As-of now, 80% of the 100 U.S. Senators — that’s 80 U.S. Senators — are co-sponsors of the bill that was written by the U.S. Senate’s arch-neoconservative (i.e., pro-MIC or pro Military Industrial Complex) U.S. Senator, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to blockade shipments of...
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Moral Cyclone in Texas
When you think of Feb. 14 do you think of Valentine’s Day? On Feb. 14, 2022, the University of Texas at Austin Faculty Council adopted a fateful resolution affirming that “educators, not politicians, should make decisions about teaching and learning” (doc. 19141)....
Domestic Violence Is Part of What War Creates
As Stacy Bannerman has been telling us for decades, the U.S. military has a domestic violence problem. So do some other — and I strongly suspect all — militaries. The Pentagon has long known about the significantly increased risk of domestic violence by combat-exposed...
Smart and Dangerous
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The Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers
Here was another chance – at least as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw it – of threading one set of events with another. It’s all part of the Israeli security state’s playbook: any killing of Jews or its citizens, wherever they might be, will have a...
Trump Calls For Investigations of Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah and U2’s Bono for Endorsing Harris
Donald Trump went off the rails again early in the morning of Monday, May 19, calling for a “major investigation” of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and other celebrities who endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, accusing them of taking illegal payments...
Elon Musk’s Worst Nightmare Is Happening (But Not How You Think)
Tesla was once the undisputed king of electric vehicles but BYD is now the King. In this video, we break down how China’s BYD dethroned Elon Musk’s Tesla to become the world’s #1 EV manufacturer. From dominating domestic sales to overtaking Tesla in global deliveries,...
The Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza Must End Now
The horrific images of children starving in Gaza, due to Israel’s cruel, inhumane blockade of all humanitarian aid since early March, shocks the world’s conscience. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently announced plan to distribute aid, while forcing...
Memorial Day: It’s Not About the Dead Soldiers but About Glorifying War
Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war. Rather than being haunted by the ghosts of war,...
An “In” on Getting in Small Town Newspapers
Thousand-word Opinion Editorials are a fine thing to pen, and you can cover a lot of ground in this amount of verbiage. Normally, local rags limit letters to the editor to 300 words, and alas, in this sound bite sort of scrolling-on-the-screen culture, going over a...
Justice Demands Action against Zionism, not Hypocritical Rhetoric from the States of the “West”
Just as Nazi Germany sought the total elimination of Jewish life, the state of Israel, with full U.S. support, is now openly pursuing the systematic annihilation of the people of Gaza, the acceleration of mass displacement in the West Bank, and the denial of...
Super Rich Oligarchs
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