By now all of America is aware of the horror of the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Seventeen innocent students lost their lives, and an entire community was traumatized, all because a mentally unstable 19-year old was able to legally purchase an assault rifle.… Continue Reading
A government shutdown is just hours away. The worldwide Women’s March is set for tomorrow. And President Trump’s one-year inaugural anniversary falls tomorrow. So I think it’s a good time to take stock of where we’re at. As in, how exactly did we get to this cultural moment?… Continue Reading
I’ve already written a fair amount about the 2016 presidential race, particularly the Democratic primary. I also imagine that lots of folks are probably exhausted from wall-to-wall Trump coverage. “He’s a demagogue!”; “He’s speaks for a disempowered bloc of struggling white Americans!”… Continue Reading
The Obama Administration has done everything in its power to bury its long-awaited report on civilian casualties from illegal, extrajudicial drone strikes by releasing it on the Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend.… Continue Reading
By now it is widely understood among Sanders supporters that the mainstream media has been relentlessly pro-Clinton in its coverage of the Democratic race.… Continue Reading
Michael Hayden, CIA Director from 2006 – 2009, claims in a recent New York Times op-ed that the US drone program is “the most precise and effective application of firepower in the history of armed conflict.” … Continue Reading
Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist, intellectual, and political activist, wrote in his seminal book “Manufacturing Consent,” that the mass media “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function,… Continue Reading
President Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary in 2008 in large part due to his opposition to the Iraq War Resolution, which Clinton supported.… Continue Reading