Sunday, March 15, 2026

Hard to imagine 2023 with the same irreplaceable, mind-bending blessings as 2022

Whatever its unvarnished horror, 2022 looks to go down as marking baby steps in the right direction.

Chaos in Syria, Part II – Destruction, ISIS and Beyond

“What we need is a Higher World Order where building nations is more profitable than destroying them; conducting fair trade with other nations is more mutually beneficial than occupying them and stealing their resources; and living in a multi-polar world is more peaceful and profitable than one nation hopelessly clinging on to a dangerous fantasy of a unipolar world.”

House of Representatives impeach Homeland Security secretary

This was the GOP's second attempt to impeach Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas.

“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street

"To paraphrase philosopher George Santayana, those who cannot remember they were screwed by Wall Street are condemned to be screwed again."

Rejecting Michèle Flournoy, progressives demand Biden pick Pentagon chief ‘untethered’ from military-industrial complex

"The power progressives hold must be wielded now before it's too late, before Flournoy is crowned and the U.S. slips further into decline..."

Americans like the resistance a lot more than they like Trump

They don’t like you, Mr. President. They really don’t like you.

Scott Brown Says Orlando Shooting Did Not Primarily Target Gay People

“I don’t identify the people who were murdered as from a particular class of people.”

Environmental groups release thousands of Interior Department emails documenting unlawful changes to basic transparency...

Internal emails reveal efforts, led by Interior's top lawyer Daniel Jorjani, stifling the flow of information to the public under the Freedom of Information Act

72-Year-Old Fringe Left Candidate Wins Presidency in Austrian Run-Off Election — Is There a...

Austrians just elected a crusty 72-year-old leftist as their country's president in a surprise result that saw both their major mainstream party's candidates crushed. Could a crusty 74-year-old leftist named Bernie Sanders pull off the same feat here in the US, running as a Green candidate if Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination?

News from the far side of nowhere

In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...