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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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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
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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,…
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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…
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"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…
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“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…
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“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…
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The whole structure of [Hitler’s] government has been aptly dubbed “authoritarian anarchy”. (more…)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Since taking office, Donald Trump has turned lying into an art form. UPDATES: 794 Days, Over 9,179. And Growing. Latest At 801 Days 9,451... Latest At 828 Days 10,111 and Still Growing... Latest At…
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George Carlin. Robert Elliott Gonzales. Hunter S. Thompson. Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think…
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On the day before Memorial Day, a day when we honour those who served and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, there is no way in hell we should pay respect to this POS…