The way she looked at Trump that day When at the Summit him she spied, Would have made an eagle drop its prey Or any kind of predator turn aside. The portly ass could not have known That she was waiting for him, all eyes, To dissect him to the marrow bone, His ignorance of …
Once there was Rural Electrification, now we need rural Postal Service banks
Democrats Have a Huge Opportunity to Expand their Base and They’re Ignoring It
Check out the map of so-called Red and Blue states, and also note how in the Red states, most Blue voters are jammed into more densely populated urban centers while the rural counties are almost uniformly Red, ie: Republican. Now consider how important the Postal Service is in all that vast stretch of right-wing …
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Urgent news: Demand the immediate release of imprisoned activist journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now in His 40th Year as an Incarcerated Prisoner, Has Covid-19
Internationally known US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has reported to friends and family on the outside that he has contracted Covid-19 in the Pennsylvania prison where he is incarcerated, and says he is having difficulty breathing. His life is in immediate danger and he is in urgent need of hospital care. This latest outrage was …
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Joe Biden goes to war:
It Didn’t Take Long for This New President to Play Commander in Chief
Well, here we are just over a month into the new Joe Biden presidential administration and he’s already launched a bombing attack in Syria. That seems to be a required action for presidents these days, certainly dating back at least to the Barack Obama administration. Biden personally ordered the bombing of a border crossing …
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Dangerous Identity Politics + Capital in Divide and Conquer Maneuvers
Ecuador Socialist Party Takes First Round in Elections
Continuous resistance in October 2019 forced Lenin Moreno government to restore fuel subsidies. Photo Alejandro Ramirez Anderson. How Some Cubans Experienced the Recent Protests in Ecuador – Havana Times Rafael Correa’s-backed presidential candidate, Andres Arauz, won first place, 32.7%, on the first round of national elections, February 7. Arauz is the first presidential …
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Will this be maintainable?
Icelanders: Most Peaceful and Politically Conscious of People
Iceland nature. Creative Commons Photo. Shots were fired at a politician’s property recently for the first time in Icelandic folk’s memory. During the weekend of January 21-2, bullets from a .22 pistol were fired into Reykjavik Mayor Dagur B Eggertsson’s car and his office. He was not present in either occasion. Two men …
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Almost every income tax dollar goes straight to the military:
Spending and Sleepwalking Our Way to Armageddon
As of January 1 of this year, under the UN Charter, nuclear weapons have been declared illegal — both their possession and their use — putting them in the same status as chemical and biological weapons, but because none of the 86 signatory nations have nukes, and because all of the nine nations that …
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New drawing by Andy Myer:
Old Glory Trumpery
US-backed coup government ousted peacefully
Bolivia’s First Three Months of Pro-Socialist Electoral Victory
New Vice-president David Choquehunaca (l) and President Luis Arce Communtarian-indigenous based Movement toward Socialism (MAS) returned to power in a landslide election victory, October 18, 2020, thus ousting the rightest coup government backed by the U.S. (1) This is some of first quarter developments? Luis Arce, President Evo Morales’ (2006-2019) minister of economy and public …
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New TCBH! poem:
A(manda) BAB CDCD EFEF GG(orman)
Lo! Before the Capitol, when you took your place Before the same-old same-old weary throng, To see that star of timeliness in such a young face Made me feel, for that moment, even I could do no wrong! Amanda Gorman you made that moment shine, Your alliteration echoing down the Mall! My cynicism faltered on …