Ieshia Evans shows us what truly is a hero. Evans is facing straight on a large number of heavily-armed cops at a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016 following the…
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Donald Trump likes to boast about his deal-making genius, about how he always comes away with the best deals in the history of deals. Well, as we have all witnessed over the past couple…

Five Year Anniversary Today. Remember When Republicans and Their Buddies In Corporate Media Went Bat-Shit Crazy and Tried To Create An End-Of-The-Republic Scandal Because President Obama Wore A Tan Suit To A Pressor? And…

Wednesday morning, hours after declaring people of Jewish faith disloyal to America and having a total lack of knowledge if they voted for Democrats, Donald Trump agrees he is the ‘Second Coming of God’…

Michelle Obama. Eleanor Roosevelt. Sheri L. Dew. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever…

This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him. Tom Morello

H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…

In the 24 hours since former special counsel Robert Mueller warned lawmakers about Russia’s past, present (they’re doing it “as we sit here”), and future meddling in America’s elections, of course much has been…

"Reference has been made to his “unpunctuality, his erractic work routine and his failure to keep appointments - a source of much embarraassment to party officials who usually found him in the late afternoon…

“In an effort to strengthen his hold on the party and to purge it of unreliable elements, Hitler established the Committee for Examination and Adjustment (Untersuchungs--und Schlichtungs-Ausschuss). This body, which came to be known…

“Most of the ‘intelligentsia’, apart from the minority of intellectuals forced into emigration, needed no terror to make them fall in line with Nazi ‘Gleichschaltung’ (or ‘coordination’). Indeed, ‘self-coordination’ applied to many sections of…

The whole structure of [Hitler’s] government has been aptly dubbed “authoritarian anarchy”. (more…)

Stacey Abrams. Ana Navarro. Frederick Douglass. When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued…

A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps On Friday 12 July 2019, Lights for Liberty, a network of activist organisations, is bringing together thousands of Americans to detention camps across the country, “into the…

Walter Cronkite. Candice Carty-Williams. C. Wright Mills. I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left…

July 1 recognises the creation of the Canadian Federation through the North America Act, which came into effect on that date in 1867

Nationwide Close the Camps demonstrations on Tuesday, 2 July. Find yours here

One of the cowards behind the VA MISSION Act of 2018, Phil Roe (R-TN), now wants his pet project - privatization of the Veterans Administration - speeded up (via H.R. 3083) so that Veterans’…

VoteVets is standing with Rags of Honor (a shop that employs homeless veterans) to honor the military service and sacrifice of the McCain family. At this year’s national Fourth of July celebration we'll be…

Winston Churchill. Oscar Ameringer. Pat Paulsen.   A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to…

A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the Monsignor how he had done. The Monsignor replied: “When I am worried about getting nervous…