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…
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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…

Reporters Without Borders 2021 World Press Freedom Index The United States moved up one spot in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, from 45th to 44th. That's 45th out of 180. What an achievement!…

Appointed by President Joe Biden just two months ago to serve as Special Envoy for Haiti, Daniel Foote has submitted his resignation, effective immediately. The letter is addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

On this day, 17 September in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states. Beginning…

  "While hunger was already a massive, systemic problem in all 50 states before Covid-19 hit the U.S., domestic hunger surged during the pandemic." Joel Berg, Hunger Free America.   Nearly 40 million Americans…

Close Your Eyes And See   After 20 years, over $2 trillion spent, mountains of dead. What was it all for? On 1 October 2001, three weeks after the 9/11 attacks and six days…

That all beings are great and all are part of and responsible to the whole is a world view based on the concept of Reciprocity and one which is fundamental to the Haudenosaunee of…

From left: Republican House Reps. Kevin McCarthy of California (minority leader), Jim Jordan of Ohio, Jim Banks of Indiana.   More to the point: Traitors to their Oath, Traitors to the Constitution And Always…

Suddenly, right-wing Republicans and their lying brethren in bullshit-media outlets have decided getting vaccinated might not be all that bad, that getting the shots just might save your life. What changed? After months and…

According to a news report from The Guardian, Russian president Vladimir Putin launched a secret multi-agency effort to interfere in U.S. democracy with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the White House. The…

Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Texas And Other States Is No Big Deal, That There's Time To Turn America's Traitors Around…   Then Remember This…   In…

Coincidence? There's No Coincidence In Politics! On 6 July in 1854, the Republican Party was officially organized in Jackson, Michigan. On 6 July 1923, the Central Executive Committee accepted the Treaty of Union and…

It's now old news that Senate Republicans blocked an investigation into the 6 January insurrection and deadly attempted coup by Trump-supporting armed domestic terrorists whose mission included hanging the Republican Vice-President, Mike Pense. "If…

Last month, when Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell blocked passage of a bill to create an independent investigation into the January 6 rightwing insurrection/deadly riot – five dead and 140 police officers injured,…

When You Fail At Your One Job A television host on the Fox Propaganda Network said he had read Adolf Hitler's manifesto “Mein Kampf” as it was part of his high school curriculum. It…

U.S. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), at times called 'Moscow Mitch' – and this is one of those times, has filibustered voting rights legislation, halted a pay gap measure, threatened to block a…

The Korean War began on 25 June 1950, when 75,000-plus soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the…

So, Senate Republicans kill For the People Act, the legislation that promised to protect American citizens' right to vote, thereby saving a fragile U.S. democracy. But all 50 senate Republicans said NO! All 50…

Honour Our Veterans and Active Duty Military. Save Their Lives A new report by Brown University's Costs of War Project reveals post-9/11 wars launched by the U.S. military since 2001 have resulted in over…

On 17 June 1894, the first polio epidemic in the United States broke out in Rutland, Vermont. It wasn't until 26 April 1954, when mass trials of Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine began, that the…