Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Took a jaunt over to NBC News online for my fair share of abuse, and I wasn’t disappointed. Here are the top headlines there: “Biden administration faces pressure to step up its response to antisemitic...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Who knew mass death was such a growth industry? And by “death” I mean not only of humans but of any organism in a war zone. We humans are a self-absorbed lot. We blast the earth and obliterate life without a...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Today is Earth Day: a good day to commit ourselves to saving the earth from the ravages of nuclear war. Global warming may get us in the long term, but nothing will kill the planet quicker than a nuclear war....
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Surprise! The House has approved $95 billion in more weapons and war for Ukraine and Israel, along with a few billion tossed in for Taiwan. Ukraine gets the lion’s share of the aid, roughly $61 billion, while...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Today’s post has a simple goal: to praise TomDispatch, a regular, reliable, and highly effective “antidote to the mainstream media.” Its creator, editor, and chief author, Tom Engelhardt, founded the site soon...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Iran has responded with drones and missiles to Israel’s previous attack on its consular building in Syria, which killed senior officers in the Iranian military. The Iranian response seems to have done little...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The Biden reelection campaign tells me to fear MAGA and Donald Trump. I fear the Biden administration and its moral bankruptcy. It’s been a grim 48 hours in the Middle East, as summarized here by Caitlin...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Courtesy of Stephen Semler, let’s take a look at the federal budget recently signed into law by President Biden: The biggest boost in spending from 2023 to 2024 went to the Pentagon. Of course! Even though the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Early in 2003, Ashleigh Banfield was a star in the making. A rising journalist at MSNBC, she covered the opening stages of the Iraq War. Before that, she’d made a name for herself covering the 9/11 attacks and...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The U.S. government is complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Americans may think that “aid” to Israel is held up in Congress, more than $14 billion in death-dealing munitions and machinery of war, but in...
