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Jean Luc Melenchon is doing well with French voters, while his chief rival, arch-rightist Marine LePen, is not. White-bread centrist president...
He has blockaded Cuba, and now he’s expanded the sanctions. Donald “Uber-Capitalist” Trump is relentless in his war on this tiny nation of 11...
With official numbers of U.S. unhoused hovering around 700,000 and the reality being much, much more, former president Genocide Joe Biden got one...
On April 24, congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced that she “just introduced the Ban Warehouse Detention Act.” This is an excellent idea. As Tlaib...
Four senators raised doubts April 17 about Donald Trump’s stratagems for cryptocurrency, aka a stablecoin, in Gaza. Their press release that day...
When the Chinese tanker, Rich Starry, defied the U.S. blockade April 14 by going through the Strait of Hormuz, it redefined the blockade. This easy...
Over the weekend, vice president J.D. Vance sojourned to Islamabad to negotiate an end to the Iran War. Given that the U.S. and Israel sabotaged the...
Israel is losing on all fronts. And it’s not just multiple Merkava tanks incinerated by Hezbollah or Tel Aviv high-rises pulverized by Iranian...
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Previously unthinkable, amazing developments are afoot in the hyper-capitalist terror state that aspires to rule the world. On March 17, el jefe...
While halfway around the world Hezbollah and Iran are beating the living daylights out of Israel, here in our own hemisphere, superintended by a...
It’s time for the so-called new left to wake up to the existential threat posed by AI. The only U.S. politician cognizant of this stupendous danger...
It may be pointless to keep repeating that the U.S. attack on Iran was inane, but let me mention this: the U.S. attack on Iran was idiotic. As British...
ICE currently detains hundreds of migrant children, many for over 20 days, and if you thought Kristi Noem’s deserved firing from the Department of...
So Donald Trump finally did it: he started a major war on Iran at the behest of the Israel lobby. Already U.S. bases in the Gulf states have gone up...
Donald Trump’s barbaric blockade of Cuba began on January 29, and already China, Vietnam, Mexico and Russia have stepped up to help. Especially note...
The women’s movement sprang into the world from 1960s and 1970s leftism, a leftism that was, not to put too fine a point on it, blatantly male...
Donald Trump may be able to claim credit for opening the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt – thus allowing potentially thousands of Palestinians...
The U.S. and Israeli regime-change op in Iran flopped in January, to the shock of Washington and Jerusalem. Tehran was reportedly on the brink of...
Since Donald Trump took office in 2025, ICE has murdered at least 34 people in the U.S. It has deported 623,900 people. Those are not negligible...
China may have paused its rare earth ban in November, but such a sanction remains a sword of Damocles over U.S. arms manufacturers. Nor is it...
Until recently, Zionists liked to say the Israeli/Palestinian fiasco was “insoluble,” and they were saying this well before October 7....
Insults, slurs, nasty comments and contempt for Social Security sprout up everywhere these days in Washington. Although Trump himself insists he will...