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…
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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”…

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…

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…)