As we have said HERE – Republicans are lying to you about the debt ceiling.  Republican idol – President Ronald Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times and he understood that this wasn’t an optional issue.  Today – Reagan would be a Democrat.  If Republicans block raising the debt ceiling – the whole world will [...]

In 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson pushed through a Constitutional Amendment to give women the right to vote.  It only passed with 56 votes in the Senate before being ratified by the necessary # of states to become part of our Constitution (

You’ll often hear the term “right of return” as the discussion of peace for Palestine/Israel negotiations.  ”Right of Return” for Palestinians will never happen of course but the story of Nakba explains why the Palestinian people still talk about their “right of return” which Israel denies them but simultaneously offers to any Jew who has [...]

  The concept of wage slavery is one that is commonly contested, by left- and right-wingers alike. It is often assumed that it is intended as a degradation of the hard working people of the world — but it is more just a recognition of reality. Most people object to being told that they are [...]

“The business of the government is the business of the people.” ~JFK  Just think about the forces that Kennedy was fighting during his administration.  He had to fight for paying overtime to workers.  He had to fight for Social Security.  Everything he did led up to the eventual passage of Medicare under Lyndon B. Johnson. [...]

If you don’t expect to see what you’re going to see, you weren’t paying attention when the US tried to create a regime in VietNam – you certainly haven’t been paying attention to Afghanistan for the past 11 years. You’re left at the end to consider on your own a comparison of the mess we [...]

  All too often one hears something along the lines of “It may not be perfect, but it’s the only system that works in reality.” or something of the like, as justification for a system that demands war, poverty, exploitation, and ultimately a worker’s life and labours – in short, Capitalism.  From both sides of the [...]

Think this only showed on US television? Unfortunately, American practices versus American PR campaigns over the years make the difference. We haven’t especially worked at defending anyone from dictatorship since World War 2 – especially when the dictator or monarch replacing early attempts at democracy postwar have been enabled with US connivance. The whole world [...]

Any regular visitor here knows well of my feelings about the misuse of military power by our country and others, over time, over history — and today. I joke a bit about being a citizen of Earth more than I am of any political entity. But, I have always respected the charge of non-disclosure sacred [...]

Mike Culpepper gives us some background on Buzludzha HERE: Buzludzha is a mountain in Bulgaria that has seen a number of historic events. In 1441 the Turks were defeated there and driven from Bulgaria. In 1891 Bulgarian socialists met there clandestinely and organized. In 1981 the ruling Communist Party erected a huge monumental building, memorializing [...]