Flashback: Michael Brenner envisions a conversation among four pundits of the imperium during the calamitous sack of Rome by Alaric’s Visigoths with a veiled reference to Trump’s America.
In the Remains of the Diocletian Baths
Category: Humor
The Guardian’s ‘Anti-Semitism’ Incident
With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap, writes Jonathan Cook.
Jerks
Michael Brenner explains why he will abstain from any further writing on the subjects of Ukraine and U.S. relations with Russia, China or the Solomon Islands.
The New Age of Faith
Based on his experience of the past several days, Michael Brenner says the Dark Ages are making a comeback.
FILM REVIEW: ‘War on the Dnieper’
The moral: nothing is as dangerous as a dim leader convinced of his cleverness by schemers selling nostrums that promise to etch his name in the history books forever, writes Michael Brenner.
WATCH: Stand-Ups for Assange: New York City
Following last weekend’s D.C. comedy show in support of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, the show traveled to New York City Sunday night. Watch the replay here.
WATCH: Stand-Ups for Assange
The Truth is a Joke Zionism Can’t Accept
Lawrence Davidson considers the conflation of an ethnocentric political ideology with Judaism, a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural religion.
Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style
Their operation was in jeopardy, their ‘business model’ at risk. Their reaction was typical for the brazen barons of finance, writes Michael Brenner.
LEE CAMP: What Biden Can Do Without Congress (But Won’t)
The new president could take executive action on many of the largest problems within the United States, right away, on his own.