Politics, Opinion and World Events from a Progressive Perspective
Yesterday, a RyanAir flight was diverted from its original flight plan, destined for Lithuania, by a Belarusian Mig-29, forcing the Irish-registered airliner to land in Minsk, the Capital of Belarus.…
A body wrapped in flames, running aimlessly and hopelessly, groping for help among the crowd Since “the Crisis in Venezuela” ostensibly became a “crisis”, a crisis largely created and amplified…
Prior to Hugo Chavez taking power in 1999, Venezuela’s leadership was predominantly white and relatively conservative and did not reflect the majority of the population. There was rampant poverty, crime…
It is, according to Nobel Laureate Economist, esteemed professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Center, Joseph Stiglitz. The brain-child of obscure and mediocre economist Friedrich Hayek,…
In an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people, their homeland currently under siege by the state of Israel, an estimated 10,000 people marched yesterday to the Israeli Consulate in…
The United States is complicit in Israeli war crimes and continues to stand on the wrong side of history. With each civilian or non-combatant target the state of Israel destroys,…
By James Daly, Ph.D The western mainstream media, along with many in positions of influence and power in these same western nations such as Germany, are framing the ongoing Israeli…
By James Daly, Ph.D The following video is quite disturbing and nothing more needs to be said to describe the true nature and character of the Israeli state and its…
By James Daly, Ph.D I remember it well, the US-backed coup in Chile that overthrew their democratically-elected president Salvador Allende. Richard Nixon’s CIA’s covert operation was a test drive of…