The USA is a democracy, dammit!

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Laurence J. Peter

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What price the “special relationship”?

Let’s talk turkey.

Where is the humanity? Where the compassion?

Poverty in the USA is the focus of a deeply disturbing report that the Trump Administration will ignore.

58 deaths that could have been prevented

Wake up America!

Donald Trump’s latest cunning plan…

…weapons of war on the streets of US cities.

The White House’s distorting mirror

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

Rooting out torture

The moral imperative against torture seems obvious. And yet there is public debate about its legitimization. But justify torture, and the floodgates open for horrendous crimes that stain the world’s conscience.