Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
By William Blum.
For 50 years I’ve been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience.
To my great surprise, when I recently wrote [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a Black Man
By Barack Obama Mandela.
I believe that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is figuratively a black man.
I am the same age as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In addition, Trudeau and I have similar educational achievements. Yet he [...]
One City Is Following Through on Protests of Confederate Monuments
By David Swanson.
Charlottesville is a diverse, enlightened, and progressive college town in Virginia with its public spaces dominated by war memorials, in particular memorials to Confederate soldiers not from Charlottesville who represent [...]
Obama and Clinton Co-Founders of ISIS?
By Jon Kofas.
On 10 August 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused president Barak Hussein Obama and Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of co-founding the jihadist rebel organization ISIS (Islamic State) [...]
Edward Gibbon “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
By Julian French.
The West is in trouble. Whatever one might think about President Erdogan’s post-coup power grab he understands the ebb and flow of power. This week Erdogan went to St Petersburg to meet Russia’s President [...]
Republican Party Must Fully Repudiate Trump To Have Any Credibility
By Peter Rosenstein.
A Democrat, who is an strong supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, writing this column may seem counter-productive but I believe in a strong two-party system. One in which both Party’s [...]
Syria is the New Chechnya
By Julian French.
August always fills me with geopolitical foreboding. With the democracies on vacation it is this month that is traditionally the moment for dirty geopolitics. This August is doubly concerning because it coincides with [...]
The Wrath Of The Khans
By Allen Schmertzler.
To boldly go where no one would dare, until this election of 2016. Two weeks of the slickest show in two cities are over. The candidates are crowned, millions have been spent, one bazillion red white and [...]
Duplicitous Reactions to GOP Convention – Non-Endorsements and Plagiarism
By Richard Larsen.
During the Republican Convention this week what was not said drew more ire from some than what was said. Ted Cruz in his magnificent speech on freedom and our founding principles failed to say the “E” word (endorse) [...]
One Law for Me and Another for Thee – Hillary & Elitists Above the Law
By Richard Larsen.
It seems ironic that the day after we celebrated our 240 years of Independence, that we would witness the complete collapse of the rule of law in our fair republic. Tuesday it was announced by the FBI [...]
Who is Fethullalh Gulen? A modernizer or a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
By Jame M. Dorsey.
Believers say he preaches a new, modern form of Islam. Critics charge he is a power hungry wolf in sheep’s clothing preparing to convert secular Turkey into an Islamic republic; a conspirator [...]
Europe after the Brexit, NATO summit in Warsaw and Turkish geopolitical vertigo
By Anis Bey.
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU. The Brexit after-shock is still to reverberate around.
In one other EXIT, Sartre’s [...]
The Interesting Support for the Chinese Position
By Roie Yallinek.
“The international arbitration will not be able to resolve the issue, because one side has been pushing hard for the compulsory arbitration, in an attempt to deny the other side sovereignty… this is unacceptable.” [...]
Nice – Standing with our first and oldest ally
By Rick Francona.
I was busy writing an article about an American proposal for combined American and Russian air operations against the al-Qa’idah affiliated Jabhat al-Nusrah (The Victory Front) and the self-proclaimed Islamic [...]
Summer Convention Of Discontent
By Allen Schmertzler.
“ Little Murders” was a 1967 play written by the “cartoonist” Jules Feiffer, later became a movie, directed by Alan Arkin. The work masterfully depicts an American society spinning [...]
China; Might or Right: EU; Right or Might?
By Julian French.
Alphen, Netherlands. 13 July. Geopolitics is a permanent power struggle between symmetry and asymmetry. There is certainly a certain symmetry in the delicious coincidence of the launch of the new EU Global Strategy and [...]
The implications of the Britain Brexit on China
By Roie Yellinek.
Last year, during a visit to the United Kingdom, Chinese president Xi Jinping called on Britain to remain in the European Union. “China hopes to see a prosperous Europe and a united EU, and hopes Britain, [...]
A Manufactured Divide Ends In, ‘I Want to Kill White People’
By Frank Salvato.
The racial divide in this country, as it exists today, is completely manufactured. It is manufactured by the political and activist class, and for reasons symbiotic to one another.
Politicians need to divide our [...]
Is Donald Trump The Leader of American Christians?
By Barack Obama Mandela.
This past Easter, at least 65 Christians in Lahore, Pakistan were killed by a militant suicide bomber. A faction of the Taliban that has declared allegiance to the Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Since [...]
Sanders to Endorse Clinton, Betraying Loyal Supporters
By Stephen Lendman.
Sanders earlier said he’ll support Clinton if she’s nominated, a de facto endorsement by any standard.
Unnamed party insiders now say on July 12, at a New Hampshire campaign event, he’ll make it [...]