Alex Dunn It has been quiet here of late. I think that a brief pause to reflect on just how long 4 years can seem has benefitted us all. Such was the perceived length of Trump’s presidency, it seems appropriate to refer to the Trump Epoch. Here in Europe, as Inauguration Day approached, we waited…
Richard Silverstein One of the most stunning defeats in tonight’s primary voting across the country was that of long-time Congressional Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel in a NY primary. Engel, who served in Congress 32 years, chaired the House foreign affairs committee. Its role in bringing forward foreign policy legislation crucial to the Israel Lobby. Engel…
Stuart Lyle Was America ever really “great?” There are many blotches on our history going back to the days before the Articles of the Confederacy: the wanton destruction of Native American communities slavery of African’s on American soil the post-Civil War poll taxes the Monroe Doctrine of subjugation of Latin America dropping an atomic bomb…
Alex Dunn I have a long-standing fascination with the extreme political polarisation that I perceive exists in the USA. As an Englishman, I am no stranger to the tribalism that pits Tory and Labour supporters against on another (let’s set aside for now the spent force that is the Liberal Democrats). These are two sides…
Don Rose With impeachment proceedings about to begin there are more significant things to discuss than the media-inflated battle between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over whether he told her privately back in 2018 that a woman could not be elected president. Unfortunately it’s causing much consternation in progressive circles and much glee among their…
b. traven Interviewed on MSNBC’s All In, Bernie Sanders responded to Israel’s revocation of visas previously issued to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. He suggested that if Israel does not want US Congresspeople to visit, then perhaps they can also do without the billions in aid the US sends them every year. Referring to Israel’s…
Don Rose What’s up with ABC News? The producers of its Sunday morning talk show “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” are set to inflict us regularly with the “insights” of a pair of the most obnoxious former office-holders in a nation filled with obnoxious former office-holders. I speak here of the recently departed neoliberal Democrat…
P.J. Sullivan Why do so many people vote against their own interests? Because they are misinformed. Why are they misinformed? Because they get their news—and their views—from the media: CLIMATE CHANGE. Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts, heat waves are amply covered in the media, but as natural disasters, usually with no mention of the human activities…
Dr. Stephen Ray A few things to remember for those fretting and not celebrating last Tuesday’s election results. There was not a single pollster who gave the Democrats any chance of retaking the Senate. The question was always about the margin by which they would lose. Anything within 4 percentage in states which Trump carried…
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