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Those of us of a certain age remember well the 41 shots cops fired at unarmed Amadou Diallo on the stoop of his building in 1999. They mistook him for a serial rapist; but then tried to cover up their mistake by accusing him variously as a suspected mugger and a drug dealer. None of… Read more.
To paraphrase the catchphrase Biden’s former boss made famous: Yes It Can. Many thought that famous picture of US President George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah showed the polite gesture of a young president aiding an old king. In fact, it betrayed the geopolitical reality of an old king aiding a… Read more.
After all, while most Republican men are still kissing Trump’s brass ass, there was Cassidy Hutchinson giving congressional testimony that could seal his doom… It was one of the most dramatic moments in a presentation filled with them: Just before President Donald J. Trump went onstage near the White House last year and urged his… Read more.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
One ruling (on abortion rights) to bear them, One ruling (on voting rights) to ban them, One ruling (on gun rights) to kill them; and in the chaos (appellate lawsuits) deny them. In the throes of the Roberts Court where even justices lie. The Supreme Court’s infamous ruling that the Second Amendment grants Americans the… Read more.
Mike Pence’s most trusted staffers and advisers have voluntarily testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. And reports are that they all did so with not just his blessing but his exhortation. Yet Pence himself has not testified. And all indications are that he has no intention of doing so … voluntarily.… Read more.
At this point, Afghanistan is beginning to rival Haiti as the most godforsaken country on Earth… Heavy rain and strong winds were frustrating search and rescue efforts late Wednesday after a massive earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 and injuring more than 1,600, government officials said. A sudden downpour washed away roads leading… Read more.
Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But his martyrdom has made him as much the face of Pan-Africanism as MLK’s has made him the face of Black civil rights. This is why even I can appreciate the “closure” the return of Lumumba’s remains represents for his family. Never… Read more.
I’ve been in the vanguard of those calling on the UK government to extradite Julian Assange. This, after the Ecuadorian embassy infamously kicked him to the curb in 2019 for continually violating the conditions of his asylum in its London embassy. That’s where British police, who had been lying in wait for nearly seven years,… Read more.
The way China is huffing and puffing these days about blowing Taiwan away is raising alarms. Here is how The New York Times reported on Monday on its latest outburst: __________ China will not flinch from war if Taiwan takes a decisive step toward independence, and it does not trust the United States’ assertions that… Read more.
