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USA: the Liberal/Progressive/Left Has Destroyed Itself

It  took just one 4 page memo to annihilate 18 months of relentless, inexorable, nonstop lies. The Dems idiot plan has backfired making Trump more powerful than ever. Was Russiagate the Deep State’s conspiracy against Trump or the Deep State’s…

The world’s most dangerous document hits the front pages…

Did you see the in-depth coverage today on top of your news media? By Jan Oberg No it didn’t. The mainstream media are totally irresponsible in their priorities. At the moment of writing, five hours after the world’s most dangerous…

The Stateless of the Union: Trump’s War on Immigrants

President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. It was to be his clarion call to bipartisanship. Instead, under the guise of a compromise position on the fate of nearly 800,000 DACA (Deferred Action for…

The US has military bases in 80 countries. All of them must close.

US bases are wreaking havoc to the health and well-being of communities across the world. By Alice Slater originally published in The Nation, here. On the weekend of Martin Luther King Day, Baltimore University fittingly hosted more than 200 activists in…

Fabricating a fig Leaf of Democracy in Egypt

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali, A fig leaf of democracy is being developed in Egypt amid persecution of opposition, mass executions and imposition of state of emergency to give wide powers to suppress all kind of dissent of a quazi-military government…

Lies, Damn Lies, and Nuclear Posture Reviews

By David Swanson Did you hear the one about the “safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent”? There is, of course, nothing safe or secure about producing, maintaining, or threatening to use nuclear weapons. Nor is there evidence that they have…

Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review Is a Dangerous Step Backward

By Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy | lcnp.org The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) released today at the Pentagon ignores international legal obligations of the United States and increases the risks of nuclear war. Prepared by the Department of Defense in…

Canada’s North Shore Traffic Congestion: A Cataclysmically Frayed Rope

Vancouver and its North Shores are considered among the worst congested areas in Canada if not North America. A recent column in the North Shore News by Jonathan Wilkinson, Member of Parliament for North Vancouver (“A Promising Step Forward on…

What Military Bashing Teacher Got Right

By David Swanson A high school teacher is no longer teaching, and is receiving threats, because of how he spokeabout the U.S. military. To read the news reports, you’d think that all he said was that people who join the…

The Post should be viewed by current editors of The Post

I was afraid that The Post would give us a Hollywood film version of the publication of the Pentagon Papers and manage never to say what was in the Pentagon Papers. I was afraid it would be turned into a…

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