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Abby ZimetCommon Dreams |
Wow. Just like the "very innocent" stable genius predicted, it turns out "even Mother Teresa could not beat these charges" - 'cause she too evidently...
With "one supreme act" of dying unquestioning in the name of war, said James Garfield on 1868's first Memorial Day, the fallen showed "the highest...
Apologies for re-visiting GOP lowlifes and their yammering Mad Emperor, but damn things are getting weird out there. Having ended his trial not with a...
As the dystopian movie Civil War sets records depicting the "colorful horrors of the American future" on its current trajectory, we saw the same...
Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel's "voracious death machine," its leaders now openly...
Happy Disinfectant Injection Day to the survivors who four years ago ignored the "stratospherically insane" advice, even for him, of a demented...
Okay all you naysayers whining shambolic House GOPers aren't doing their job just 'cause they're blocking border solutions, ignoring infrastructure,...
Kudos to Arizona's wingnut Supreme Court, who in their deranged upholding of an 1864 abortion ban so extreme even GOPers are fleeing it have dragged...
Lordy. Our apocalyptic circus of bigots, morons, loudmouths and clowns has stayed in town too long. To wit: a ceaseless GOP House "shit show," racists...
Mournfully - and astoundingly for those of us who so palpably remember it - we mark the 56th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King...
Honestly, we were going to mark the date with a spoof report - light in the darkness! - of Israel razing multiple pavilions at the upcoming Venice Art...
Well that was blessedly quick. Less than a week after NBC said it would pay fascist bootlicker and election liar Ronna McDaniel to bootlick and lie on...
Cruelty upon cruelty: Today is Mother's Day in Gaza, and across the Arab world. Still the slaughter, the wounding, trauma, hunger go on. Israel has...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJwCUHVgc0 entire last bonkers rally, starting with feckin j6 thugs and donald reading the pledge as he plays...
At the first school board meeting since the assault and death of non-binary student Nex Benedict in Oklahoma, parents and advocates blasted a culture...
As children in Gaza starve and rapacious capitalism, fractured governments and toothless international groups all fail to act, let it not be said that...
Given a fraught political landscape where totalitarian clouds loom, we celebrate House Democrats whose smarts and prowess may yet save us. Thus, did a...
Talk about a tale of two countries: This election year, with only fervid culture wars to offer, a fear-mongering GOP is hating on books, flags,...
Declaring, "We are outraged, we are heartbroken," hundreds of protesters turned out to block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union...
In ghastly images and videos, the world just watched a ten-year-old Palestinian boy starve to death as a result of Israel's crippling blockade of...
Defying fear and cold and threats of arrest, thousands of Russians came to pay their mournful respects to Alexei Navalny, long "living proof that...
Declaring "I will no longer be complicit in genocide," airman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire Sunday to protest Israel's annihilation of...
CPAC is back! Weirder, shriller, fringier, more paranoid than ever, with many empty seats but God allegedly still on the side of the cranks and...
Fresh off his latest legal triumph - payment due of $355 million - and his yuge win in historians' annual presidential ranking - dead last as Worst....
The grotesque madness of history's first live-streamed genocide persists, with Israel daily committing acts once unimaginable. How to recite them as...
Wow. Just when the times were feeling pretty dark, it turns out love still (sort of) makes the world go round. With his usual grace, the former...
Dear Lord. A blasphemous Super Bowl just broke right-wing brains: Team Soros beat Team Jesus. They sang a Black national anthem, Travis wore a sparkly...
As GOP House leaders trash as "a stinking pile of crap" a border deal that (unconscionably) gives them most of what they've demanded to "solve" a...
There's so much malignant idiocy abroad in the land we don't usually bother to stop and smell the stench. But the travesty of insensate Tom Cotton...
As Israeli atrocities persist - storming hospitals, forcing evacuations, patronizing a right-wing confab bent on expulsion of Palestinians, defying a...
Okay, we know there are far more substantive things going on. But we join the multitudes celebrating Schadenfreude Friday, when the lying, raping,...
Harrowingly, confoundingly, Gaza's horrors grow. Israel kills 250 people a day, attacks hospitals, bombs survivors in tents, blocks over 75% of...
We know, we know: Per Dylan, "It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there." Still, we call bullshit on that "historic," "landslide," "resounding" win by...
It's tough, in this bleak, bloody, foreboding time, to hold onto and keep faith with Martin Luther King's lofty vision of equality forged through...
In their historic case against "the ongoing slaughter of the people of Gaza,” South Africa opened its presentation at the Hague with what rights...
Sorry to be late - we've been busy reliving our glorious, bear-spray-tinged Jan. 6 triumph - but good news from on high about our beloved leader's...
Behold, in Gaza, there is no new year, just old afflictions - life in tents without water or blankets, point-blank death for grandmothers and...
Just months from the stupefyingly implausible (but still possible) re-election of a sick, inept Hitler wannabe who orchestrated "the most audacious...
After a tawdry, turbulent year that hit new depths of political dysfunction - lies, schemes, crypto-fascists in the House of Reps, never mind genocide...
Given the unholy dissonance, Bethlehem's usual celebration of the birth of a Palestinian Prince of Peace was cancelled this year as Gaza endured - and...
Sorry to those weary. But the horror in Gaza churns on, and we can't look away. Israel's emblematic killing of three of their own - pleading in Hebrew...
In a grim remembrance, the UN marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by warning of a Gaza that "sinks further...
Full disclosure: We didn't watch it. Honestly, we just couldn't. But we read some accounts, viewed some clips, looked at the pictures. It was enough,...
Slithering ever further down a timeworn slippery slope into fascism, Texas Republicans just took one small step for white supremacy by rejecting a...
In gratitude, we mark the death of Henry Kissinger, America's peerless war criminal. As U.S officials laud an "elder statesman" and "erudite...
To be clear, we welcome the modest mercies in Gaza: the "pause" in slaughter, release of hostages, freeing of Palestinian prisoners, most...