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Indies Gather to Proclaim ‘Both Sides Do It’

Journalists such as former New York Times reporter-turned-independent Chris Hedges helped drive home the broad message of the recent Independent National Convention (INC) in Austin, Texas. That …

Trump’s Al Capone Moment

The Prohibition Era mobster and thug Alphonse “Al” Capone comes to mind as we see the man who incited the January 2021 Capitol insurrection, among other misdeeds, finally face a criminal charge: …

What if Democrats Were Republicans?

The Democratic Party is starting to look like a deranged cabal of grifters, sexual deviants, and constitutional ignoramuses.   But enough about why its support among its rank and file is still …

Blarney is Irish for sweet talk that aims to charm or flatter as “he had the street charm of an Irish politician, but this blarney concealed his inner truth.” Joe Biden was very good at blarney …

Joe Biden’s French Lesson

For many, perhaps most Americans, France’s days of political rage are a perplexing phenomenon. Those silly French are acting out again, taking to the streets, striking over having to work two years …

In April, three Hollywood museums commemorated the 75th anniversary of a dark period in film history: the Hollywood Blacklist. A series of film screenings, panel discussions, and exhibits looked at …

By JOEL D. JOSEPH

Reservoir manager Ken Beck says wryly that he has lots of water coming his way, “and I need a hole to put it in.” In southern Colorado, Beck is the superintendent of Pine River Irrigation …

by Greg Palast, with Comic Book by Ted Rall.

Hell yeah, Black Lives Matter. Big time. Right now probably more than at any moment since the Civil Rights movement years of the 1950s and ‘60s as racism insidiously resurges in our currently …

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