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Politicians are known to break promises, but Kennedy's record, 1 year in, has been a failure by most measures, especially his own.

US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

“The Omani FM decided to go public,” suggested one observer, “so that the American people knew that peace was within reach when Trump instead opted for war.”

Black History Month insists that the struggle for justice did not end with emancipation, federal civil rights legislation, or symbolic inclusion. It reminds us that understanding the past is not about guilt or grievance, but about responsibility.

The pedophile plutocrat had some peculiar predilections—especially for academics and thinkers who showed a potential to further his grand experiments in inhumanity. Epstein didn’t pull people into his web and then corrupt them. The club existed.

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Even King George needed the approval of the British Parliament before he could wage war against the rebellious American colonies. Trump has remained mum as he orders the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The billions that Amazon steals from American buyers and sellers are the source of the millions that Bezos uses to support Trump's fascist takeover of America.

This BBC documentary has never aired in the USA, and probably never will. But, as Stephen Colbert recently proved with his James Talarico interview, Trump’s stooges at the FCC can’t prevent video clips from being shared online.

Putin dusts off millennia-old chronicles, finding in them proof of his reactionary utopia, his imagined historical right to possess Ukraine. Let’s talk about the most underestimated cause of this war — ideological obsession. The Russian idée fixe.