Greetings for Diana Buttu
June 3, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A few days ago, a not so well-known Palestinian woman received an unusual honor
Mosul’s “Liberation”: Another Fallujah, Dresden – or Hiroshima?
June 3, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli." (Howard Zinn, 1922-2010)
Observations and Impressions from Russia
June 2, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For over two weeks this May, a delegation of 30 Americans visited seven regions and ten cities across Russia
The Visitation
May 27, 2017 9:45 pm Leave your thoughts There were two Donald Trumps this week. One of them was touring the Middle East, being feted everywhere. The second was in Washington, where he was battered from all sides
Theresa May overcomes parliamentary disapproval and proposals to reach her goal of triggering Article 50
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsA cartoon by Cris Brooks
Silver Foxes
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Tally and also Ho! Sound the horn, unleash the hounds. We must arise and protest that flimsy Tory manifesto. Not because it goes too far. Nope, it just doesn't go far enough.
Syria: Trump’s Tomahawks, Double Standards – Using Chemical and Radioactive Weapons for Profit?
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In a nauseating irony, exposed by the Palmer Report, Trump may have profited from the deaths he caused.
Reactive Mismeasures: The New Yorker and the “New” Cold War Propaganda (Part 3)
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This is the third part of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on a recent article posing as journalism in the March 6, 2017 issue of The New Yorker
President Trump, a former entertainer, plays the part of the world’s jester, while cutting an evil clown grin
May 20, 2017 6:31 pm Leave your thoughtsA cartoon by Cris Brooks
Parliamentary Riffraff
May 20, 2017 5:17 pm Leave your thoughts When Adlai Stevenson ran for the presidency, he was told "Don't worry, every thinking person will vote for you." "But I need a majority," Stevenson famously replied.