
Election 2016 – A Limey’s View
By Jeremy Sare.
What has amazed the British public regarding the forthcoming US Presidential election is the seemingly unending degree that Trump’s outrageous statements have consistently failed to impact on his polling numbers. [...]

Trump and Clinton Tied in Polls?
By Stephen Lendman.
Some new polls show both candidates virtually tied. Others still show Clinton ahead. With two months to go before the November 8 elections, momentum may swing back and forth several times or more.
Poll results depend [...]

Kaepernick, Sports, Politics, the Anthem, the Pledge, and Schools
By Alan Singer.
I am a native New Yorkers so I have hated San Francisco sports teams since 1957 when the baseball Giants slinked away to the West Coast. But San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick is forcing me to [...]

Is the G20 the Real Security Council?
By Julian French.
Is the G20 the real Security Council? Over the past two days the heads of state and government of the G20 (Group of Twenty) top world economies met in Hangzhou in China to discuss a whole host of weighty topics. [...]

Clinton’s Excuses Fall Outside the Realm of Plausible Deniability
By Frank Salvato.
The credibility of our government has been marginalized, and increasingly so for decades. The agenda-driven politicization of departments and agencies – government entities that are supposed to serve the people [...]

Brexit: How Hard Can it Be?
By Julian French.
This summer I successfully undertook three major projects. First, under the command of the Supreme Authority here I decorated a bedroom. Second, working closely with a much esteemed friend and colleague I finished [...]

Brzezinski’s Ruse: American empire is dead, China and Russia take over
By Jeff Berwick.
Zbigniew Brzezinski has written an article in The American Interest titled “Towards a Global Realignment” that has received a tremendous amount of attention on the internet, along with much gloating.
Brzezinski [...]

An Inventory of South American Demographics
By Donna Welles.
Venezuela and Brazil are struggling currently with political upheaval. The Venezuelan opposition party has announced a large march this week protesting the government of President Nicolas Maduro and the President [...]

Did Putin and Erdogan have a deal on the Syrian crisis?
By Fuad Shahbazov.
On August 9, presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the first time held an official meeting in St. Petersburg after the failed coup attempt in Turkey and deteriorated relations over the downed Su-24 [...]

Putin prepares for nuclear war just week after Germany prepares for attack
By Jeff Berwick.
We have recently written about how Angela Merkel in Germany has encouraged her citizens to begin stockpiling food and provisions to protect themselves in the event of an “attack”.
Since, in the last week, [...]

Trump and the Limited Liability Company He Keeps
By Allen Schmertzler.
With less than 80 days until election time, a clear and present danger, oops, I mean pattern, has absolutely emerged. The powerful media world of the right-wing proprietors of conspiracies is sick, toxic, [...]

The EU Migrant Ferry Service
By Julian French.
The website of the EU External Action Service states that the “mission core mandate” of the EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia “…is to undertake systematic efforts to identify, capture and dispose of vessels [...]

Pakistan: The Question of Afghan Refugees
By Ijaz Khan.
The government of Pakistan has extended the stay of Afghan refugees by another six months. There are criticisms of the decision from two opposite sides. One side, which appears to be more popular and also voiced [...]

Socio-Cultural String Theory: A New Social “Theory of Everything”
By Barack Obama Mandela.
For some years now, the world of physics has been abuzz with a focus on what is called “The Theory of Everything”. This quest for a unification theory has deep historical roots. This essay launches [...]

Why President Hillary Clinton Will Need Bernie’s “Political Revolution” to Get Anything Done
By Robert Reich.
It looks increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton, a self-described “progressive who likes to get things done,” will have her chance starting next January. But how much that’s progressive will she actually be [...]

KKK Grand Dragon says he supports Hillary Clinton in video
By Jim Kouri
The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has received more than $20,000 in donations from members of the Ku Klux Klan, according to a well-known member of the hate group. Will Quigg, a KKK Grand Dragon, announced on March [...]

Does the Democratic Party Have a Progressive Platform―and Does It Matter?
By Lawrence Wittner.
Dr. Lawrence Wittner (http://www.lawrenceswittner.com) is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. His latest book is a satirical novel about university corporatization and rebellion, What’s Going On [...]

Jewish settlements are legal
By Yoram Ettinger.
The misperceptions, misrepresentations and ignorance surrounding the general attitude toward the legal status of Jewish settlements in the disputed area of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), reflects the general [...]

The Death of Progressivism and Israel
By Barry Shaw.
In my book “Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism” I detail the discovery of a new strain of anti-Semitism that I noticed in Europe, namely the urge by haters to drive a wedge between the local Jew and [...]

Capitalism Works, If Government Would Just Get Out Of The Way
By Richard Larsen.
As a matter of fact, according to the Small Business Administration, small businesses represent 99 percent of all employer firms, employ half of all private-sector employees, pay 45 percent of total [...]