The nation’s lone Iranian American Representative in Congress, Arizona’s Yassamin Ansari, had a measured and well-thought-out response following the announcement of the death of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following United States and Israelis airstrikes today. Posting on social media, Representative Ansari wrote: “Khamenei was the epitome of evil. For decades, he oversaw the torture, imprisonment, … Read more
This is what happens when people who are not well-versed in history elect right-wing authoritarian-messianic types who promise greater public safety, less taxes, and lower prices, and all they deliver are economic mayhem, division, persecution, and international chaos. Early this morning, United States and Israeli forces, in an operation called Epic Fury, bombed Iran under … Read more
Everything about Donald Trump and MAGA is turning back the clock to periods in this nation’s history from the 1890s to the 1920s, when the plutocrats, in a Gilded Age mentality, reigned supreme without worry of the social safety net, white ethnocentrism/racism was permissible in most parts of the country, and nativism-anti immigration was acceptable … Read more
Here we go again. We have seen this movie before. Before it was 9/11, weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq Now it is 10/7, a nuclear program, and Iran. In 2001 and 2003, we had a weak minded and ill informed President, George W. Bush, manipulated by false intelligence narratives and eager nation building on … Read more
Today (April 14, 2021,) President Joe Biden, the fourth American Chief Executive presiding over Military Involvement in Afghanistan, announced that he would not pass on that responsibility to a fifth American leader and said he would start the withdrawal of the remaining United States troops from that nation on May 1, 2021. The President cited … Read more