Kit Knightly Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan yesterday. It was quite an event. People were asking “is this brinksmanship dangerous?”, or “Will the Chinese shoot down Pelosi’s plane?” Protesters took...

Mark Crispin Miller That subhead is no joke. Watch this video (tuning out, if you prefer, those two unnecessary giggler-commentators). The Speaker of the House is incoherent, evidently plastered...

Karen Hunt “Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.” Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children In The Silver Chair, book 6 of CS Lewis’s magnificent The Chronicles of...

Renée Parsons If given the choice between maintaining a toxic world of fear, pollution and violence controlled by the State or a society of prosperity and compassion based on...

Renée Parsons For those who believe that there is more to life than just the physical, material world, the role of karma is well understood. Popularly known as what-goes-...

Binoy Kampmark In this year of the presidential elections, President Donald J. Trump shows little sign of cowering. It had been some time in coming, but here was a...

Renée Parsons Despite an inadequate performance last week by Constitutional law experts before the House Judiciary Committee, Chair Jerrold Nadler released a unilateral committee report on Saturday entitled “Constitutional...

Renée Parsons There were two especially notable testimonys made during the recent House impeachment inquiry that should have been ‘nothing to see here folks, let’s move on’ except that...

Tony Kevin I have over several days reflected on the official White House record (also embedded below) of the Trump-Zelensky conversation on Ukraine-US relations on 25 July 2019, a...

Tony Kevin It is now clear that the US has manufactured a false case against Iran for the two-tanker sabotage incident in the Gulf of Oman on 13 June....

This is how America’s dictatorship works. This is not America’s exceptionalism: it is America’s ordinariness. America’s Founders had wanted to produce something not just exceptional but unique in its...

by BlackCatte The establishment is turning on the appalling Donald Trump. But is it Trump’s grotesque racism and misogyny that are going to condemn him, or the fact he...