Workers at Reno’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center protested proposed cuts to the VA that they said would harm California and Nevada veterans. Photograph Source: Bob Conrad / THIS IS RENO, May 30, 2025 The new leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in...
Dorothy Shea, interim US representative to the UN, vetoed a resolution for a permanent ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian aid for Gaza on June 5th, 2025 – Photo via US mission to the UN. After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western...
Photo by Brad Ritson Having failed to stop the horrific violations of international law by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank, international law will try a new approach to stop the scourges of war. A just approved special tribunal will charge Russian leaders responsible...
Anti-Imperialist cartoon published in Life Magazine, 1899. Public Domain. The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers...
Image by Ömer Faruk Yıldız. The decision resonated as shocking for all sides. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose entire war strategy hinges on the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, unilaterally decided on May 19 to allow “immediate” food entry to the...
Tocador de laúd grotesco, Jacques Callot,1621. “If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.” – Steven Wright + What’s happening here? 1. A hunter-killer team raid in Fallujah 2. An ICE raid on a taqueria in Minneapolis, MN + We were told...
Image by Emad El Byed. I remember writing about Eid in Gaza two years ago during the genocide, feeling my heart break as I expressed the bittersweet feelings we endured during that time. Now, I write these words from a different place—far from the appalling sounds of...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Saner voices in the U.S. media have been appropriately appalled by President Trump referencing the word “genocide” while claiming that violent persecution of white farmers in South Africa was driving them to flee....
Entrance to a forested homeless camp, outside Bend, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest — or else face a...
Photo by Lee Lawson On May 23rd, with several strokes of his pen, President Trump issued orders that would roll back US energy policy about 50 years. On that day, Trump signed five Executive Orders (EOs): Restoring Gold Standard Science; Ordering the Reform of the...
Dorothy Shea, interim US representative to the UN, vetoed a resolution for a permanent ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian aid for Gaza on June 5th, 2025 – Photo via US mission to the UN. After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western...
Photo by Brad Ritson Having failed to stop the horrific violations of international law by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank, international law will try a new approach to stop the scourges of war. A just approved special tribunal will charge Russian leaders responsible...