Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The Bane of Anti-readers, thus anti-thinkers in America: Busted billionaires prove book learning a...

If you know nothing, you will believe anything – and you will be suckered to do anything.

The war in Ukraine, diplomacy and the progressive left

Solidarity across borders could allow us to work together to find solutions to the problems we face in common like hunger in our own countries and the global south and the existential risk of climate change.

The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large

The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.

Why DeSantis won’t uproot Trump—whose charades and chaos party snubs relevant, old-style resumes

Worst of all, but telling, DeSantis has not learned the first lesson: “know thy enemy.” If not Trump, who can DeSantis beat?

Mercenaries and morons: the failed for-profit Venezuela coup

Whatever one thinks of Venezuela’s government, the country’s long suffering people deserve better than being cast as expendable pawns in a struggle to secure the country’s vast oil and other resources for American and other multi-national corporate interests.

Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump: The three great threats to world peace and stability; all...

With the election on the horizon, America stands at a crossroads that will determine its fate going into the future.

The president is fooling himself. Is he fooling us, too?

If the occasional appearance of sanity is all we ask of Trump, then his reign of insanity will be our fault.

Preventing election chaos

So perhaps the confusion was planned?

Stupefied yet? What’s left but renaming: ‘Trumpington, DC’ or ‘Trump Tower White House’?

To coin a phrase, “To the spoiled victors go the victorious spoils.”

Descent of a throwback blowhard, swiping at energy-smart wind turbines, toilets & light bulbs

There is no subject too trivial, no norm too unobtrusive, no threshold of decorum Trump won’t trash to make hay for his “culture war” presidency.