Two month ago, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267129644228247552
This came shortly after protests over the hyper-militarization of America’s police forces in the wake of the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd began erupting.
Since ANTIFA (which means "anti-fascist") is neither...
Unidentified Department of Homeland Security (HHS) and U.S. Marshals Service officers have been given carte-blanche to terrorize peaceful protesters and anyone simply walking down the street in Portland, Oregon.
Under the guise of "protecting federal property,"...
Looking at pictures, one might assume he is looking at images of United States military personnel patrolling some street in a far-flung country half a world away.
But, no.
It's Portland, Ore.
And those are camouflaged federal law...
There's been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a...
While the media diverted some attention away from reporting on the Black Lives Matter protests and the spike in coronavirus cases to focus on Donald Trump's underwhelming Tulsa, Okla. rally on Saturday, two nuclear superpowers...
88.
That number may not mean much to us social justice warriors.
But it means a lot to white supremacists.
The letter "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Two H's together--"HH"--are shorthand for "Heil Hitler."
But that's too...
Imagine an armed group of Black Lives Matter protesters killing white Trump supporters.
The Fox so-called News talking heads heads' would explode.
But if the situation were reversed...
We don't have to imagine.
One BLM activist is dead after at...
We're hearing the phrase "violent protests" a lot lately.
Yet the protests over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd two weeks ago are different.
For the first time in recent memory, the press is concentrating more...
The nation is transforming right before our eyes.
Despite states re-opening after months of lock down, the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic is still infecting thousands every day, and a vaccine is not predicted any time soon.
The economy--already precarious...
Protests over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd nearly two weeks ago have been exposing the hyper-militarization of America's police forces.
While it is true most police officers are decent, honest, moral public servants dedicated...
When widespread protests erupt, especially when destruction of property is involved, there is inevitably a great deal of media attention on the "more interesting"--i.e., violent--aspects.
Peaceful protests rarely get attention.
But what happens when the law enforcement...
The United States should not be this broken.
Our failure to respond proactively to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has hobbled our already ailing economy and led to the needless deaths of over 100,000 Americans.
It's just yet another...
In the nearly four years the Trump administration has been in office, it has emboldened white supremacists, weakened environmental and financial regulations, handed a $1.5 trillion permanent tax break to corporations and the wealthy, caged asylum...
Two weeks.
That's all it took for Canada to ban assault-style firearms two weeks after the country suffered its worst mass shooting in history.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pronounced:
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and...
A functioning administration would respond to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic with World War II-level initiative.
A functioning administration would promote a unified message of strength, clarity, and resolve.
A functioning administration would have enough dignity and patriotism to...
We've likely all heard the cliche, "Every cloud has a silver lining."
Triteness aside, like most hackneyed phrases, it bears some truth.
Sometimes it takes a little effort to put a positive spin on unfortunate events, but...
The atrocities the Trump administration is guilty of committing at our Southern border are legion.
Sadly, with impeachment and the daily water torture to which we are daily subjected, the concentration camps in which we are...
Milton Mayer (1928–29) was a journalist, reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago American, and The Progressive.
In 1955, he published a seminal work titled They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 in which he analyzes how Hitler came to...
It's been one week since Donald Trump was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial, and he is wasting no time in demonstrating just how authoritarian his Republican enablers have encouraged him to be.
Days after acquittal, after...
The message is now loud and clear: anyone who fails to obey Trump will be swiftly punished.
Days after Donald Trump was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial, after reports surfaced he would go after those...
