Upon learning of the Biden Administration's role in the 'historic' prisoner swap with Russia, which included, among 16 released by Russia, Evan Gershkovich – Wall Street Journal reporter; Paul Whelan – corporate security executive…
Monday Ménage: Tyrants. A Catcher’s Mitt. Realities of Democracy.
Abigail Adams. Maya Angelou. Elizabeth Warren. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion,…
WayBack Wednesday: No Gets Big Yes
‘Ohio saw through the con’: abortion rights advocates celebrate Issue 1 result Ohioans unequivocally rejected a ballot measure [Issue 1] that would have raised the threshold for amending their state constitution, a move…
Now or Never: The Annual
US of A: Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places ~ That all beings are great and all are part of and responsible to the Whole is a world view based on the…
Wednesday WayBack: His Words Still Front and Centre in U.S.
Watching, and listening to, insurrectionists heckle President Joe Biden during the State of the Union Address last night (video and transcript), I was reminded of the bad old days – the many bad days…
Wednesday WayBack: Unambiguous
There's much excitement about Thursday's Prime Time January 6 Committee Hearing during which we are promised to be witness to clear and precise details around the 178 minutes when the former president watched but…
Wednesday WayBack: Does History Really Repeat Itself? Well Kinda…
From what We The People have been told thus far, the January 6 Select Committee public hearings beginning in prime time tomorrow, Thursday, 9 June, 2022, will reveal the current state of U.S. Democracy,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Wretchedness, Resistance, Enfranchisement
Equiano. Wells-Barnett. Holder. O, ye nominal Christians! … Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? … Why are…
Wednesday WayBack: Comprehension and Accommodation
It wasn't a big secret. The signs were there. Even his friends and insiders who hated him (sometimes they were the same) saw it. But they looked at History and said fuck it. Maybe…
Never Forget: 1995.04.19
A terrorist attack on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people including 19 children and over 850 were injured. It was the deadliest act of…
Friday Serenade: The Shining Star We Need
ABA Gives Judge Brown Jackson Top Rating The American Bar Association on Friday rated President Biden nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as "well qualified" - its highest rating - to serve on the Supreme…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth and The Courage To Speak It
Frederick Douglas What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty…
Wednesday WayBack: America, Been Here Before
GOP Takes Dump On America, Again 'Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy in Ukraine. Pompeo, in a February 18, 2022 interview,…
Wednesday WayBack: History, Ain’t It Something
Writing at CommonDreams.org, Thom Hartmann asks the question on the minds of many Americans: Will US Turn Away From Fascism and Abandon This GOP Death Cult Before It's Too Late? Hartmann: The current Republican…
Friday Serenade: American Experiment, Crushed By Minority Rule
We Have Journeyed Far From Here ~ Supreme Court Blocks Biden The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its emergency rule mandating that workers at large businesses get vaccinated or undergo regular…
Wednesday WayBack: White Nationalists and Their Motherland
Moscow Mitch McConnell's outrage yesterday at Democrats' radicalism – fighting for the right for every eligible citizen to vote – is not anything new. Far-right Republicans have long turned to Russia and the former…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
Wednesday WayBack: Press Freedom ——— End To The Allusion
Entering A New Reality Upon the ruling by U.K.'s High Court to allow the extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questions about a free press in the United States of America…
I’m OK. Really…
Health Advocates Sue to Force FDA Decision on Petitions to Ban Phthalates in Food ~ While FDA delays, children and adults consume dangerous levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in foods. Health advocates represented by Earthjustice…
Friday Serenade: No Mandates For Manly Men. But For Women, Yeah, Mandate Life And Death
POS GOP Reject Vaccine Mandates for Men, But Same Cowards Demand Pregnancy Mandates for Women One way to explain these contradictions in Republican ideology is sexism. Right wing ideology is about male power and…
Wednesday WayBack: Backsliding In The USA
On Monday, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) published results of a study that finds the United States of America is a “backsliding” democracy. “The visible deterioration of democracy in the…
Backsliding, It’s All The Rage
“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019” No American – woke or unwoke, engaged or…
When An Image Tells The Story
Democracy Dies In The Home Of The Once Brave
Oxymoron: Republicans – Free Fair Elections
'Blatant Partisan Power Grab': Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Seize Control of State's Elections “They're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open” Wisconsin Republicans, at the urging…
Friday Serenade: Lotta Lotta Lotta Lotta Work To Do
Who CARES? They Did! Billionaires Received Taxpayer-Funded Stimulus Checks During the Pandemic In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with rare speed,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power and Impotency
Rousseau. Hegel. Hall. As soon as the act of association becomes reality, it substitutes for the person of each of the contracting parties a moral and collective body made up of as many…
Wednesday WayBack: Choices, Still. But For How Long
Early Thoughts On the American Coup of 2024 A warning about the very possible nightmare yet to come Background: Message from the Manila Hotel The message for democracy offered from the Manila Hotel…
Times Have Changed, But Battle Goes On
With Honour, Alice Paul. On 20 October in 1917 U.S. suffragette Alice Paul began a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women's Suffrage Amendment (19th Amendment - right to…
Grab That Cash With Both Hands
Molnupiravir. It's a pill. It's produced by Merck. Last week this little pill was hailed as the possible second coming. It's meant to cut the risk of Covid-19 hospitalisation in half for people with…