Chip Berlet/Matthew N. Lyons. John Nichols. Ron Nixon. We have been studying the armed militias with a group of more than 100 analysts and reporters for many months. The issue for us was never…
It’s Over
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…
The Go-To Feeding Frenzy But With A Helping Of Selective Memories
Yes, the Biden Administration's drawdown of America's longest war has been messy; made especially frustrating by the non-stop replaying of videos of Afghan citizens desperate to be evacuated hanging on to the fuselage and…
Friday Learning Friday Honours
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…
Don’t See These Every Day
NO, They're Not Gender Reveal Balloons They're Octopus Eggs
Sun Setting On America’s Experiment With Democracy
According To U.S. Supreme Court, The Right To Buy An Election Is More Protected Than The Right To Vote In One The extraordinary lengths to which the Court has shown it will go to…
Kathy Hochul, Day One. UPDATE
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…
Charlie Watts RIP
Talent and Style Personified Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer for nearly 60 years, has died aged 80. Statement from his London publicist, Bernard Doherty: “It is with immense sadness that we announce…
Fall Of The Empire
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…
It’s What They Do
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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Genocide, Ecocide
Naomi Klein. George Carlin. Ward Churchill. Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry…
The Lady
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,…
Really? You Need To Be Told This?!?!
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…
Friday Awake In The Nightmare
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…
Let’s Face It. Were’re Screwed!
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…
Now More Than Ever
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…
Shift. Delete. Blame. Part Deux
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…
Shift. Delete. Blame.
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.…
Monday Ménage And A Plus 1
Philip Pullman. Zadie Smith. Giannina Braschi. Wendell Steavenson. The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again. When everything in public life has a logo attached to it,…
Killing America’s Children
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…
Marketability Is Master
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…
Friday Plea: Let’s Go Back
Myths That Never Exist Speaker Pelosi Responds In a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a small group of right-wing Democrats on Friday threatened to sink their Party's $3.5 trillion budget resolution…
Census 2020 By The #s: U.S. Less White, More Multiethnic, More Multiracial
White Folk Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered First Nations Peoples: Hey, How Does It Feel The non-Hispanic white population, which remains the largest race or ethnic group, shrank by 8.6% over the decade and now…
Is It Fair To Compare?
“It’s not about comparing them. It’s more about seeing what happened before in history and what’s happening now or in the last few years”. A new documentary takes a deep dive into the historic…
New York’s Next Gov
"I will fight like hell for you every single day" Well, Thanks Gov. Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul officially will be New York's first female Governor, in 13 days or sooner. Yesterday, as the world…
Gov of New York Andrew Cuomo Resigns. Bye, Bye!
The impeachment train was coming, non stop and at break-neck speed, on track to roll over this smug, bully of a pol leaving more than rail wheel marks across his way-too-fat ego. Read:…
Monday Ménage
Sandra Sealy. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Jessica Valenti. Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the…













