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Walter Reed Diagnosis: Sondlanditis

Posted by Evan Sarzin on Nov 20, 2019 in Politics | 0 comments

Washington DC – – November 20, 2019 After Gordon Sondland’s testimony this morning, it looks like there has...

Two Facial Recognition Technology Bills Are Introduced in Australia

Posted by Kate Harveston on Nov 20, 2019 in Science & Technology | 0 comments

Image Source: Pixabay The Australian government made a big push recently to normalize and even...

Chile’s political crisis is another brutal legacy of long-dead dictator Pinochet

Posted by Guest Voice on Nov 20, 2019 in Latin America | 0 comments

Protest music in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 12, 2019. AP Photo/Esteban Felix Paul W. Posner, Clark University...

Trump’s assent to Israeli settlements could lead to apartheid, UN expert

Posted by Brij Khindaria, Foreign Affairs Columnist on Nov 19, 2019 in Breaking News, International, Israel, Middle East, Politics, Society, United Nations, United States | 0 comments

President Donald Trump’s decision to no longer treat Israeli settlements as being inconsistent with...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Cartoon, Column and Video)

Posted by Clay Jones on Nov 19, 2019 in Cartoons, Impeachment, Ukraine | 0 comments

Mr. Rogers did testify before the United States Senate. In 1969, President Richard Nixon was being tricky...

Colin Kaepernick wants to be a circus star.

Posted by David Robertson on Nov 19, 2019 in At TMV, Sports | 0 comments

P.T. Barnum would have loved Colin Kaepernick. The Greatest Showman valued anyone who could attract...

Tacking Early to the Middle

Posted by Evan Sarzin on Nov 18, 2019 in Politics | 0 comments

Another wild week in American politics, and that’s not counting the impeachment inquiry. It’s doubtful that...

Socrates and the Barbarians

Posted by HART WILLIAMS on Nov 18, 2019 in Authoritarianism, Government, Impeachment | 0 comments

Barbarians DO NOT understand civilization. They may understand “civility” (as in how to act in public) but NOT civilization. We see it in every action taken to stonewall, to fail to release documents. To order, in essence, one entire branch of our government to ignore congressional subpoenas.

Impeachment is gaining credibility but also making Ukraine more vulnerable

Posted by Brij Khindaria, Foreign Affairs Columnist on Nov 17, 2019 in Impeachment, International, Politics, Ukraine, United States | 0 comments

With the public hearings so far, a more convincing case has emerged to believe that President Donald Trump...

SINKING LIKE A STONE (Cartoon, Column and Video)

Posted by Clay Jones on Nov 17, 2019 in Cartoons, Impeachment | 0 comments

Yesterday was historic. We got to witness a public hearing in only the third impeachment inquiry in our...

Haiti protests summon spirit of the Haitian Revolution to condemn a president tainted by scandal

Posted by Guest Voice on Nov 16, 2019 in History, International, Race, Society | 0 comments

Jean Marcellis Destine, dressed as Haitian independence hero Jean-Jacques Dessalines, heads to a protest...

Impeachment Defense (Cartoon)

Posted by CAGLE CARTOONS on Nov 16, 2019 in At TMV, Cartoons, Impeachment | 0 comments

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Marie Yovanovitch, a Watershed in the Impeachment Hearings

Posted by Dorian de Wind, Associate Editor on Nov 16, 2019 in Authoritarianism, Democracy, Impeachment, Politics, Women | 0 comments

“‘My first tour was Mogadishu, Somalia,’ she said, signaling that she was no simpering élite, holding court at fancy dinner parties, but a badass woman of the world, who chose to serve her country in the more remote and dangerous corners of the planet.” – Susan Glasser on Marie Yovanovitch