A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.
UPDATED: U.S. support for Israel’s genocide against Palestine is rooted not only in campaign financing but other factors, including a rigid ideology stuck in the shadow of World War II, writes Joe Lauria.
The U.S. public should by now be realizing that instead of stopping genocide, U.S. institutional and media authority is actively stamping out cries to stop the mass murder being committed with U.S. complicity, writes Elizabeth Vos.
It’s commonly argued that private groups cannot break the First Amendment, except for “entanglement” between the private entity and the government and it looks like there was, writes Sam Husseini.
The White House backed surveillance reauthorization that, despite a fresh record of routine abuses, expands security agencies’ spying power, writes Kevin Gosztola.