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Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political...
“The Others” are always described with less charitable words by politicians and mass media.
It is not often that a best-selling author and correspondent on consumer, food, medical, and health issues comes up with an idea for all Eaters that...
Here are some examples of how these empires operate in tandem.
The U.S. government’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s annihilation of Gaza – torrents of heavy weaponry, diplomatic and political cover, and...
Public dissatisfaction with the dictatorial decision-making by the White House and the absence of congressional action is growing rapidly.
Joe Biden has long had a problem with PEACE – as in “ceasefires,” “serious peace negotiations,” and conditioning the transfer or sale of...
While calling this year’s presidential election against Der Fuhrer Donald Trump the most critical ever, the Democratic Party is using the same old...
The party shows the same old obsession with raising record amounts of money at the expense of presenting an authentic, vibrant agenda that will...
When it comes to “terrorism,”— defined as violence against civilians for political purposes—Palestinians have lost over 400 times more...
The Israeli government’s “solution” to the Palestinian problem – eviction or destruction and colonization of what’s left of Palestinian land...
Dear Mr. President: Willful avoidance does not exculpate your responsibility. There is no exception for the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is bound by...
With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly,...
Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive...
There has been so much reporting since October 7, but we are still missing answers for key issues.
Last October 27, I suggested subjects the mainstream media needed to cover relating to the saturation bombing of Gaza and its defenseless civilian...
Under several federal laws, the department has a policy prohibiting U.S. weapons transfers when it's likely they will be used to commit genocide,...
Among the puzzling questions that the media chooses to ignore is asking high government officials why they are exercising the illegal use of power...
In 2004 author George Farah exposed the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) as a creation in 1987 of the Republican and Democratic Parties to...
Here's how citizens in six key U.S. cities could jumpstart democracy by organizing debates themselves and daring the candidates not show up.
Part of Donald J. Trump’s public persona is to behave like a pouting tween. This trait was on display Tuesday night after the New Hampshire primary...
Savvy opponents can always count on Trump to bring out the worst in himself, against himself.
A teacher once said to me: “A society pays for what it values.” If so, our society values commercial entertainment, including spectator sports,...
Growing up corporate conditioned by the omnipresent values of aggressive commercialism over civic and democratic values is the lot of people...
Where is the hope? Where it always has been, in societies with deliberative democratic practices and traditions of civic engagement that lean toward...
The countries that straddle our tormented world are woefully unprepared to counter and prevent five Omnicides already underway or looming menacingly...
With the passing of Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe at the age of 86, our country has lost one of the greatest “extra-ordinary” physicians of the past half...
He was a fierce advocate of single-payer or full Medicare for All, without the present loopholes and corporatist takeovers, such as Medicare...
As a self-proclaimed observant, practicing Catholic, you have not only failed to heed Pope Francis' figurative encyclical regarding Gaza but are...
Congress is poised to send $14.3 billion to Israeli militarism—a “genocide tax” on U.S. taxpayers—without public hearings. What can be done to...
The unstoppable Israeli U.S. armed military juggernaut continues its genocidal destruction of Gaza’s Palestinians. The onslaught includes blocking...
In the midst of Netanyahu’s annihilation of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, many of them children, women and the elderly, there is a rising...
The judgment of history awaits as we continue to witness tje nightmarish visions of innocents being vaporized because of Washington’s unconditional...
The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli...
Biden can get more humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza simply by enveloping them with the American flag and daring Israel to delay, obstruct or destroy...
Dear Nikki Haley: You served lucratively on the Board of Directors of the Boeing Corporation from April 2019 to April
“It should never have happened,” an elderly Holocaust survivor of a Nazi death camp told the New York Times. He was
Netanyahu's right-wing government has unleashed a “unifying” genocidal war against every child, woman and man that comprise the 2.3 million...
John (Jack) Fitzgerald is no ordinary auto dealer. He communicates with consumer advocates. He started in the dealership business in 1956 and...
Congress should hold public hearings to get an answer to this question.
Dear Congressional Leaders Sen. Schumer, Rep. Johnson, Sen. McConnell and Rep. Jeffries: We strongly urge Congress to hold public hearings,
The message of Israeli peace groups’ peaceful solutions are drowned out by the media’s addiction to interviews with military tacticians.
By Jess Gill It’s clear that Britain’s National Health Service is failing. 7.6 million peopleare on a waiting list, and 41%
In the midst of extensive coverage of the war in Gaza, there are questions that the U.S. mass media should
If President Joe Biden were a pony, instead of a perennial warhorse (e.g., gung-ho for Bush/Cheney’s criminal destruction of Iraq), he would have...
Biden is skilled at shedding tears at memorials of grief in this country. But he runs dry when the recurring catastrophes befalling Palestinians beg...
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s horrific counterattack on mostly Israeli civilians and Israel’s hourly genocidal bombing on Gaza’s more...
"The cycle of violence expands, and what human rights advocates call “the open-air prison” of Gaza faces total obliteration by Israel."
By Norman Solomon Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden...
If only canes, walkers, railings and banisters were sentient, what would their message be to humans on Earth? “Prevention is the Priority,...