On the day Turkey’s authoritarian leader was welcomed at the White House - also the day public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump began - we thought it only proper to add Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s right hand man on immigration, and in polite caucasian circles a ‘nationalist’, has been outed once again, this time by his own history of emails, for the piece of shit…

So, last month, 9 October to be exact, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham demanded House committees release all impeachment transcripts from their closed-door depositions. And, said Graham, if refused he would call persons involved before…

UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump admin’s big ask: Help us kill the impeachment inquiry. Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller…

Over two dozen House Republicans stormed a closed-door House Intelligence Committee deposition where Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia was to be interviewed by members of three committees involved…

Republican Sycophant U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham Defends Donald Trump’s Vile Rant That The Constitutionally Legal Impeachment Inquiry Is A Lynching: “This is a lynching in every sense” The South Carolina Republican Once Again Shows…

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. and second in line of presidential succession) released a “fact sheet” breaking down Donald Trump’s “shakedown” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a “pressure campaign”…

House Dems Walk Out Of White House Syria Meeting; Trump Had Tremendous, Bigly, Best-Ever-Of-Any-American-President-In-The-History-Of-Presidential-Meltdowns 'Meltdown'

Representative Elijah Cummings, Democrat-Maryland 7th Congressional District, died early Thursday morning “due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges.” Mr. Cummings died in hospital in Baltimore. He was 68. More here and here

Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha.   Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…

Betrayal for the Kurds. Appeasement for Erdogan. Donald Trump will draw down U.S. military presence in northern Syria to make way for Turkish troops to wipe out the Kurds. Trump’s policy of appeasement toward…

Mona Eltahawy. Abigail Adams. JoeAnn Hart.   Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us…

On 1 October 1974, five of Richard Nixon’s cabinet went on trial for conspiring to derail the Watergate investigation: U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Kenneth Parkinson, Robert…

 John Pilger. Simone Weil. John Adams. The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.…

Mitch “Moscow Mitch” McConnell, Senate Majority leader (Republican-KY), said during a radio interview that people who gave him the nickname “Moscow Mitch” are not-nice hard-left people who just want to smear him. Hey Mitch,…