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New Revelations Emerge on How Donald Trump Killed 400,000 (or More) Americans

David Corn Washington, DC, Bureau Chief, Bio | Follow photo above: President Donald Trump at a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, on March 22, 2020, with Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vice President Mike Pence, and FEMA head Peter Gaynor. Patrick Semansky/AP WN: The concluding lines […]

Donald Trump’s new reality:

By George T. Conway III January 22, 2021 WN: George Conway knows American law and history, clearly has done his homework, and makes eminent sense–at least to one fairly deficient in the above! 🙂  In my Restorative Justice work, there was no substitute for accountability, however much the scales invariably tilt towards grace and truth […]

The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed

When it comes to foreign policy, the president’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it is naïveté. Story by Tom McTague and Peter Nicholas Photo illustrations by Rohan Hande October 20, 2020 Global WN: This analysis is fascinating and insightful. While one celebrates America’s loss of hegemonic power, its sting […]

Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire World

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research, October 24, 2019 “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful […]

Donald Trump’s Iran Humiliation

U.S. Military bases and Iran photo above: infiniteunknown.net Oct 08, 2019 Opinion | TD originals by Scott Ritter WN: One rightly asks, in light of the map showing U.S. military bases encircling Iran, “Who is the aggressor/terrorist here?” excerpts: Exactly 17 months have passed since President Donald Trump precipitously withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, […]

Donald Trump Is Finished

Sep 30, 2019 TD originals Bill Blum photo above: President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence at left, takes part in an Armed Forces event at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., on Monday. (Evan Vucci / AP) WN: Of all the vile presidents I have lived through, Trump is clearly the worst: as I […]

Under Donald Trump, drone strikes far exceed Obama’s numbers

By S. E. Cupp May 8, 2019 photo above: In this 2013 file photo, an X47-B Navy drone grabs the wire as it lands aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush off the Virginia coast. | AP Photo/Steve Helber WN: This is, I believe, the first article I have highlighted about Trump’s […]

Donald Trump Is the Damn Emergency

Donald Trump Is the Damn Emergency By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout January 9, 2019 WN: I hate now mentioning the guy’s name on the website, his actions so beneath the otherwise modicum of dignity every human is accorded, created in the image of God. The article highlighted below captures deftly the political reality south of […]

How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump

To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant. By Michael Massing April 19, 2018 illustration above by Sabine Formane WN: This article draws a fascinating direct line from Martin Luther in the early 16th century to Donald Trump in the 21st. There is likewise a fascinating/tragic direct line to be drawn […]

Everything Just Got Worse for Donald Trump

WN: The video is indeed hilarious. And millions around the planet feel smug satisfaction at seeing the Trump Gang of Thieves beginning to get their due. Few doubted that day would come. All knew it was long “over-due” – in Trump’s case, about 70 years and counting! I once asked an avid Trump supporter if […]

Fake News and Donald Trump’s War on Truth

Published on Friday, February 10, 2017 by Truthdig by Sonali Kolhatkar photo above: President Trump with chief of staff Reince Priebus, center, adviser Kellyanne Conway and members of the press aboard Air Force One in January. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP) an excerpt: “Fake news” and “alternative facts” are hardly new concepts. Right-wing websites, […]

Jeremy Scahill on Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial Complex

Posted on Feb 2, 2017 In an interview with acTVism, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill discussed the connection between President Trump’s Cabinet picks and the military-industrial complex. Scahill also addressed the history of anti-war movements and Germany’s role in the United States’ “war on terror.” He examined the significance of the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and questioned […]

Donald Trump Intentionally Lies to Us

He has no mandate. That fact has so unhinged Trump that he is shaming himself and his office by promulgating obvious lies. Picture above: President-elect Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower, on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) By John Nichols January 24, […]

The world vs Donald Trump

Dear friends, The unimaginable has happened. President Trump. And worse, there are Trumps in every town. Threatening all our democracies. What’s most important now is to build a global movement to stop them. Over 2 million of us have signed the open letter, below, from the world to Trump, and it’s been covered across major […]

Nasty Women: Donald Trump, the Greatest Victim in the History of the World

Tomgram: Ann Jones, Donald Trump’s Open Carry | TomDispatch By Ann Jones an excerpt: Donald Trump grabbed a new lifeline. Speaking at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 15th, he raised a hand as if to take an oath and declared: “I am a victim!” The great business tycoon, the one and only […]

Donald Trump’s Campaign Has Been Vile and Offensive—and We Should Thank Him for That

How Trump stopped the gaslighting of America. By Matthew Arnold October 26 9:07 photo above: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, October 10, 2016, in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) an excerpt: It’s quite possible that a decade from now, we’ll look back on Donald Trump’s norms-transgressing, concession-refusing […]

Donald Trump’s Apocalypse Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Whatever happens in November, the forecast is more stormy weather ahead. By John Feffer October 13, 2016 1:30 photo above: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to a campaign rally at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Tuesday, August 9, 2016. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) an excerpt: In the United States, meanwhile, Trump’s economic […]

Donald Trump Is a Worse Crook Than Bernie Madoff

Madoff only scammed his rich clients. Trump could scam us all. By Nomi Prins September 29, 2016 photo above: Gage Skidmore an excerpt: Trump vs. Madoff, The Scorecard Trump is much richer than Madoff ever was, though we have no idea by how much. Forbes puts his wealth at $3.7 billion. Trump says it’s $10 […]

Henry A. Giroux | Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age

Monday, 08 August 2016 00:00 photo above: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a crowd during his campaign rally at Windham High School in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 6, 2016. (Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times) I have recently returned to reading Leo Lowenthal, particularly his insightful essay, “Terror’s Atomization of Man,” first […]

Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are Bad

Wired: Author: Issie Lapowsky  Business Date of Publication: 08.03.16. Donald Trump is incredibly dangerous! PERIOD. an excerpt: This morning on his show Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said that according to one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisors, the Republican nominee recently asked why the United States can’t use nuclear weapons. “Three times he asked […]

Cold War, Détente, Neo-McCarthyism, and Donald Trump

August 2, 2016 By Stephen F. Cohen What’s going is that the United States and its neocon war hawks are flirting dangerously with the possibility of real war with Russia, as Michael Klare and Stephen Cohen have noted. As Ignatius certainly knows but most Americans may not, the United States was deeply involved in agitating […]

Part 1: Michael Moore on Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Brexit (06/10/16)

Published on Jul 5, 2016 Michael Moore was in Britain and speaking with British journalist Owen Jones (The Guardian) on June 10th, 2016. To quote Moore: ‘Trump is like the sound of dying dinosaurs’. Please also see this about Michael Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 11/9, release date September 21, 2018:

Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech Reconfirmed His Fascist Authoritarianism

Friday, 22 July 2016 05:14 MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT an excerpt:   “Law and order” were the key code words for Nixon’s Southern strategy that finalized the conversion of the deep South from voting Democratic in presidential elections to voting Republican. The words sent the message that Nixon would seek to keep […]

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

The Political Scene July 25, 2016 Issue By Jane Mayer image above: “I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.”  Illustration by Javier Jaén “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and […]

The Seas Are Rising Around Donald Trump

He may deny global warming, but it’s still threatening to swamp his properties. image above: Trump: Helga Esteb/Shutterstock; Bear: FloridaStock/Shutterstock an excerpt: Scientists have long expected sea level rise on the southeast Florida coast to occur faster than the global average, advancing rapidly on barrier islands and beaches. The low-lying coastal areas are exposed to […]

Tomgram: John Feffer, Donald Trump and America B

Posted by John Feffer at 3:58pm, June 26, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: America B has a fondness for Donald Trump and his almost childlike audacity. (Gosh, kids say the darndest things!) Right now, his fans are attached to an individual, rather than a platform or a party. Many of his supporters […]

Tomgram: Ann Jones, Donald Trump Has the Traits of a Wife Abuser and Women Know It

Posted by Ann Jones at 8:01am, June 14, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch There are two other articles I’ve posted about Trump’s bullying ways here: Bully, and here: Bully Trump. There is a related article about Donald Trump and potential running mate Newt Gingrich here. an excerpt: In fact, Donald J. Trump perfectly fits […]

Donald Trump and the Rise of the Far Right on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Wednesday, 22 June 2016 00:00 By Ryan Harvey, Truthout | News Analysis photo above: Donald Trump speaks with supporters at a campaign rally at Fountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona, on March 16, 2016. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) an excerpt: A Fading Global Hegemony While steeped in their complicated domestic histories, the rise of this new […]

Reflections on “God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group”

By Robert O’Harrow Jr. October 25, 2021 image above: Nick Ogonosky WN: There is a telling quote in the article highlighted below: “We’ve got an amazing opportunity here,” [Jim DeMint, a former senator and tea party favorite] told them. “And it’s incredible with this president, who is the last person I ever thought would promote […]

Trump Extremists Brought Numerous Guns on January 6, Evidence Shows

Mark Follman, Dan Friedman, Ryan Little, and Sam Van Pykeren September 30, 2021 photo above: Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP; Official Congressional Directory WN: And so it goes . . . Tragic. Sick. Dangerous. Deadly. Some family members are speaking out against some of the rally’s ringleaders: Republican Accountability Project, which has been calling out […]

There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming

Ideas by David Frum July 13, 2021 image above: Adam Maida / The Atlantic WN: Sobering and eerily prophetic. Please also see the video below, August 5, 2021. Of it, we read: Right-wing FOX News host Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary and praising that nation’s hardline policies. We discuss what’s really going on with […]

Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed

By Charlie Savage May 1, 2021 photo above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature of the sprawling war on terrorism, raising legal and policy questions that remain in flux. Credit… Janis Laizans/Reuters WN: Of course the use of drones–as any aerial bombing–invariably murders civilians–often vast numbers. Two classic studies […]

How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—

“He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry.” Mark Follman March+April 2021 Issue photo above: Nate Gowdy WN: Trump continues to inspire hatred and acts of violence worldwide. His is the height of White Grievance Politics–and so tragic for the millions of victims who fall prey to such xenophobia. A rewording […]

America Must Understand How Bad Trump Truly Was in Order to See What’s Coming

By Jake Jackson March 24, 2021 image source: Blog for Arizona WN: The situation in the U.S. continues to be dire, as it teeters on the brink of fascism. excerpts: Seldom do you come across a man who changed so much in so little time. His efforts normalised authoritarian tendencies, legitimised fascism, and shaped the […]

There Is No Christian Case for Trump

January 30, 2020 Peter Wehner Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC photo above: President Trump speaking to evangelical supporters in Miami, Florida on January 3, 2020.Eva Marie Uzcategui / Reuters WN: There are multiple reasons for critiquing “Christian” behaviour in America. Especially egregious is white Evangelical embrace of Trump. In this […]

Killing Nora: The Real Reason Trump Should Have Been Impeached

January 22, 2021 by Nicky Reid cartoon: too true! WN: What is true of the Criminal Justice System is also “too true” in general of our living “normal lives” in the West. And it extends: to us in the West aware enough of what being in league/lockstep with Western powers (Five Eyes, NATO, NORAD etc., […]

National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism”

National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism” The president’s post-election incitement expands on a tactic he has long used: stochastic terrorism. Mark Follman National Affairs Editor Bio | Follow Politics photo above: A person in a gas mask protests Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic policies at the Michigan State Capitol in May 2020Paul Sancya/AP December […]

Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs

Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs by Adam Hudson, Truthout Published December 5, 2020 WN: This excerpt from the article highlighted is devastatingly the case, one that gives the lie to the strictly compartmentalized/schizophrenic “decency” of Biden: Where does that leave Biden and where does he stand? Biden has […]

Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election?

Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election? I’m a Democrat, they’re Republicans. Healing the political divide will be America’s next challenge. Updated 11/13/2020 By Jenn Merritt, Special To HuffPost     WN: The article highlighted below holds special sadness for me, given a similar concern in our family with some […]

Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Trump’s Divine Fate

Posted by Ariel Dorfman  October 22, 2020. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: In a word: brilliant! More so: incredibly legitimate! Trump like other (would-be) tinpot despots, is a Self turned downwards on a (seeming) endless spiral of Evildoing that also seems to know no bounds. But if every saint has a past, every sinner […]

Trump’s Wild Lies Down the Election Homestretch Are Not Crazy

The president isn’t nuts—he’s trying to make you nuts. Disinformation October 19, 2020 Mark Follman National Affairs Editor Bio | Follow Mother Jones illustration; Chris Kleponis/CNP/Zuma WN: But what about his crazed cultic followers?! Of whom I have two close relatives . . . Deplorables, yes! But what else? . . . excerpts: What can […]

‘He’s Destroyed Conservatism’: The Republican Case Against Trump’s GOP

Stuart Stevens was a winning GOP operative. Now he feels terrible about what he’s done to the country. By MICHAEL GRUNWALD Michael Grunwald is a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine. 08/19/2020 photo above: AP/Patrick Semansky [NOTE: It took an article by Bob Ekblad (Blind and Deaf) in Clarion Journal, noted below, to occasion a revision […]

‘Republican Voters Against Trump’ Launches to Make Biden President

Meghan Roos May 25, 2020 photo above: @RepublicanAgainstTrump   WN: Wow! This is immensely hopeful! Though Biden is nonetheless a neoliberal tragedy . . . See “An Open Letter To Joe Biden“. excerpt: Republican voters who do not want to see President Donald Trump win reelection in the fall are coming together as part of […]

A Top Obama-Biden Aide Slams Trump for Missing the Moment for “Economic Dignity”

A Top Obama-Biden Aide Slams Trump for Missing the Moment for “Economic Dignity” May 18, 2020 David Corn Washington, DC, Bureau Chief Bio | Follow photo above: Susan Walsh/AP WN: This is lovely to hear. Everyone on the Planet yearns for “economic dignity”. Of course, this is the very essence of “democratic socialism”. excerpt: Gene […]

Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP

Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP Apr 28, 2020 by NCR Editorial Staff photo above: New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrates Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral April 12 during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Jeenah Moon) WN: The article highlighted below shows American Catholic leadership in relation to Trump and his party […]

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus by Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes of . photo above: © Erin Schaff/The New York Times “Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion,” President Trump said […]

N.J. comedian’s riff on Trump’s coronavirus response goes viral

WN: This outstanding riff on Trump’s Easter, God and Jesus sadly (for America, for Planet Earth) nails it! The memes too nail it about World-Loud-Mouth-in-Chief. Please also see the article highlighted below. excerpt: A New Jersey comedian’s dead-on impersonation of President Donald Trump vowing to move past the coronavirus crisis by Easter is going viral. […]

Many Evangelicals Excuse Anything Trump Does —

By Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Published November 30, 2019 WN: This kind of veneration is not only despicable, it is beyond heretical into a twilight zone of anti-religion: and profoundly anti-Christ. Please also see the daft: “‘An Idiotic False Equivalency’: GOP Rep. Loudermilk Implies Trump Impeachment Worse Than Trial of Jesus Christ“. excerpts: [su_dropcap size=”5″]E[/su_dropcap]nergy Secretary […]

American Carnage: a masterful must-read on Trump’s Republican takeover

Tim Alberta of Politico has written a compelling, alarming and scoop-heavy history of the fall of the party of Lincoln Lloyd Green Sat 13 Jul 2019 photo above: Mike Pence and Paul Ryan applaud as Donald Trump delivers his first address to Congress in February 2017. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool/EPA WN: Trump is beyond vile, […]

‘You’re excluding people that look like me’: Megan Rapinoe’s message to Trump

US soccer captain again rejects White House visit, saying team does not want to be ‘corrupted’ Sarah Marsh Wed 10 Jul 2019 photo above: Megan Rapinoe and team during the Broadway ticker tape parade. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters  WN: Bottom line: Trump is Scapegoater-in-Chief — the Ultimately Deplorable Ugly American — as are unwittingly or cynically […]

Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Published March 14, 2019 photo above: CNN Politics WN: The article highlighted below describes a continuing horror story… Lord, have mercy. Then, I must confess that this article makes me hopping furious for another reason! I’m livid about the majority of […]

Catholic leaders resist Trump’s ‘national emergency’ plan to fund border wall

Politics & Society Dispatches Catholic leaders resist Trump’s ‘national emergency’ plan to fund border wall Kevin Clarke February 15, 2019   photo above: President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez […]

Is Trump’s National Emergency (ANOTHER) Step Toward Fascism?

Is Trump’s National Emergency (ANOTHER)1 Step Toward Fascism? By Mark Bray, Truthout February 15, 2019 photo above: VALENCIA, SPAIN – MARCH 19, 2017: Photo with blurred background Ninot sculpture representing of Donald Trump placing a brick on the wall with mexico   WN: The article highlighted is a balanced response to the question above. excerpts: […]

New Pro-Life Movement: ‘No’ to Trump; ‘yes’ to atheists

New Pro-Life Movement: ‘No’ to Trump; ‘yes’ to atheists Jan 17, 2019 by Peter Feuerherd Justice People photo above: Aimee Murphy, executive director of Rehumanize International, tells a group of pro-life activists at the 2018 March for Life Jan. 19 in Washington that it’s important for people to know that being pro-life means being against […]

Escape From the Trump Cult

Escape from the Trump Cult Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it? By Alexander Hurst December 13, 2018 Illustration by Zach Meyer WN: The very well-researched article highlighted below is fascinating, not because about Trump, but about deprogramming cultists from fundamental […]

Trump’s Massive Corruption Exposé

Trump’s Massive Corruption Exposé WN: The sooner the All-In-One Ultimate Ugly American, Planet Enemy Number One and Supreme Narcissist is off the World Stage, the more safely we can all breathe again… Not that the brutal American Empire will fall because of Trump’s exiting Stage Alt-Right. But it’s for the moment a good start…   […]

Trump’s War on Regulation Is Just Another Form of Trickle-Down Economics

Aug 14, 2018 by Robert Reich photo above: Economist Robert Reich. (YouTube screen grab) WN: True to expectation, an acquaintance immediately blamed California’s 2018 wildfires on environmental extremists… He is an absolute climate change/anthropocentric climate disruption (ACD) denier offering not a shred of evidence but constant bombastic fundamentalist pronouncements that brook no discussion, no questioning1… […]

Melania Trump trolls her husband

photo above: First lady Melania Trump with President Trump at the White House on Monday. (Andrew Harnik/AP) by Karen Tumulty, May 7, 2018 Email the author WN: Way to go Melania! And she has just spoken out in favour of LeBron James whose intelligence Trump publicly ridiculed. excerpts: It may be that the most effective […]

HERE’S WHAT RUSSIA `HAS’ ON TRUMP

  Reader’s Editorials Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Russia WN: The article highlighted below does not surprise… It is also no surprise that such information rolls off supporters’ backs like water off a duck’s…1 Mother Jones published recently “The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump“, that tells a very […]

Trump is now dangerous – that makes his mental health a matter of public interest

Bandy Lee This world authority in psychiatry, consulted by US politicians, argues that the president’s mental fitness deserves scrutiny Sun 7 Jan 2018 00.05 GMT Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 18.35 GMT WN: Today in Rwanda, we discussed why many African leaders have destroyed home and people over whom they rule(d).  When traits such as […]

And the Trumpie goes to . . .

By Dana Milbank Opinion writer January 5 at 7:48 PM WN: despite what the article highlights below, there is someone I know well enough who accepts every Trump claim as Gospel truth. This staggers comprehension… excerpts: Of all the scandalous revelations in the Michael Wolff book, the most revealing may be the one about the […]

“Fox Evangelicals” Embrace Trump’s White Nationalism

Wednesday, 27 December 2017 07:36 BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT photo: Alan / Flickr [su_pullquote align=”right”]”But you will recognize them by their fruits.” – Jesus[/su_pullquote] WN: We know that the ultimate “fruit” is Love. From my Home page: Personal Mantra The Gospels indicate that the test case for love of God is love of […]

North Korea Nuclear Testing Tunnel Collapse, Fears of Radiation Leaks, Will Trump Resort to “Fire and Fury” Insanity?

By Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, November 02, 2017 Region: Asia, USA Theme: Media Disinformation, US NATO War Agenda In-depth Report: NORTH KOREA, Nuclear War photo above: November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Test is shot “Dog” from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotons of TNT (88 TJ). It was the first U.S. nuclear field exercise conducted with live troops […]

Forget Trump, This Huge Volcano Could Literally Wipe Out Life on Earth

If only for a moment, this story is forcing many to put the current political chaos “into perspective” by Jake Johnson, staff writer  WN: Hmmmmm!… Where is God in such a possibility? Hmmmmm! It’s not April 1st … It would be wonderful to have the Planet pull together to stop such a kind of (extremely […]

‘Shades of 1933 Germany’: Trump’s Hostile Rally Prompts Third Reich Comparisons

Former British ambassador expresses shock at president’s rhetoric as U.N. panel issues warning on Charlottesville response Published on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Common Dreams WN: Things begin to become genuinely scary. Especially in light of a former Trump advisor who warned of armed insurrection if Trump is impeached. Lord, have mercy. In the wake […]

Ex-intelligence chief – Trump’s access to nuclear codes is ‘pretty damn scary’

James Clapper questioned the US president’s ‘fitness to be in this office’ after his speech in Phoenix, joining a growing chorus of alarm over his erratic behavior Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday 23 August 2017 16.17 BST excerpts: Donald Trump’s access to the nuclear codes is “pretty damn scary”, a former US intelligence chief has said, calling Trump’s […]

Why Trump Could Be Gone Before 2020

AUGUST 18, 2017 by PAUL STREET excerpts: Increasingly, though, one really must wonder if the arch-authoritarian racist idiot Donald Trump will make it to 2020. The supreme madness and evil of the rolling atrocity that is the Insane Clown Trump presidency has just now reached a new level of bizarre and scary-weird ruling-class dysfunction. Just last […]

Denier-in-Chief Trump Should Read NOAA’s Frightening New Climate Report

With “highest concentration of CO2 in the air in 800,000 years,” how much more proof does president need? Published on Thursday, August 10, 2017 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson, staff writer photo above: The report—based on contributions from over 450 scientists from around 60 countries—is the most detailed climate assessment that has emerged from […]

Trump has taken us to the brink of nuclear war. Can he be stopped?

In previous nuclear standoffs, Trump’s predecessors knew when to hold back from further antagonising the other side. But now there is no such certainty Wednesday 9 August 2017 12.39 BST Jonathan Freedland WN: A few months ago, Germany’s Der Spiegel used an online headline about Trump and Jong un thus: “The Two Crazies with the Bomb”“. I […]

Pope Francis allies accuse Trump White House of ‘apocalyptic geopolitics’

Article vetted by the Vatican offers scathing critique of Steve Bannon, who is Catholic, the Trump White House and ‘evangelical fundamentalism’ in the US photo above: Ivanka Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump stand with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican on May 24, 2017. Evan Vucci—AP WN: Utterly appalling and […]

Trump Bet Americans Would Like His Un-Presidential Antics. He May Be Right.

Posted on Jul 15, 2017 By Neal Gabler / Moyers & Company WN: Of course nonsense about “American exceptionalism” stinks to high heaven! Always has! Most of the rest of the world is too aware of that – and increasingly so with President Ultimate American Con, President Ultimate Ugly American. (OK! I know! Christians are to love their enemies. […]

Video: “Trump Won’t Be Cancelling World War 3 After All”. #StandDownMrTrump

Mr Trump is a liar, a hypocrite and a fool By StormCloudsGathering Global Research, April 15, 2017 stormcloudsgathering.com WN: It is a towering truism in relation to Trump, that “one should never trust a liar.” If only it were that simple, and we could all go to bed tonight with full assurance that the world is safe […]

Is Trump Turning to Missile Strikes to Salvage His Failing Presidency?

Friday, April 14, 2017 By Michael Meurer, Truthout | News Analysis photo above: President Donald Trump makes a statement about the American attack on an air base in Syria, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, April 6, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) WN: Trump is a colossal failure: at being a […]

Neoliberalism in the Driver’s Seat: Trump and Ryan’s Ruling-Class Schemes

Thursday, April 06, 2017By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview photo above: House Speaker Paul Ryan looks on as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 28, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) an excerpt: Donald Trump ran a campaign to “make America great again,” promising […]

The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria

Glenn Greenwald April 7 2017, 7:43 a.m. WN: “The first casualty of war is truth“, is an adage proved invariably true throughout human history under all kinds of regimes: not least democracies. Or, as author/activist David Swanson tirelessly and convincingly argues: War Is a Lie – not only title of his most recent book, but a reality […]

Observers Warn That Syria Attack is Trump’s “Wag the Dog” Moment

Published on Friday, April 07, 2017 by Common Dreams Reports that Russia was warned about strike fuel accusations that military action was taken to distract from mounting domestic problems photo above: Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro appear in the 1997 film “Wag the Dog,” about a political consultant and a Hollywood director who construct a […]

You’re Fired! The Unemployable Trump Administration

February 23, 2017 Dana Snitzky Longreads photo above: British (Canadians) burn White House in War of 1812. (Metaphorically, would that Trudeau and Company do the same now! Then again, Trump the Arsonist is working hard on that project himself! “Give a man enough rope…”) an excerpt: The second takeaway is that Donald Trump is made […]

Trump’s anti-press conference would be funny – if it weren’t so scary

Friday 17 February 2017 15.09 GMT Richard Wolffe If Donald Trump is qualified for any job – and that’s a rather big if, based on this press conference – it’s clear that he wants to be a media critic on Fox News WN: It is extremely painful to continue to post about Donald Trump. A friend […]

John Oliver on Trump and the truth: ‘a pathological liar’

In his return to HBO, the host of Last Week Tonight dissected the troubling falsehoods in the president’s statements and exactly where they originate Guardian staff Monday 13 February 2017 23.59 GMT John Oliver has criticized reality TV star turned president Donald Trump’s rhetoric, calling him “a pathological liar”. Brilliant satire in the video embedded below. […]

Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

February 8, 2017 What the author is describing is scapegoating, ubiquitous in human cultures and history. René Girard, recently deceased, is the dominant modern theorist in this regard. For more on scapegoating violence and Girard on my website, please see amongst others this and this. (You will also see below each article  related posts highlighted.) […]

Tomgram: Engelhardt, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s The Donald in the News!

Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview) The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, But the Looting of America Hasn’t Really Begun By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 7:45am, February 7, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: Call it perfect scheduling, but just two days before his inauguration — two days, […]

Millions Will Be Harmed by Trump’s Policies, Warns Rights Advocate in Open Letter

‘As president, you will have the heavy responsibility to prevent enactment of dangerous pledges and proposals that were made in the course of the campaign’ Published on Thursday, November 24, 2016 by Common Dreams By Nika Knight, staff writer WN: Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth, subject of the article highlighted below, valid as it […]

HOW TRUMP TOOK HATE GROUPS MAINSTREAM

The full story of his connection with far-right extremists. Sarah Posner and David Neiwert Oct. 14, 2016 5:00 AM photo above: Donald J. Trump Credit Randall Hill/Reuters This is the second in-depth look at Trump and hate/white extremists that I have posted on this site. The first is here. Surely with this exposure of the […]

Will American politics survive Trump?

Sunday November 06, 2016 The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright Perhaps the most fascinating are David Frum’s comments. Frum (son of former CBC “As It Happens” personality Barbara Frum) is a long-standing Canadian/American conservative, former speech-writer for George W. Bush, and ardent Republican: who also voted already this season for Hillary Clinton! – and is […]

Trump, America, and the Abyss

November 3, 2016 4:47 p.m. By Andrew Sullivan I have decided to post a few articles warning against Trump’s America. It is that dire. The world never has seen a potential evil dictator like Trump, in terms of capacity to do evil like no other before. Period. An evil dictator heading up the most evil […]

Why would Christians vote for Trump?: Coren

It is difficult to understand how millions of evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics can still be committed to Trump and ignore or justify his repugnant actions By Michael Coren Amen! Tues., Oct. 25, 2016 an excerpt: Donald Trump is a winner. Not that he’s likely to win the election but his style, approach and entire […]

Will Trumpism, Brexit, and Geopolitical Exceptionalism Sink the Planet?

The Mounting Threat to Climate Progress Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Rise of the Right and Climate Catastrophe photo above: In his first major speech on energy, delivered in May, Donald Trump—who has called global warming a Chinese hoax—pledged to “cancel the Paris climate agreement” and scrap the various measures announced by President Obama to ensure […]

There’s a Bigger Problem at the Border Than Trump’s Proposed Wall

We live in fear of Trump’s plan for the Mexican border—not realizing that much of it already exists. By Todd Miller August 23, 2016 12:02 pm photo above: US Border Patrol agent Jerry Conlin looks out over Tijuana, Mexico, along the old border wall at the US-Mexico border ending at the base of a hill […]

The Scary History of Trump’s Second-Amendment Call to Action | The Nation

In North Carolina, we have heard this before, and lived through the bloody consequences of white terrorist rhetoric. By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II photo above: Top: Donald Trump. Bottom: A group of rioters pose outside the ruins of the Record building in Wilmington, 1898. (Top: Reuters / Carlo Allegri; bottom: Library of Congress) […]

The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview

photo above: Supporters attend a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, August 3, 2016. (Reuters / Eric Thayer) His foreign policy isn’t an alternative to US empire. It’s a cruder rendition of it. By John Feffer AUGUST 10, 2016 an excerpt: AN EXCEPTIONAL RULER Let […]

Trump’s Rape Rhetoric Appeals to Male Anxiety

photo above: Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 22, 2016. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Saturday, 30 July 2016 00:00 By Nicholas Powers, Truthout | Op-Ed an excerpt: In 1989, the same year as the Central Park Five case, Donald Trump assaulted […]

Facing Down Trump’s Demagoguery: Lessons From Weimar Germany

Friday, 22 July 2016 00:00 By Charles Derber, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Donald Trump points to his vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, on the final night of the Republican National Convention, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21, 2016. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) an excerpt: Donald Trump […]

WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS?

At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges. image above: Trump’s energy flows out of him, as if channelled in thousands of micro wires, and enters the minds of his followers. ILLUSTRATION BY SEYMOUR CHWAST  AMERICAN CHRONICLES JULY 11 & 18, 2016 ISSUE By George Saunders an excerpt: From the beginning, America has […]

Evangelicals Embrace Profane, Bigoted, Thrice-Divorced Trump

Wednesday, 22 June 2016 08:14 BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT photo above: Michael Valdon an excerpt: The Post report also noted that “Catholic conservative Robert George, former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and a Princeton professor, declined to attend the meeting, saying that while he may think even lower of […]

The Foreign Consequences of Trump’s Racism

Published on June 18th, 2016 | by Guest by Paul R. Pillar an excerpt: Donald Trump is waging the most explicitly racist major U.S. presidential campaign since the third-party candidacy of segregationist George C. Wallace in 1968. The exploitation of bias based on ethnicity or religion has taken more subtle forms in other election campaigns […]

Re-issuing: How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

by Brendan O’Connor August 8, 2017 WN: I decided to republish this article of seven years ago. The supreme haughty superiority of Christians who just know all the massive, irrefutable science about human-caused climate change — as the massive scientific support for the Darwinian theory of evolution — are all a big hoax, “because the […]

Comments On: Amazing Disgrace

By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one that said far more about Christian Nationalist sentiment than the good reverend knew: “We put God right at the center of the White House.” —Paula White, speaking at an Evangelicals for Trump event at Solid […]

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020, 356 pages WN: This is one of the few times I also posted a book review to this Blog. This is a highly disturbing–and informative–book. In an interview with Religion […]

Focus On: Mapping Militarism 2020

by David Swanson May 6, 2020 WN: The article highlighted below represents a brilliant and multiplex presentation of the worldwide realities of the premier world blight of militarism. One could call it the Ultimate Virus, the Unremitting Pandemic–that few even recognize for the Monstrous World Nightmare it is. The other day I was forwarded an […]

Consider: “U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder”

By David Leonhardt Nov. 8, 2021 photo above: Image by torstensimon from Pixabay WN: This remains consistent everywhere: vaccinations save lives. See too: Partisan Gap in Covid Deaths Growing Thanks to Right-Wing Vaccine Disinformation. We read: The fact that heavily Trump counties had over three times more Covid-19 deaths in October than heavily Biden counties […]

Walter Wink & “The Myth of Redemptive Violence”

November 8, 2021 by Robert Koehler WN: The author of the highlighted article below is right on. For background to Walter Wink’s use of the term, please see: Facing the Myth of Redemptive Violence The myth of redemptive violence and ‘The Hateful Eight’ Book Extract: The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium by […]

Nearly a Third of Republicans Surveyed Are Ready to Support Violence

By Matthew Rozsa, Salon Published November 2, 2021 photo above: aljazeera.com WN: Founder and CEO of PRRI, Robert Jones said: I’ve been doing this a while, for decades, and it’s not the kind of finding that as a sociologist, a public opinion pollster, that you’re used to seeing. This is deeply ominous . . . […]

Spotlight on “Why MAGA Social Media Is a Hacker’s Wet Dream”

Adam Rawnsley, Senior Researcher; Shannon Vavra, National Security Reporter Oct. 31, 2021 image above: Optimized Hate WN: Fools rush in . . . excerpts: When a photo of a pig in an obscene position smothered in poop was posted to an account that appeared to belong to former President Donald Trump on his newest social […]

Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny

WN: The video below is highly disturbing. It is an interview with Yale historian Timothy Snyder, author of the widely acclaimed study: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. It is indeed ominous. A portion of the transcript reads: ARI MELBER: “When you see this effort to put this much pressure on installing partisan […]

Mapping the Evangelical Mind

By Abbie Storch October 20, 2021 WN: The review of Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith below offers fascinating insights. Most troubling is this observation: Whether through their embrace of individualism or their diagnosis of pluralism as the death knell of Christianity, Silliman argues, these books shaped the imaginations of […]

On A letter from Hell

By Robin Schumacher, Exclusive Columnist photo above: pxhere.com WN: It is interesting that the photo chosen for the article highlighted below (not shown above) is along the lines of what Larry Dixon wrote (The Other Side of the Good News: Contemporary Challenges to Jesus’ teaching on hell 1 in apparent approval of an instance of […]

They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith.

Becca Andrews September 30, 2021 photo above: yelp.com WN: The article highlighted below begins with Megan Wohlers telling her story of abuse, and ends with these understated words from her: And that’s not how Jesus would have acted. I added October 24, 2021 almost an identical story, only from Jerry Falwell’s (Founder) Liberty University. His […]

Josh McDowell steps back from ministry after controversial remarks on black families

By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter September 23, 2021 photo above: Josh McDowell speaks at Talbot Chapel at Biola University in California on January 21, 2020. | YouTube/Biola University WN: Meanwhile, 82 years and 150 books in, Christian “intellectual” McDowell has finally learned something about Black History in America? Thank God we’re never too old […]

Engelhardt, A Hellfire World

By Tom Engelhardt photo above: ‘THEY ARE ALL DEAD’: Harrowing leaked footage shows US drone strikes in Afghanistan as pilot admits killing two civilians & child by mistake; Imogen Braddick WN: What can one say? God damn the monstrous capacity of the West (of course elsewhere too!) to cold-bloodedly commit mass murder via drone strike […]

9/11 was a test:

Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 [pullquote]. . . the official response to 9/11 unleashed some of its worst qualities: deception, brutality, arrogance, ignorance, delusion, overreach and carelessness.[/pullquote]WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay by a Pulitzer Prizer winner for criticism in 2019. But the last lines, though […]

‘Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here

By ZACK COLMAN and KARL MATHIESEN 08/09/2021 04:01 AM EDT Updated: 08/09/2021 03:29 PM EDT photo above: Fire burns during a wildfire near the village of Schinos, Greece, on May 19, 2021. | Valerie Gache/AP Photo WN: We have met the enemy, and he is US.–Pogo We have seen the forecast, and it is NOW! […]

Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated

By Aaron E. Carroll Dr. Carroll is the chief health officer for Indiana University. He’s also a writer who focuses on health research and policy. photo above: Tim Gruber for The New York Times WN1: The consistent messaging is: If for no other reason, because of our neighbour, we should get vaccinated. There is also […]

Apocalypse Right Now

Opinion Maureen Dowd July 24, 2021 photo above: Fire consumed a home as the Sugar Fire tore through Doyle, Calif., this month.Credit…Noah Berger/Associated Press WN: As the author’s last line states: Après moi, le déluge –This is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone,[2] though it may […]

The Threat of an Unvaccinated South

By Adam Harris July 22, 2021 photo above: kyma.com WN: Sadly, idiot politicians like the one mentioned in the second last paragraph (see if you can guess who!) are creating enormous smoke screens of outright lies, and thereby threaten potentially millions. For, As [Shweta Bansal, an associate professor and an infectious-disease expert at Georgetown University] […]

What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6?

By Dan Zak and Karen Heller July 20, 2021 photo above: (Robert Carter for The Washington Post) WN: Sadly, the person guilty of First Degree Insurrection–along with a sycophantic GOP almost en masse–is not yet in the dock or jail. May his day hasten . . . Please see also: ‘Some are still suffering’: Months […]

Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America

By Megan Garber July 12, 2021 WN: Sick . . . Please also see an earlier piece by  Timothy Karr, April 27, 2021: Tucker Carlson’s Racism: Paid for by You. We read: Racism pays in America—especially if you’re the primetime host of a cable channel that panders to the country’s sizable population of white nationalists. […]

An American Kingdom

By Stephanie McCrummen July 11, 2021 photo above: Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. (Dylan Hollingsworth for The Washington Post) WN: Oh dear! Oh dear! As my good Jesuit-trained friend Gerry Ayotte says, drawing on Tradition back to the Fathers and Mothers of the Church, God speaks loudest in the silence. In the fully choreographed […]

The Ascension of Bernie Sanders

Opinion Maureen Dowd July 10, 2021 photo above: Senator Bernie Sanders heading back to his office after breakfast in Burlington, Vt. Credit… Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times WN: Go for it, Bernie! excerpts: At 79, Bernie Sanders is a man on a mission, laser-focused on a list that represents trillions of dollars […]

Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters’ Wrath

By Jake Jackson July 10, 2021 WN: All so tragic! But for some comic relief: The Replacement Republican Party from MarkFiore on Vimeo. excerpts: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Rep. Peter Meijer cites Gerald R. Ford as his inspiration these days, not because the former president held his House seat for 24 years or because his […]

The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It

Opinion Michelle Goldberg July 9, 2021 photo above: Mark Peterson/Redux WN: To the first part of the title: Amen!!!1 To the second part: Whenever Christianity “owns” a culture it becomes corrupt. British 19th-century Catholic historian Lord John Acton observed: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, […]

Mass Psychosis May Follow Cheney’s Ouster

By Community May 11, 2021 [pullquote]During the Obama administration, Cheney was a Fox News regular who, as was the fashion at the time, insisted that the president was secretly sympathetic to jihadists. She enthusiastically defended the use of torture, dismissed the constitutional right to due process as an inconvenience, and amplified the Obama-era campaign to […]

Opinion: The American right is becoming completely untethered from reality

Opinion by  Max Boot April 28, 2021 photo above: President Biden in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 8. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) WN: The article highlighted speaks to the current tragedy of the GOP. Please also see: Almost Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War Was a Lie. Trump is […]

Almost Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War Was a Lie

April 27, 2021 by Sonali Kolhatkar image above: Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair chart below: The Washington Post, Fatal Force WN: Ethicist A. J. Coates writes in The Ethics of War: The moral prohibition of lying, for example, makes good sense in the context of personal relations, but no sense at all in affairs of […]

Wall Street May Finally Be Taking Climate Change Seriously

Dominic Rushe Bio Environment  March 19, 2021 photo above: Axiom/Zuma WN: Hope springs eternal. The article highlighted is hopeful! excerpts: This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wildfires burned nearly 10.4 million acres across the US last year. The most costly thunderstorm in US […]

The Useful Idiot:

02/28/2021 By S.V. Dáte, HuffPost US illustration above: Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photo: Getty WN: I can only add: I have two close relatives who belong to that cast of Deplorables highlighted below. That is agonizingly incredible!. . . Sigh. . . excerpts: The following is excerpted from “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican […]

How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract

January 23, 2020 by Mandy Smithberger illustration above: Matt Wuerker (Politico/Reddit) WN: In short: reducing military spending/international arms sales/wars is ever an American non-starter. It will remain so as long as the United States–regardless of which party–remains in thrall to militarized neoliberalism/capitalism. As Nick Turse’s The Complex makes abundantly clear, it is, since World War […]

Pandemic Revelations

December 4, 2020 WN: I recently posted an article about David Cayley. There have been a few others. So I will not repeat what I have shared earlier. Except: he is arguably one of the most informed thinkers in Canada–and across multiple disciplines. I’ll highlight the second reflection that Cayley did on his website. That […]

Neoliberalism –

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot Fri 15 Apr 2016 photo above: ‘No alternative’ … Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher at the White House. Photograph: Rex Features […]

Reckoning with the Toxicity of Christian Nationalism

By Bill Berkowitz February 8, 2021 WN: The article highlighted below is very disturbing for followers of the one Mark Lewis Taylor dubs The Executed God (book review here, with the subtitle: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America). I stand in perpetual amazement at how the New Testament Jesus is read to be […]

The American Abyss

A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. By Timothy Snyder Jan. 9, 2021 photo above (screenshot): The police forced the crowd out of the Capitol building after facing off in the Rotunda, Jan. 6, 3:40 p.m.Credit…Ashley Gilbertson/VII, for The New York Times WN: This is brilliant–and scary!–analysis. […]

Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?

Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently forced a reckoning. by Ibram X. Kendi September 2020 Issue Ideas image above: The Atlantic WN: I love the ironic optimism of this piece! As you will see excerpted in context below, I […]

Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS

Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams (11/19/2020) November 20, 2020 WN: “Collateral damage” has always meant huge numbers of civilians–aged and young, noncombatants of both sexes, etc.–indiscriminately slaughtered during U.S. drone strikes and other bombings the world over. American military […]

The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is.

When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no clue why this is how we choose our president. Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca (Zinn Education Project) photo above: Students deserve an explanation for the origins of the Electoral College. (Photo: […]

The Man Card

WN: Please see this new and powerful video–free until November 3! It tells America’s story of the past half century through White Male Identity Politics. Canadian-born Liz Plank in her fall 2019 book (before the pandemic!), For the Love of Men: From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity states baldly: Although the news often focuses […]

The Priority of Peaceableness in a Disruptive Election

Craig M. Watts October 26, 2020 General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics WN: The article highlighted is very sobering. Amen to the last two sentences: Blood may be shed. But may it never be by our hands. excerpts: Extensive studies have shown the vast majority of political violence in the US in nearly thirty years –with […]

Is abortion the only thing that matters to Jesus?

Blog / Paradigm Shift Guest Contributor September 4, 2020 “I have felt a heaviness in my soul lately.” by Jennifer Abel WN: This is powerful! I also highly recommend another powerful piece addressing the same issues, that I posted about four years ago: White, Conservative, Christian Friend—I Wish You Really Were Pro-Life. Abel writes below: […]

James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion

Increasingly uncomfortable with News Corp’s politics and profit motives, Rupert’s younger son chose chickens and sheep over Fox, and insists he doesn’t watch ‘Succession.’   By Maureen Dowd Oct. 10, 2020 photo above: John Phillips/Getty Images   WN: A very telling article highlighted below . . . excerpts: WASHINGTON — As we sat down to […]

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s. By Olivia Nuzzi

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s. THE SWAMP Oct. 9, 2020 Art: Eric Fischl WN: The article highlighted is tragic recounting of an incredibly sick man on every level–and an administration trying desperately to keep the four-year con-job […]

The Unraveling of America

by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His award-winning books include “Into the Silence” and “The Wayfinders.” His new book, “Magdalena: River of Dreams,” is published by Knopf. WN: This is an exceptional article! There is however a […]

George Yancy: To Be Black in the US Is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day

By Woojin Lim,Truthout Published July 18, 2020 photo above: reddit.com WN: A close relative saw the post, The Case for Reparations, ((a long essay about the history of Black repression in the U.S.),  and in response merely indicated that these things happen and moved on  . . . Another close relative who did not read […]

The Price of White Evangelical Patriarchy

By Eric C. Miller | July 7, 2020 photo above: Donald Trump stands near a statue of John Wayne during a news conference at the John Wayne Museum in Winterset, Iowa. (AP/Jae C. Hong) WN: Though not declamatory, this interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of just published Jesus and John Wayne: How White […]

Black Toronto residents 20 times more likely to be shot dead by police, study says

Black people made up 61% of cases where police used force that resulted in death, Ontario human rights commission report said Leyland Cecco in Toronto Mon 10 Dec 2018 photo above: rt.com WN: The article from a year and a half ago highlighted below was brought to mind by today’s “Trudeau: Canadians watching US unrest […]

How China’s Fails, Lies and Secrecy Ignited a Pandemic Explosion

The regime now is in full propaganda mode, aided by the World Health Organization. Andrew Nikiforuk April 2, 2020| TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for three decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here. photo above: Xi Jinping, general […]

The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming

Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing. 03.19.2020 photo above: Dr. Larry Brilliant is known, among other things, for his work with the World Health Organization in the 1970s, helping to successfully eradicate smallpox in India. REUTERS/Carlos Barria WN: Dr. Brilliant […]

Inside the COVID-Denialist Internet Bubble

While many of the president’s ardent supporters have come around to the seriousness of the disease, others have come up with elaborate conspiracies. KEITH KLOOR03/22/2020 Keith Kloor is a writer in New York and adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. WN: Jesus and the OT Prophets say: If you have eyes to see, […]

Can the Coronavirus and the Stock Market Meltdown Break America’s Addiction to Fantasy?

image above: Fantasy Landscape HD Wallpapers, Pictures, Images hdwallpaper.nu Jon Schwarz March 18 2020, 9:14 a.m. WN: Such a telling article! Added to all other epithets about Trump such as Ugly-American-in-Chief, Liar-in-Chief, Buffoon-in-Chief, Narcissist-in-Chief, Ignoramus-in-Chief, World-Enemy-in-Chief, is Fantasizer-in-Chief.1 America will never become “White Again”. Such days are forever gone–regardless of Trump’s short-lived success to the contrary. . […]

How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip

By Anand Giridharadas November 21, 2019 Giridharadas is a TIME editor-at-large and the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, The True American and India Calling. He is also a political analyst for NBC News and teaches writing at NYU. Illustration by Shout for TIME WN: Compelling–and hopeful–analysis in light […]

When the Facts Are Not Debatable

The House’s two charges against Trump get right to the point, are easy to prove, and precisely describe the threat the president poses to American democracy. December 11, 2019 Kim Wehle Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law photo above: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters WN: As a non-lawyer and Canadian, I find the […]

America’s Arms Sales Addiction

November 17, 2019 The 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade By William D. Hartung Honestly, if a single corporate entity controlled three-quarters of the global market in a product, you’d call it a monopoly, right? Well, in 2011, that was the situation of the United States when it came to […]

The Exposure of the Republican Party

The Exposure of the Republican Party The GOP will not be a great or good party until those who lead it straighten their backbone. November 13, 2019 Peter Wehner Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC photo above: Pool / Reuters WN: This rings so true. When unchecked hubris and unbridled greed […]

Uncovering Russiagate’s Origins Could Prevent Future Scandals

There are legitimate grounds to probe the intelligence officials behind the all-consuming Trump-Russia affair. By Aaron Maté October 28, 2019 photo above: Trump shakes hands with Attorney General William Barr before taking the podium in the East Room of the White House in September. He was awarding police officers and civilians for their role in […]

Our Mad Dog President—and His Bible-Thumping Kennel Pals

Published on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Common Dreams by Michael Winship The White House theocrats may be the biggest danger of all. photo above: Like Trump, a would-be dictator madly claiming the overwhelming support of the populace, the real-life Capone insisted that his criminal acts satisfied “a public demand.” (Photo-Illustration: Daily Intelligencer; Photos: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty […]

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century The Real Cover-Up: Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in Context Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 7:28am, October 8, 2019. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: Mr. Bacevich I find always on target and persuasive. excerpts: As this process unspools, what politicians like to call […]

Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA

October 4, 2019 by Rob Urie photo above: Photograph Source: Master Steve Rapport – CC BY 2.0 WN: There is always more going on geopolitically than meets the eye! This account is to be taken seriously. excerpts: For the first time in half a century, the political left in the U.S. is ascendant. Bernie Sanders […]

Beyond Impeachment: Remove This Regime from Below

October 1, 2019 by Paul Street photo above: White House – Public Domain WN: This is a powerful broadside against the Ultimate Bad Guy on the Planet: the Evil Empire of the United States of America! The vehemence is found not only in the colourful language, but even in the typos . . . Mr. […]

Why Would a Whistle-Blower Save This Nation of Cowards?

For nearly three years, none of our leaders have held Trump accountable—yet we expect the Ukraine scandal to be different. By Elie Mystal September 23, 2019 WN: Very sad . . . excerpts: [su_dropcap size=”5″]W[/su_dropcap]e cannot guarantee the safety of whistle-blowers. Oh, we pass all kinds of laws with fancy names like the “Whistleblower Protection […]

John Bolton’s Ouster Makes the World Safer

But only a little. Trump’s clownish foreign policy shouldn’t be used to discredit diplomacy. By Jeet Heer September 11, 2019 photo above: John Bolton talks to reporters about outside the White House on May 1, 2019. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) WN: This analysis strikes as reading Trump all too well: thereby accentuating Trump’s continued […]

Puerto Ricans Demonstrate How to Oust a Corrupt Leader

Jul 25, 2019 Opinion | TD originals Sonali Kolhatkar photo above: Puerto Ricans gather in San Juan to celebrate the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. (Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo / AP) WN: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the Ultimate Corrupt/Ultimate Despicable/Ultimate Deplorable Trump were next (or better went through a genuine Christian conversion)?! 🙂 excerpts: […]

Editorial: The politics of division stripped of any disguise

Jul 18, 2019 by NCR Editorial Staff photo above: The White House is seen in Washington July 12. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)  WN: This is so well stated, it bears quoting in full. Opinion The stock market indexes keep pushing through the ceiling. Your portfolio looks better than it has in years. The jobless rate recently hit […]

It Has Long Been Past Time To Take A Stand

July 16, 2019 by Henry Karlson image above: GDJ: Stop Racism / Pixabay WN: Trump is doing great evil in America and across the world. Every Christian pulpit in the nation — and beyond — should be declaring with Amos, Micah and Jesus: Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless […]

Progressives Need to Start Preaching Hell Again

July 16, 2019 by Chuck McKnight   photo above: Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 Generic. WN: Amen! Except: I so dislike the term “progressive”, which in my view can smack of just another kind of (religious) elitism. “Justice-seekers” or some such term is what I’d rather identify with. Please also read about the Poor […]

Kids Locked In Cages Aren’t So Sure You’re Actually “Pro-Life”

Benjamin L. Corey July 1, 2019   WN: Of course, the persons addressed in the article highlighted below in the end are neither “pro-life” nor “Christian”. They have always happily supported bombing the hell out of whatever perceived enemy of the month America is targeting “now” (and that is anyone/state not bowing to its hegemony […]

Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism

Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN: There is much on “savage capitalism” on this website. This expression likely references Rudyard Kipling’s famous line “The savage wars of peace” from his classic pro-American Empire poem: “The White Man’s Burden: The United States […]

How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL

How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL His settlement with the league is a major victory for the leader of the league’s protest movement. By Jeremy Stahl Feb 15, 2019 5:22 PM photo above: New York City, New York, JuLY 12 ,2020: In this photo we see a graphic artist drawing, painting, an artist made of […]

Five Forces Driving the Rise of Fascism in 2019

Five Forces Driving the Rise of Fascism in 2019 By Michael I. Niman,Truthout Published January 13, 2019 WN: The article highlighted below is a call to see beyond dystopian rise of fascism in the world to what we Christians call “Kingdom Come”. The article is nonetheless very sobering. excerpts: bitchute.com [su_dropcap size=”5″]T[/su_dropcap]he New Year’s Day […]

Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics

Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics “All I’m saying is don’t act like the way things are is somehow ordained by God.” By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Jan 10, 2019, 5:00am EST   photo above: Tucker Carlson, host of Tucker Carlson Tonight, in his Fox News Channel studio in New York on […]

No, Heaven Does Not Have A Border Wall

No, Heaven Does Not Have A Border Wall January 7, 2019 by Zack Hunt (Image Credit: Wikipedia Commons) WN: In fact, Christ is in the business of tearing down walls, as in Ephesians 2: 14For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility […]

Bush the Archvillain

Bush the Archvillain By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published December 4, 2018 photo above: President George H.W. Bush speaks during his unsuccessful bid for re-election for the presidency, October 29, 1992.Wally McNamee / Corbis via Getty Images WN: My commentary from the previous post is fitting again: Of course any lineup of contemporary former Presidents […]

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do With His Bad Politics

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do With His Bad Politics Published on Wednesday, October 03, 2018 by T.S. Mendola Rewire.News photo above: usapoliticstoday.org [pullquote]No saint is without a past; no sinner is without a future.[/pullquote]WN: And Hitler was apparently an animal lover… excerpt: Brett Kavanaugh’s politics are bad—not in the sense that […]

Reckoning With John McCain

Respecting the best of McCain requires grappling with the rest of McCain. By Timothy Patrick McCarthy Twitter August 27, 2018 photo above: John McCain in 2007. (Dennis Van Tine / MediaPunch / IPX) WN: In my view, the article highlighted below is a respectful, balanced assessment of Senator McCain, when seen through the lenses of […]

Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs

The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold August 27, 2018 WN: I have a white Canadian Evangelical friend who expresses being fed up with white Evangelical-bashing — in particular towards white Evangelicals south of the border1. I argue on the contrary that […]

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Will China Be the Next Global Hegemon?

Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump “America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents By Alfred W. McCoy image above: Visual Capitalist, from “The world’s top economy: the US vs China in five charts” WN: As usual, Dr. McCoy’s trenchant analysis proves compelling, sage, hugely informed, and immensely helpful. Trump’s […]

How Does This All End? How Do We Come Back Together?

August 1, 2018 by Tim Suttle 8 Comments WN: In the article highlighted below, we are told — again by this author — that America has a wisdom problem. I have no doubt that he is right. What must be asserted however much more so is that America has an Evil Empire problem. When an […]

Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’

Commits the church to working toward its abolition worldwide1 Aug 2, 2018 by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service Theology   photo above: Pope Francis gestures before speaking about the death penalty at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, at the Vatican in this Oct. 11, 2017, file photo. […]

Enough Bombs Bursting in Air. We Need to Love One Another.

By William Rivers Pitt Truthout, Published July 4, 2018 WN: I love it when people not necessarily in the faith reflect back to us Jesus’ central message to “love one another”. And I think it singularly sobering that they remind people of faith about its central tenet. Would that the white evangelical majority everywhere in […]

The Last Temptation

How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory Michael Gerson April 2018 Issue Politics WN: This is a greatly informed, wise and even hopeful assessment of what has happened to white Evangelicals in America since their embrace of Trump (81% voted for […]

The Arctic Is Melting Down as the Antarctic Food Chain Is Breaking

Monday, March 05, 2018 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report photo above: Little Visuals excerpts: A draft UN report has warned that missing the 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Climate Accords will multiply hunger, migration and conflict around the globe. The 1.5°C target means limiting atmospheric temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C above what they […]

The Last Real Evangelical: Evangelist Billy Graham

Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel White / MelWhite.org1 WN: On the day of Billy Graham’s death (February 21, 2018), I posted a critical commentary on Graham. Today I post a positive reflection by Mel White, who counted Graham as a […]

Pope Denounces ‘Mentality of Fear’ Caused by Nuclear Regimes, Urges Disarmament

Published on Friday, November 10, 2017 by Common Dreams At a seminar at the Vatican, Pope Francis praised the U.N.’s recent anti-nuclear weapons treaty by Julia Conley, staff writer photo above: Pope Francis called for nuclear disarmament at a Vatican summit on Friday, a week after an emotional anti-war speech at a military cemetery in […]

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Last Men Standing

Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:03am, September 5, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. Victory at Last!  In America’s Wars, Failure Is the New Success By Tom Engelhardt photo above: Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (left), speaks to White House chief of staff Gen. John F. Kelly. (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]

The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution

The evangelical Christian movement has been at war with environmentalism for decades—but the stakes have never been higher. By ALLIE CONTI illustrated by LIA KANTROWITZ Aug 20 2017, 7:15pm WN: It is truly tragic to see US politics swayed by a minority of religious climate change deniers – out of all proportion to their numbers. […]

How to Challenge Media Narratives Without Being Called a Conspiracy Theorist

August 12, 2017 John Kiriakou Contributor photo above: President Kennedy minutes before his assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Also in the presidential limousine: Jackie Kennedy, Texas Gov. John Connally and Connally’s wife, Nellie. (Walt Cisco / Wikimedia) WN: As to the last line of the quote below: You can fool all the people […]

Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago

The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Great Hysteria Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 6:10am, August 8, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. By Andrew J. Bacevich WN: The article highlighted below claims that “Trumps R Us“. Another way of expressing it of course: Trump is the Ultimate Ugly American! Tragically, America got exactly what it had become. […]

The Demolition of U.S. Global Power

Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East  Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Trumping the Empire Posted by Alfred McCoy at 4:23pm, July 16, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. By Alfred W. McCoy excerpts: Trump’s Demolition Job Despite the obvious differences in their economic circumstances, there remain some telling resonances between Britain’s postwar politics and America’s troubles today. […]

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Aiding and Abetting the Tweeter-in-Chief

The Insult Wars in Washington  How They Blind Us to Our Troubles  By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:15pm, July 9, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. photo above: From the article highlighted below is this: But one tweet truly caught my attention, even if it was at the very beginning of a donnybrook that, with twists […]

The Unacknowledged Logic of North Korea’s Missile Tests

We may not like it, but nuclear weapons may be all that stands in the way of another US-conducted “regime change.” By Patrick Lawrence July 6, 2017 2:05 PM photo above: South Korean and U.S. Army tanks fire live rounds during a joint live-fire military exercise near the demilitarized zone in Pocheon, South Korea, April 21, […]

White Supremacy Is Anti-Gospel. I’m Glad the Southern Baptist Convention Agrees

WN: I copied the entire article below. It is about an historic decision by the Southern Baptist Convention. Russell Moore has been the head of the (SBC) Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission since 2013. As you can see from the links, he has been an amazing voice within those ranks for actually […]

Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas

Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas JUNE 2, 2017 by PAUL STREET WN: The review below of the recent massive biography of Barack Obama is scathing with reference to Obama’s supreme narcissism (matching Trump’s one could argue, though not in constant bombast). Paul Street powerfully demonstrates how Obama, in a long line […]

America’s Iran Hysteria

The Irrationality of Iran Vilification By Danny Sjursen Posted by Danny Sjursen at 7:46am, May 30, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: It is now almost in every geopolitical instance a truism that if the United States says “black” the reality is the inverse – or significantly other. Such is the case in the article highlighted below. America’s view […]

Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet

Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change Bill McKibben @billmckibben Monday 17 April 2017 11.00 BST Last modified on Tuesday 18 April 2017 19.35 BST an excerpt: Last month, speaking at a Houston petroleum industry gathering, he got a standing ovation from the […]

‘No Walls, No War, No Warming’: Progressives Call for Priorities Shift

Published on Tuesday, April 04, 2017 by Common Dreams Under President Donald Trump’s budget, “war wins out”—over pretty much everything photo above: Fifty years ago Tuesday, Martin Luther King, Jr. warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual […]

Evangelist Franklin Graham hits perfect storm in Vancouver

Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun  03.05.2017 photo above: Thirty-three Vancouver Christian leaders wrote a public letter admonishing Graham for saying “Islam is a ‘very evil and wicked religion’” and for “portraying … U.S. President Donald Trump as intrinsically aligned with the Christian church.” Photo: Graham takes the stage in Alabama. Mark Wallheiser / Vancouver Sun WN: […]

Constantine in Canada – Ron Dart – with Vancouver letter re: Franklin Graham

February 27, 2017 Constantine in Canada: The Conservative Evangelicals Ron S. Dart WN: Years ago, I wrote an editorial in The Mennonite, a U.S.-based periodical, about evangelism being carried out – without the Gospel.  The Editor later informed me that he had never received so many angry Letters to the Editor attacking my article in his […]

Truthdiggers of the Week: Sanctuary Churches, Havens for Undocumented Immigrants

photo above: Members of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, N.J., show support for undocumented immigrants. (Reformed Church of Highland Park / Facebook) Posted on Feb 18, 2017 By Emma Niles an excerpt: Since President Trump took office less than one month ago, fears of increased deportations at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have […]

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them – Jesus

WN: Across the United States, there has been massive support by conservative Evangelical Christians for Donald Trump. For instance, before election, he was fêted by 1,000 Evangelical leaders in New York City who embraced him as a great Christian leader. At his inauguration, Franklin Graham (Billy Graham’s son) ad libbed that God’s blessing was on […]

For America’s Sake, We Need Answers about Russia. Now.

Why we must now ask famous questions that so bedeviled Richard Nixon: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Published on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by  Common Dreams By Michael Winship image above: Russian President Vladimir Putin. ‘The bottom line is that Putin is far shrewder than Trump,’ writes Winship. (Image: […]

Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The China Missile Crisis of 2018?

Posted by Rajan Menon at 5:11pm, February 12, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: “We’re Going to War in the South China Sea…” Facing off against China, President Trump could find himself in a similar predicament, having so emphasized his toughness, his determination to regain America’s lost respect and make the country great […]

“I’ve Never Been So Ashamed To Be an American.” Really?

These are shameful times, but the current ugliness did not start simply with Donald Trump Published on Friday, February 10, 2017 by Common Dreams By Christian Christensen photo above: ‘How deep is our disconnect from that of which we should be most ashamed?’ asks Christensen.  (Photo: Ted S. Warren/ AP) WN: Of course the author […]

Why We March: Reflections from Women’s Marches

Jan 26, 2017 Donald Trump Women’s March photo above: Sean Talbot joined thousands of people marching in the rain in Portland, Oregon. See more of his photos from the day at Stumptown Lives. On Saturday, January 21st, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, millions of people […]

Obama: Prevent nuclear war!

From Avaaz: What’s the scariest thing about Trump?? He’s completely unpredictable, and if he decides to launch US nuclear weapons — there’s nothing that can stop him. That’s cause once the President says “go”, there’s just 4 minutes til launch. It’s a crazy dangerous system that started in the Cold War and is totally unnecessary today […]

If You Think Jesus Was White, Here Are Five Reasons You’re Wrong

Posted on Dec 26, 2016 By Juan Cole Jesus is the polar opposite of Donald Trump. And sadly, so are some Trump supporters opposite to Jesus, for whom another name than “deplorables” is “goats” à la Matthew 25. Jesus was however, in today’s terms neither Left nor Right, Progressive nor Conservative, and, à la Galatians 3:28, Jew […]

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Most Dangerous Country on Earth

Was 11/8 a New 9/11? The Election That Changed Everything and Could Prove History’s Deal-Breaker By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 7:31am, December 1, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: Whatever Americans may have ushered in with the events of 11/8, one thing is increasingly certain about the country that Donald […]

No, Everything Is Not Going to Be Alright

Published on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Common Dreams By Ted Rall photo above: ‘Trump’s fascism,’ writes Rall, ‘will come about naturally, caused by the perfect storm of his ego, his CEO mentality, the politics and personalities of the men and women with whom he is surrounding himself, and a set of developments that are […]

We Are All Deplorables

Posted on Nov 20, 2016 By Chris Hedges an excerpt: Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal class and the right wing are unwilling to acknowledge. This economic identity is one the white underclass shares with other discarded people, including the undocumented workers and the people of color demonized by the carnival […]

As a Muslim, How Do I Tell My Child the New President Doesn’t Like Us?

Donald Trump’s victory has led to a surge in anti-Muslim feeling in the US. Explain that to a nine-year-old. By Mehdi Hasan an excerpt: How do I explain to my daughter, a proud US citizen who recites the pledge of allegiance in class every morning, that millions of her fellow Americans elected as her next […]

For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror

Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above: Jobs For Felons Hub; Edited: LW / TO This is an incredibly powerful assessment of “state terror” in arguably the most oppressive democracy of recent times: the United States of America. The author’s analysis rings true at every turn: […]

Election 2016 and the Growing Global Nuclear Threat

Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy By Michael T. Klare Tomgram: Michael Klare, Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button? | TomDispatch an excerpt: It’s clear that we’re on the threshold of a new nuclear era: a time when the actual use of atomic weapons is being accorded greater plausibility by military and political […]

My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right – The Huffington Post

By Luke O’Brien Illustrations By Mariano Pascual November 3, 2016 I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana. I got bounced from a secret meeting in D.C. I spent weeks figuring out how hate gurgles up from the nastiest recesses of the Internet. And I’m sorry to report that unconscionable racists will be a […]

An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016

 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is untainted vis à vis violence. And with that taintedness is a bending at least towards hypocrisy and Pharisaism – which my friend also reminded me about. So with that mea culpa, please read on.: Dear […]

How Breitbart Conquered the Media

 TA-NEHISI COATES Sep 12, 2016 Politics Why the Media Didn’t Bother to Verify if Hillary Clinton’s Remark About Half of Donald Trump’s Supporters Being ‘Deplorable’ Was True – The Atlantic Political reporters were taken aback by Hillary Clinton’s charge that half of Trump’s supporters are prejudiced. Few bothered to investigate the claim itself. an excerpt: […]

UN Human Rights Chief Urges Action Against Western ‘Demagogues’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Comparing the likes of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, and Geert Wilders to ISIS, UN’s Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein implores: “Speak out and up…Draw the line!” Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by Common Dreams photo above: “The formula is…simple: make people, already nervous, feel terrible, and then emphasize it’s all because of a group, lying within, foreign […]

The Revenge of Roger’s Angels

How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media. September 2, 2016 7:30 a.m. By Gabriel Sherman photo above: Wesley Mann/AUGUST: Roger Ailes. WN: There is something profoundly disturbing, but in no way surprising, about Roger Ailes, who recently was fired from Fox News, after his decades-long harassment and abuse […]

When this is over, you will have nothing that you want – Chicago Tribune

photo above: Donald Trump calls for ideological screening tests of all immigrants. Aug. 31, 2016. (C-SPAN) By Garrison Keillor Special To The Washington Post an excerpt: Why doesn’t someone in your entourage dare to say these things? So sad. The fans in the arenas are wild about you, and Sean Hannity is as loyal as […]

Three Fact-Checking Websites of Note

Image above: from Politifact: I’ll highlight the All Pants-On-Fire assertions by Donald Trump – there are of course so many such by other politicians too! But PolitiFact did award Trump “2015 Lie of the Year“. I’m sitting back not a little dumbfounded by a recent exchange I had about Obama and the US elections candidates. […]

The Neocon Project for a New Democratic Party

photo above: White House Monday, 08 August 2016 08:45 J.P. SOTTILE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT an excerpt: Unlike Hillary Clinton, of course, which brings the whole thing back to the miasma of confusion hanging over this strange election. Hillary is on the Neocon team — if not in name, certainly in deed. She will “stand up” […]

Nuclear disarmament: back on centre stage

by Elizabeth Renzetti The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Aug. 05, 2016 6:00 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Aug. 05, 2016 9:27AM EDT an excerpt: Could Donald Trump accidentally be the best friend of the nuclear disarmament movement? This may sound like Dr. Strangelove-level madness, but the prospect of the Republican presidential candidate anywhere near […]

Part 2: Michael Moore with Piers Morgan: Good Morning Britain

Published on Jul 5, 2016 With over one million Americans killed by guns since John Lennon, Michael Moore is in Britain and speaking with Piers Morgan about guns, Donald Trump, Brexit and the EU. Full Interview Good Morning Britain (06/24/16) Please also see this about Michael Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 11/9, release date September 21, […]

The Language of War

Posted on June 19, 2016 by wjastore an excerpt: The language of war fascinates me. I was reading President Obama’s response to Donald Trump on whether Obama “gets it” when it comes to the threat of terrorism and came across this passage: “Someone [Donald Trump] seriously thinks that we don’t know who we are fighting? […]

Crisis Narratives and the Ongoing Drought in Ethiopia

Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Christine Ro, Truthout | News Analysis an excerpt: But Ethiopia is much more than a Live Aid poster country, and the crisis situation it’s facing now differs from the one in the 1980s — the country has a more stable government and a stronger emergency management system. And El […]

Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, The Grief of Others and the Boasts of Candidates

photo above: An injured Afghan boy is put on a stretcher at a hospital in Jalalabad city, Afghanistan. Photograph: Nesar Ahmad Posted by Mattea Kramer at 7:01am, March 3, 2016. An excerpt from the introduction: Here’s a what-if that continues to haunt me. What if some disturbed “lone wolf,” “inspired” by the Islamic State’s online […]

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

image above: Benito Mussolini (left) and Adolf Hitler (right), the leaders of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, respectively, were both fascists. WN: Sobering. Canada anyone? See too: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder. Of it: The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces […]

Christianity and the Subversion of Just About Everything!

April 16, 2017 WN: This essay was initially written in the 1980’s while I was preparing a sermon on Romans 13. My “aha” moment is that described in the excerpt below. I’ve never seen this elsewhere in biblical scholarship. Someday a New Testament scholar may tell me it really is not good exegesis. But until […]

WAR AND HELL – and Exception-Clause Footnote Theology

WN: War and Hell is an interactive essay with a movie and a book. The movie: Saving Private Ryan. The book: The Other Side of The Good News: Contemporary Challenges to Jesus’ Teaching on Hell, Wheaton: Victor Books, 1992 (later published by one other at least). The current iteration of this document was prepared for […]

Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018

At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1 million Rwandans murdered. CBC did the interview you see below. 30 years after Rwandan genocide, Roméo Dallaire feels ‘rage’ amid global crises | Watch (msn.com) Roméo Dallaire led the UN’s peacekeeping mission when more than […]

Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking

WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of the Fraser Valley. Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking Philosopher’s Café: Legal Grounds Coffee House, Abbotsford, April […]

Interaction With “The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime”

September 22, 2017 by Douglas Valentine – Lars Schall photo above by Tom Thai | CC BY 2.0 WN: Welcome to America the Beautiful. As kids, my brothers and I loved the highlighted song, as sung by George Beverly Shea–who performed in front of more people than any other singer in history. We played it […]

The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces

By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.1 All are rife with abuse within. As the article states: The Canadian Armed Forces, as an institution, has a necessarily coercive culture. Leaders must have a high degree of authority and control over their subordinates in order for the military […]

Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation

By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real images just the same. And this was anything but the proverbial walk in the park–or a tourist visit to the Capitol. Søren Kierkegaard wrote: The crowd is untruth. Anthropologist René Girard spent a career explicating […]

In a polarized world, dialogue is a radical act

Julie Schumacher Cohen Julie Schumacher Cohen is Director of Community and Government Relations at The University of Scranton. She is the former Deputy Director of Churches for Middle East Peace, Senior Fellow for the Telos Group and a facilitator for Soliya’s Connect Program. December 03, 2019 photo above: iStock  WN: A very wise and hopeful […]

Why Did Bush Go to War in Iraq? The Answer Is More Sinister Than You Think

Why Did Bush Go to War in Iraq? The Answer Is More Sinister Than You Think No, it wasn’t because of WMDs, democracy or Iraqi oil. Published on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 by Ahsan I Butt Al-Jazeera English photo above: (From left) Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush, and Vice President Dick […]

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean August 24, 2018 Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism by Louis Proyect WN: I wrote the following in introduction to a book similar in its findings about 19th-century American capitalism to 17th-century colonial capitalism, entitled The Half  Has Never […]

Why the Vatican continues to struggle with sex abuse scandals

by Chico Harlan August 12 at 6:53 PM Email the author photo above: Members of Chile’s bishops conference, Luis Fernando Ramos Perez and Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, give a news conference at the Vatican in May. (LUCA PRIZIA/AFP/Getty Images) WN: Pope Francis by all accounts is faltering on this, rather than robustly pursuing justice in all […]

America just won the world’s hardest math contest. Again.

by Mahbub Majumdar August 1, 2018 Mahbub Majumdar is the national coach for the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad and a professor at BRAC University in Bangladesh. photo above: (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) WN: I’m not anti-America! I am though anti-bullying, bullying of which America is Ultimate Example,  Ultimate Offender. Just as Trump is of all Americans, […]

We Must Speak Out: Christian Leaders on the White Nationalist Rally

The hate must end. August 13, 2017 This weekend, hundreds of alt-right white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, to hold a “Unite the Right” rally. Their stated goal was to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park. Their rally, which consisted of neo-Nazis, heavily armed militia members […]

Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Two Impulsive Leaders Fan the Global Flames

Posted by Dilip Hiro at 6:51am, July 6, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. image above: Winning entry of this year’s International Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest in Tehran. WN: The article highlighted below shows two impulsive leaders, Trump and Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Salman, to be hell-bent on fanning the flames of the Middle East, and thereby […]

We Are the 99 Percent—Except for the Top 20 Percent of Us

 In a new book Dream Hoarders, Richard V. Reeves argues that members of the upper middle class, not just the ultra-wealthy, are making our society profoundly unequal. By Bryce Covert JULY 3, 2017 WN: What the author calls for in the article highlighted below is what biblical Jubilee Justice repeatedly heralds: that for everyone “enough should be […]

The US tried to derail climate action before – and it ended in humiliating defeat

George W Bush failed in his attempt to block global action on climate change. His mistake – about to be repeated by Trump – was to imagine the UN process was weak Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Thursday 1 June 2017 16.50 BSTLast modified on Friday 2 June 2017 00.36 BST photo above: A polar bear leaps over melting ice, Svalbard […]

Who Rules America?

WN: Of course who rules America in turn rules the world. Such unbounded ruthlessly greedy power brokers have embraced and even to a large extent realized in the 21st century what was offered Jesus in the 1st (Matthew 4:1 – 11): “all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.“ But “the art of the deal” represents in fact […]

Fifty Years On: MLK’s Concerns Still Plague Us, Including Militarism

Tuesday, 04 April 2017 photo above: Racism, extreme materialism and militarism are still inextricably linked, and still prevent our society’s becoming anything close to Dr. King’s “beloved community.” (Photo: Susan Melkisethian) KEVIN MARTIN AND REVEREND DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY WN: The United States has acted like an empire since its inception: its two foundational sins are indigenous […]

There’s No Business Like the Arms Business

photo above: A mural near the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. (David Holt / CC-BY-2.0) July 26, 2016 Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Arm a “Volatile” Planet Editorial by WN It is a very strange world: Michelle Obama makes a highly impassioned, brilliant speech at the Democratic National Convention – one nearly universally praised, […]