With idle tales this fills our empty ears;The next reports what from the first he hears;The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,Each author adding to the former lies.Here vain credulity, with new desires,Leads us astray, and groundless joy inspires;The dubious whispers, tumults fresh designed,And chilling fears astound the anxious mind. -Ovid’s Metamorphosis While the…
Everyone has a limit. Everyone. And when pushed to that limit we all have a choice, push back or submit. Tony Bobulinski reached his. And it has doomed the Democrats’ chances in this election cycle regardless of what happens on Tuesday. In his widely-censored interview with Tucker Carlson Bobulinski’s ‘disgust circuit’ was on full display….
Its very clear that various competing interests and factions within the US political establishment are pushing different agendas and strategies. These differences often play out on a regional basis. Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, was relatively unknown on the national stage as Governor of Indiana, until Donald Trump selected him to…
War is mass murder. Speaking out against it is more important than people’s emotional comfort. It’s worth disrupting family dinners over. It’s worth jeopardizing friendships over. History won’t look kindly on those who chose silent complicity over anti-imperialism. ~ I still regularly stop and gawk at the fact that a US imperial ally is committing…
What I think of as the cynical left are once again berating the progressive critical left, myself included, for failing to write what they want written about Covid-19. I take this as a kind of unintended compliment: that they think we can write about their concerns better than they can themselves. But even if I…
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the ruling classes, the French people have relentlessly been doing the same; both peoples have been met with police violence and arrests….
