Political cartoon by Andy Myer:
The good, the bad and the ugly
Some Thoughts on the November 3 National Election
First the good thing about the Nov. 3 Election outcome: Donald Trump, a wannabe tyrant who seemed to be consciously channeling Italian fascist Benito Mussolini with his balcony appearances at the White House, and Hitler with his brown-shirted and black-shirted federal goon squad in Porteland Oregon snatching demonstrators off the street and hauling them …
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It May Not Be Sunny in Philadelphia, But the Town’s Not Burning Either
This article originally was initially published in FAIR.org Philadelphia — I was awakened at 8 a.m. Wednesday by a worried call from a good friend, journalist and radical prairie activist Michael Caddell in Kansas. “Dave!” he said urgently, “Is Philly burning?” I groggily asked him what he meant? Had the closed Sunoco tank farm and …
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Take a stand and defend the vote on Election Day
Blatant Double Standard in US Media Reporting on Rigged Elections in US vs. Latin America and Elsewhere
When Venezuela’s popular leader, the late Hugo Chavez, won election to his four presidential terms, each time there were charges from the US that the elections were rigged in his favor. Those charges have grown worse since the popular socialist leader’s death from cancer when he was succeeded by his vice president Nikolas Maduro. …
50th country ratifies UN treaty banning nuclear weapons
Effective January 1, 2021 Nuclear Weapons Will Be Illegal
Flash! Nuclear bombs and warheads have just joined landmines, germ and chemical bombs and fragmentation bombs as illegal weapons under international law, as on Oct. 24 a 50th nation, the Central American country of Honduras, ratified and signed a UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Of course, the reality is that despite …
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Ain't gonna happen
Democratic Fantasy of Creating Two New States to Add Four New Democratic Senators
Establishment Democrats are suggesting that if they can get former Vice President Joe Biden over the finish line not with a squeaker of a win but with a landslide, and take solid control of the Senate too, they will be able to cement control of the upper house of Congress by adding four more Democratic …
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Could a Covid-19 infection act like a sodium pentathol injection?
Flash: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tells the Truth
In a shocking turn of events, Donald Trump’s latest media fabulist, Kayleigh McEnany, who kicked off her new job by telling a whopper to assembled reporters in the White House Press Room (“I will never lie to you”), and who has spent the rest of her tenure to date padding President Trump’s resume of …
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They're wearing masks in coal country, and no trashing Biden signs
In Pennsylvania’s ‘Trump Country’ Signs Say Enthusiasm for the President Has Faded
Fishs Eddy, NY — Driving from Philadelphia to our summer home in the Catskill Mountains region of upstate New York, my wife and I normally leave Interstate I-81 at the old coal-mining and railway center of Scranton, and head off on a meandering route on secondary roads through hill country passing farms, woods and …
False ‘progressive’ claim must be challenged:
Rep. Madeleine Dean Won’t Get My Vote for Re-Election
I voted enthusiastically two years ago for Democrat Madeleine Dean to represent the newly un-gerrymandered Congressional district in which I live here in Pennsylvania. An attorney who moved into politics and was a state representative in Harrisburgh at the time she ran for Congress in 2018, Dean sold herself as a new progressive voice …
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Time for a little truth about the economic crisis:
Screwing with the Unemployment Statistics By Dave Lindorff
Something is screwy about unemployment numbers coming out of Washington. In late July, just before the end of the supplemental $600 weekly checks for people collecting unemployment benefits, the New York Times reported that 30 million were receiving those checks. That’s 30 million laid-off workers who qualified for unemployment benefits, which is not everyone …
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