Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a lot of boilerplate junk in the two much-noted…
February 19th was the Rage Against the War Machine rally in DC. That just so happens to be my dad’s birthday as well. He was born on that date in 1917, endured the Great Depression, worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps and in factories until being drafted in 1942, and after…
Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Coleen Rowley for her current thoughts. We focus on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the tensions and…
I’m well aware of the deluge of lies, misinformation, disinformation, historical amnesia, ideological bias, and pure tribal hatred for Russia and Vladimir Putin, which saturates the media, with any mention of Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the EU, by politicians, celebrities, commentators, every talking head who gets shoved in our faces…
This week, in an address to the Tenth Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – which had convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York – US President Joe Biden made a forceful appeal to Russia regarding the need to resume arms control talks. “Today,” Biden…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A senile old man in Washington who has a deadly nuclear arsenal at his fingertips is calling for dangerous weapons to be taken out of the hands of the mentally unstable. “Listen, folks, this shouldn’t be difficult,” said the yammering old geriatric to a duck in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting…
Most folks are too busy and simply would not understand what I’m about to say. But you’re aware, you’re concerned about our future, and you hate war. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on this website, which is 110% about stopping the war machine and throwing the warmongers out of power. We…
The U.S. is making great headway at starting a war with Russia. This excellent work is the product of solid planning, making sure the public has no idea what’s really going on, sparing no expense or resource in demonizing Russia and slandering Putin, and keeping the propaganda machine running in…
Distractions divide us and guarantee we’ll never talk about essential core challenges. The egregious, central obstacles to “promoting the general welfare” are never mentioned by the talking heads, the pundits or politicians, to whom we look for guidance and leadership. Distract and divide promises catastrophe, even to those who use…
We all are already quite familiar with usable lying. We call these ‘white lies’. “No, darling, you don’t look fat.” “Sorry I didn’t call. I lost your phone number.” “Your kids are so doggone cute.” And thank goodness! Right? We’ve all avoided the harsh consequences of total honesty, smoothed over…