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Below us was a crowd, men in business suits pressed together… the desire in those eyes and hands, each one searching for the feel, the touch, the connection with the force we call truth, as if through the shake of a hand, that which Sam Ervin had done could run into their bodies and erase their sins…

In Vietnam, Bob Woodward turned to journalism after witnessing the lies of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara about the war.

The candidates were asked: Would they vote for a presidential candidate who had been convicted of crimes?All 8 raised their hands.

… if such a massacre had taken place in a Jewish town.. Israel would have risen to its feet… (but) Arab society is soaking in its own blood…

Two conservative law professors say the original meaning of the 14th Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from the presidency for fomenting the January 6 insurrection.

Prof. William Baude and Prof. Michael Paulsen  conclude that former president Donald Trump must face judgment under Section Three, among others, if Article 3, 14th Amendment is  taken seriously.

House Republicans embrace the Jan. 6 insurrectionists as heroes and martyrs – on the day the former president is arraigned for federal crimes.

Dan Ellsberg died on June 16, 2023 after a life of courage and conscience that exposed the lies of U.S. military leaders in the Vietnam War.

Why are otherwise good, solid people attracted to movements like Gothard’s? How can they not see its controlling darkness?

Sy Hersh, a legendary reporter who paid homage to Dan Ellsberg in his last days, said:  “More than fifty years later, he was still pondering the war as a whole, and I was still trying to understand the My Lai massacre.”

… failure to raise the debt ceiling … would have more serious economic consequences than a government shutdown…

Christianity is becoming a political identity for many conservatives, posing risk the U.S. will become like present-day Russia or Iran.

Review of Not One Inch: America, Russia and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary E. Sarotte

Thomas Higgins rejects Christian nationalism: One can be a Christian or nationalist, not both. “Christians worship only one God, not the state.”

How did U.S. win the Cold War in Indonesia, so global capitalism became its way of life?   The Indonesian man said simply: “You killed us.”

Today, I boarded an American Airline plane in San Francisco for the cross-country flight to Indianapolis –  and in spite of the hundreds of  times that I’ve flown on a plane, I felt again that special thrill when I stepped toward the airplane door, glancing down at that crack of space opening up below my legs, between the edge of the fuselage and the movable entrance ramp, a crack that will become 35,000 feet deep when we are airborne.

The roots of American Fascism were apparent 20 years ago. "U.C. Berkeley's Professor Torture" John Yoo argued for legalizing torture under George W. Bush, then misinterpreted the U.S. Constitution to make the presidency into a  "unitary executive" -- now expanded by the Roberts' Supreme Court to install the irrational dictatorship of Donald Trump.

LONDON, Dec. 7 - The playwright Harold Pinter turned his Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wednesday into a furious howl of outrage against American foreign policy, saying that the United States had not only lied to justify waging war against Iraq but had also "supported and in many cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship" in the last 50 years.

Open Letter to President Clinton calling the U.S.-led effort at Helsinki, Paris Summits to expand NATO is “a policy error of historic proportions.”

Three days before President-Elect John F. Kennedy assumed the office of president in 1961, outgoing President Eisenhower reflected on his two terms and issued his memorable warning in a historic  televised Farewell Address.