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Israel and the Israel lobby allied with Trump and damaged the Democratic Party
by Donald A. Smith, PhD A version of this essay was published on Common Dreams as How Israel and Its Lobby Allied With Trump and Damaged the Democratic Party. There are plenty of principled,...
Don’t be a cuck for the CIA: Of course the U.S. government is lying about the war in Ukraine!
By Donald A. Smith. PhD Many progressive activists (e.g., Thom Hartmann) and groups continue to give wholehearted support for arming Ukraine to fight Russia; continue to oppose a negotiated resolution to the conflict; and...
STEP housing, equity, NIMBYism, and smart allocation of resources
The Washington State legislature passed several bills meant to encourage or force municipalities to equitably allocate land and money towards low-income housing. HB 1220 (2021) created the substantive requirement. Cities and counties planning under...
The Pentagon announces the U.S. Prayer Force
Department of War Announces Establishment of U.S. Prayer Force. New faith-based combat initiative will “restore spiritual dominance across all battlespaces.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of War today announced the establishment of the United...
Supporters of Israel will eventually regret that they allied with fascist Trump
The New Yorker published an intelligent, well-written essay The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism” (2025-09-29). I found the essay when I was searching online for analyses of the risks that Israel and its Americans...
On Ellen Brown’s “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame”
I asked ChatGPT and Grok: What do you think of Ellen Brown’s article https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/10/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-iran-and-the-bankers-endgame/ ? Brown’s story about banking de-regulation seems very plausible. But is the derivatives market really that large and fragile? And...
Do the rich pay fair taxes?
I saw on facebook the following image It was accompanied by this explanation: The left continues to promote false claims, which too many people believe. For example, it’s reasonable to debate whether the rich...
Beware of plausible but faulty justifications for war
Some people in the 41st LD Democrats tried, but failed, to pass a resolution in support of the Iranian people in their struggle for liberation from their government. The resolution did not mention Israel, the Palestinians,...
Bernie Sanders, please stop calling yourself a socialist. You’re a social democrat!
Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. But he’s not a socialist at all, not even a democratic socialist. Words matter. Use them carefully. Noam Chomsky and Cornel West say that Sanders is a...