At the height of his popularity, in a move that destroyed his fame and fortune, Muhammad Ali refused to step up to the white line when his name was called. In so doing he was making it clear that he would not go to Vietnam to fight Washington's war. He refused to be...
Hillary Clinton Emailed Names of US Intelligence Officials, Unclassified
These are facts.You can look at the source documents yourself. This is not opinion, conjecture, or rumor. Hillary Clinton transmitted the names of American intelligence officials via her unclassified email.From a series of Clinton emails, numerous names were redacted...
Muhammad Ali, Fighter for Peace
When you get to be my age, you notice that people you have known about all your life are dying on a regular basis. David Bowie, Prince, and now Muhammad Ali. This is not an obituary, but a brief tribute to someone who overcame obstacles that I have never had to face,...
Muhammad Ali: A Profile in Moral Courage
“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong – no Viet Cong ever called me nigger.”With those pointed words, Muhammad Ali explained his opposition to the US war in Vietnam and justified his refusal to submit himself to the draft. He declared...
Obama Hands Corrupt Ukraine Another Billion US Dollars
One of the downsides of the US "regime change" business is that when you break it, you often have to buy it. It's all fun and games when you wander through the streets of Kiev with a bag of cookies encouraging the people to overthrow their government, or when you...
Lessons From Tina, RAF Reaper Drone Operator Who Likens ISIS to the Nazis
I have been meaning to discuss an article from the 4 May 2016 edition of The Sun for almost a month, but I have put it off in part because the whole issue is so utterly depressing. There have been a few different short pieces in mainstream media outlets featuring the...
Hawks Hand Hillary A Foreign Policy Blueprint: Will She Bite?
The neoconservative, Democrat-heavy Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has created a foreign policy blueprint for what they hope is a future Hillary Clinton presidency. Unsurprisingly, it is heavy on the "need" for the US military to much more aggressively...
Susan Rice: Too Many Smart White Guys on National Security Team Putting America at Risk
Actual Black Person and National Security Advisor Susan Rice told graduates at Florida International University in a commencement speech a week or three ago that the presence of too many “white, male, and Yale” personnel in America’s national security agencies she...
Bill Kristol’s Presidential Candidate: David French?
Pro-war pundit Bill Kristol is disgusted about Donald Trump being the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Indeed, Kristol has even been searching for someone to launch an independent or third-party campaign to counter Trump.Last weekend Kristol stirred up...

