It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political parties are already well into their campaigns to win US House and Senate seats in the 2026 midterm ...

Trump’s EPA to repeal core of greenhouse gas rules,” was the Reuters headline this week as Lee Zeldin, chosen by Donald Trump ...

I was listening to this NPR piece on the continuing rise in the stock market Sunday morning and was struck to hear this: “Despite the concerns about the ...

It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions always spurred by the ...

Starvation as a way of life.  Starvation as a way of death.  Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance.  As the state of Israel hums along ...

Trump often makes allusions to card playing when discussing his negotiations on various issues, but in the case of trade, it seems he is the one missing ...

July 29, 2025 Conservation advocates sue Flathead Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Stop Another Massive Clearcutting Project West of Whitefish, Montana Mike Garrity ...

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State. --James Angleton,(CIA chief of the counterintelligence department 1954-1975) I grew up in my ...

Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but the unsaid thing is that it is alright because that’s what those people do … – Omar El Akkad, One day, when it’s ...

This Podcast is reader-supported radio and it’s free to all. No ads. No trinkets. No bullshit. But the only way to keep it that way is for you to make a tax-deductible donation today.

How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are ...

I’m in France, in Toulon, visiting my daughter and her family. Summer on the Mediterranean – the heat, the light, the laughter of grandchildren – it all ...