Flood-prone Houston was woefully unprepared for days of torrential rainfall. Its drainage system can’t handle it. Its regulatory policy is lax. Its overdevelopment eliminated green space. Its damaged oil refining, fuel and chemical facilities exacerbated…
Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are greatly exacerbated by America’s neglected infrastructure nationwide – a deplorable situation unaddressed by Republicans and undemocratic Democrats alike for decades. Poor maintenance, aging pipe networks installed up to a…
According to London’s Guardian, “US intelligence officials are under pressure from the White House to produce a justification to declare Iran in violation of a 2015 nuclear agreement” – despite no evidence suggesting it. The…
US cable and broadcast channels scheduled its coverage. So did PBS, NPR, the BBC and CBC. All or parts of it can be watched on C-Span, local TV stations nationwide, YouTube, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon…
America indisputably is the world’s leading human rights abuser - a rogue state masquerading as democratic Its endless wars of aggression speak for themselves. So do its homeland police state laws, targeting designated enemies of…
The myth of an anti-establishment candidate vanished straightaway in office. He’s a dirty politician like most others in Washington - saying one thing, doing another, causing enormous harm to millions at home and abroad. Demagoguery,…
When US and Israeli leaders meet, nothing beneficial for Palestinians follows, their fundamental rights paid lip service to alone. Expect nothing different this time, Trump perhaps shaping up to be the most one-sided pro-Israeli US…
London’s Guardian reported things backwards, blaming Donbass victims for aggression committed against them, along with calling Russia “newly emboldened by the election of Donald Trump…” In late January, Ukrainian military forces escalated naked aggression on…
Designated terrorist groups are excluded. Combating them continues until Syria is free from their scourge. On December 29, Vladimir Putin said “(r)eports have just arrived that several hours ago there was a development that we…
Time and again I’ve stressed America’s political system is too debauched to fix - fantasy democracy, not the real thing, a money-controlled one-party state with two right wings, exclusively serving the nation’s privileged few at…
