I am relieved to know Finally there is a word for me You too Aren’t you? I see you are On the list Of those who Will receive a word (Albeit a lower list) We could share If you are willing This relief of knowing That Out of the blue There is something To replace …
Remembering Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Kept a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them
Cambridge, UK, Aug. 6 — Seventy-four years ago today, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of another 70,000 who died of burns and radioactive damage to their bodies …
The War Department's been lying about its spending for over two decades
Dave Lindorff Discusses the Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud on KMUD Radio
This past April, TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff won an “Izzy” award from the Park Center for Independent Media for a Nation cover story published last December exposing how the Pentagon has been brazenly and unconstitutionally lying for over two decades about its spending, and how Congress, unable to do any oversight because of this massive …
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Back
I just got back From a beautiful requiem. I’m not sure what died But I’m back now. And I am remembering how, As a teenager I would come home late, Drunk as a skunk and, Quiet as a moth walking up the screen Toward the light, I would tiptoe up the stairs and Collapse on …
Yes, it will take a tax hike to fund universal Medicare, but everyone will come out ahead
Stuck in a Rut of their Own Making, Progressive Democrats Need to Be Honest
Until progressive Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren forthrightly declare that Yes! socializing health care by making the government the single insurer of every American will require a hike in taxes, but that everyone will benefit in the final analysis, they will never succeed in winning over American voters one what polls show …
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Keeping this president busy is a good idea:
Let’s Just Let Trump Spend the Whole War Department Budget on Building Walls
Liberals are upset that the new Supreme Court, packed with conservatives, has decided President Trump can have $2.6 billion of the Pentagon’s new FY 2020 $738 billion budget to build some wall along the Mexican border. But I think they’re thinking all wrong about this. Instead of complaining and fighting a losing battle against Trump’s nutty …
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Trump's AmeriKKKa
Presidential Racism: Shining Example Of America’s Somber Status Quo
Donald Trump is an asshole – as in a definition of that body part descriptor applicable to an irritating personality disorder: a detestable, spiteful, stupid person. The now former British Ambassador to the United States described the 45th U.S. President as “a very stupid guy” and a “pompous fool” – polished phrases consistent with a …
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The swim hole
In the woods If you stop on the bridge And roll your window down You can hear a far off thunder That’s it and if you park Just off the shoulder And follow the path That will appear You will soon see A brightness through the trees Not the water hole itself But a patch …
To paraphrase Yogi Berra: 'It's 2016 deja vu all over again'
Corporate Media’s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states …
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Hong Kong and Puerto Rico:
Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island …
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