"While hunger was already a massive, systemic problem in all 50 states before Covid-19 hit the U.S., domestic hunger surged during the pandemic." Joel Berg, Hunger Free America.   Nearly 40 million Americans…

America celebrates Labor Day – but are US workers winning? Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, says increased worker bargaining power could last longer-term. Dube says that numerous factors have…

Tȟašúŋke Witkó, known as Chief Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala band of Lakota (or, Western Sioux) was murdered on 05 September 1877 by a United States soldier when he resisted being subjected to…

Coming Soon To A State Near You The American Taliban, formerly known as the Republican Party, with full support from conservative fanatics on the Supreme Court, are rapidly expanding their methods of assault on…

Be a Link In The Circle Of Friendship   "People who look like me have been put in danger and have become targets. We are being attacked during a time where unity and togetherness…

  Bang The Drum Slowly   Army Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, steps on board a C-17 transport plane as the last U.S. service member to leave Hamid Karzai…

Lessons To Learn And Time Is Running Out. 20 Years And No Answers?   Two suicide [ISIS] bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans rushing to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport Thursday, transforming a…

Dramatic Change, With Accountability   UPDATED 2021.08.25 14:00 State Senator Brian Benjamin is New York's new lieutenant governor. Benjamin, 44, is Senior Assistant Majority Leader and serves as chair of the Senate’s Budget and…

On 24 August in the year 410, Rome was overrun for the first time in almost 1000 years. Visigoths led by Alaric I sacked Rome completely. Shocked cable news pundits at the time opined…

Playing the victim, like cowards usually do, Andrew Cuomo during his forced-resignation farewell did not directly blame the real victims of his sordid reign as governor of New York but he did the typical…

Attacks by Republican fundamentalists on women’s human rights in the US have accelerated over the past five-plus years. These attacks, obviously, are based on fear. Much like their brethren in countries such as Iran,…

Never Use Meds Intended For Animals On Yourself   You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it. U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) Twitter  August 21, 2021   There seems to…

Close Your Eyes And See   After 20 years, over $2 trillion spent, mountains of dead. What was it all for? On 1 October 2001, three weeks after the 9/11 attacks and six days…

Rainfall at the Peak of Greenland Ice Sheet for First Time on Record "What is going on is not simply a warm decade or two in a wandering climate pattern. This is unprecedented" Climate…

That all beings are great and all are part of and responsible to the whole is a world view based on the concept of Reciprocity and one which is fundamental to the Haudenosaunee of…

If This Was Scratch And Sniff You Would Smell The Horseshit   Rightwing Republicans and their media leaders have been quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies. In the…

The Blame Game, of course, has begun. Media outlets could not wait. They were forming at the mouth, ready to sell headlines and bylines, eager to forget what came before. And then they pounced.…

You'll Have To ‘Wait For Another Child To Die'   “That means if your child’s in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect ... and needs an ICU bed, or…

  Read Eric Boehlert (Pressrun) The media's weird obsession with Biden Delaware trips This is the Beltway press returning to normalcy after four years of deliberate chaos. And normalcy for the D.C. media means…