Russia

Trump Proves He Has Putin’s Back By Gutting Pro-Ukraine Provision In Republican Platform

Trump Proves He Has Putin’s Back By Gutting Pro-Ukraine Provision In Republican Platform

With all the drama surrounding the opening night of the RNC, radical (and dangerous) changes in the Republican Platform got…

8 years ago

Genocidal Tendencies Do Not Make Trump and Putin Christian Champions

One of Trump's devoted followers would have you believe Trump is a super-Christian, but Trump echoes the Old, not the…

8 years ago

UN Security Council Announces Road Map for Peace in Syria

The UN, if not the GOP, has announced a cohesive peace plan for Syria, one that does not involve carpet…

8 years ago

The World Can’t Afford Donald Trump: Narcissist-in-Chief

The world has many conflict hotspots, but a narcissist like Donald Trump would make them about himself, rather than what's…

8 years ago

Barack Obama Faces Down Vladimir Putin in a Cold War Redux in Syria

Putin says Assad is best placed to defeat the Islamic State, but Assad is more interested in helping IS defeat…

9 years ago

John McCain Tag Teams With Morning Joe To Label Obama’s Foreign Policy As “Delusional”

On Monday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did what he does best, which is preen for the cameras and make…

9 years ago

Pew Report Details the Sorry State of Religious Tolerance in the World

Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as…

9 years ago

Boehner Is A National Embarrassment For Comparing America to China and Russia

The problem with Boehner is that he is so accustomed to lying and making a laughingstock of himself, that he…

9 years ago

Before Announcing Departure, Jon Stewart Mocks Fox News’ Newfound Love For Muslim King

Prior to making the announcement on his upcoming departure, it was business as usual, as Jon Stewart once again aimed…

9 years ago

Not Only The Great War But Our Perceptions of it Have Created Our Modern World

The Great War has cast a long shadow and we are living with its effects today, as much from the…

9 years ago

Republican Warhawks And Arms Lobby Unite To Undermine US On World Stage

President Obama has been clear in his advocacy of sensible gun reform at home, as well as balanced global demilitarization.…

9 years ago

Wesley Clark Calls for a New National Strategy to Unite and Move us Forward

Clark outlines the challenges facing us, which together, he argues, "are exactly the grounds over which a national strategy must…

9 years ago

Beck Compares Revelation of Chris McDaniel’s Racism to Bogus Protocols of Elders of Zion

There can be no possible comparison between what was said about McDaniel and the Protocols, because what was said about…

10 years ago

Do Other Countries Really ‘Hate’ Obama as the Right Claims?

Oh, how they hate Obama. I mean 'hate' with a capital "H." We're talking about most of the world's population.…

10 years ago

John McCain Predictably Blames Obama For Iraq Violence And Calls For Widespread Firings

During an interview on Morning Joe Friday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predictably placed the recent flare-up of ethnic violence…

10 years ago

John McCain Bangs the War Drums While Calling Obama ‘Most Naive President In History’

During an interview with Arizona radio station KFYI on Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called President Obama 'the most naive…

10 years ago

Did President Obama Really ‘Miss an Opportunity’ by Avoiding Sochi?

The White House's decision to let the athletes do their thing while avoiding overt support of a regime that has…

10 years ago

Republican Bigots Place Their Hopes in Saggy Man Breasts and a Cross

Our problem is less with Putin's fashion-sense or homoerotic subtext, than with the nonsensical nature of Republican arguments in favor…

10 years ago

Vladimir Putin is Every Republican Bigot’s Wet Dream

The kid gloves have come off and these Republicans who cheer for Putin while condemning Obama have shown themselves not…

10 years ago

Gay Hating Evander Holyfield May Have Taken One Too Many Punches

In the British version of "Big Brother", former heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield uses the bible to rip on homosexuals.

10 years ago

When It Comes to Homophobia, Not Much Separates Neo-Nazis and Conservative Christians

Now that the charade of Phil Robertson's pretend suspension is over, homophobes nationwide can rest assured that their "right" to…

10 years ago

President Obama’s Big Gay Message to Vladimir Putin’s Sochi Olympics

It is difficult not to think back to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and what his triumph said…

10 years ago

Russian TV Star Wants to Throw Gays into Ovens – ALIVE

"I'd put them all alive in the oven," Okhlobystin told his fans. "It's a living danger to my children."

10 years ago

John Boehner Is Trying to Emulate Vladimir Putin’s Assault on Homosexuals

John Boehner is doing his best to help the anti-gay movement increase their power in America and learn how to…

10 years ago

NSA Taking a Lot of Heat, So Deserved, But There’s a Lot More to the Story

A lot has been written and broadcast about the National Security Agencies' surveillance of allies. In fact, the "allies" knew…

10 years ago

Republicans Can’t Get Over Not Being Able to Thump Syria

The U.S.-Russian pact on Syria is, to former UN Ambassador John Bolton on Saturday, is "death by a thousand cuts."

11 years ago

McCain Says He Will Write Op-ed for Pravda – Pravda Says, Say What?

The Communist Party responded by calling McCain a russophobe and a rapacious hawk and Pravda said "OK" as long as…

11 years ago

Remember 9/11 and Never Forget What George W. Bush’s Incompetence Did to America

As the nation remembers the American lives lost at the hands of a terrorist gang, they should take stock of…

11 years ago

Hearings on Syria Offer Questions, Answers, and more Questions

The hearings on Syria did not answer every reasonable question about a possible U.S. punitive strike, but they exposed some…

11 years ago

Obama’s Decision to Get Congressional Approval Gives Sanity a Chance

War should be a matter for sober reflection, not knee-jerk reactions, and the president should be praised for opening the…

11 years ago

Where Syria is Concerned Let’s not Become a Global George Zimmerman

It is not hard to know what to think about the U.S. attacking Syria. That's wrong. And it's wrong for…

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Highlights the Peculiar Republican Obsession with Russia

Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is "without question our number one geopolitical foe"? Thanks in part to Edward…

11 years ago

One fiery speech and the Syrian threat is taken to a whole new level

Reporting on the recent Assad defiant speech and a recent story on Russia's role in the Syrian civil war. Syria…

11 years ago

Right Wing ‘Patriots’ Reserve the Right of Free Speech Just for Themselves

One of the hallmarks of so-called hard-right 'patriots' is their immutable adherence to the Constitution and all of its tenets,…

11 years ago

The civil war in Syria may be coming to a head as negotiations urged

The Syrian civil war drags on. Russia is sending ships and marines to Syria and both the U.S. and Russia…

11 years ago

What do Kim Kardashian, Milkshakes and the Middle East have in common?

Kim Kardashian is heading for the mid-east to open 2 new Milk Bars. She'll also learn move about the region…

11 years ago

Hot Patooie, Bless My Soul! It’s Meatloaf for Mitt Romney!

An obviously embarassed Mitt Romney and a drunk Meatloaf treanded on Twitter last night #MITTLOAF

12 years ago

In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama

Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not…

12 years ago

Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace

In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of…

12 years ago

Paul Ryan Pours Gas on Middle East Unrest at the Values Voter Summit

Ryan poured gasoline on the fire today and then, like a little boy dropping the pyro's match and running, disingenuously…

12 years ago

Mitt Romney’s Reckless Russia Comment Endangers US National Security

Putin claims that Romney's comments about Russia being our 'number one geopolitical foe' justify Russia's opposition to the US's European…

12 years ago

Billions of Dollars Rocketed Out Of the U.S. Yearly and It Has Nothing To Do With Romney

Legal and illegal residents of the U.S. send billions of dollars to their home countries every year. Dollars that benefit…

12 years ago

A Global May for a World Ripped off by Banksters

In what is being dubbed, hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters in more than 30 countries have retaken public space…

12 years ago

Trapped in the 80s, A Delusional Mitt Romney Thinks He’s Ronald Reagan

Romney may fool Americans with his alleged foreign policy acumen and fantasies of cowboy diplomacy, but Russian President Dmitry Medvedev…

12 years ago

How the Republican War Machine Has Lied to America About Iran

The imminent threat from Iran that Republicans like to fear monger about has existed since Ronald Reagan, and the surest…

12 years ago

A Russian Role Model for America’s Politicians

Republicans go through life trying to find excuses to avoid the responsibility of shared humanity and citizenship. Ms. Sobchak, like…

12 years ago

Mitt Romney’s Errand Boy, Ron Paul Calls Rick Santorum a ‘Liberal’

Ron Paul, Mitt Romney's errand boy, who is in charge of making Rick Santorum look bad to his conservative base…

12 years ago

START Treaty Overcomes Two Republican Amendments

Republicans have tried every possible delaying tactic: an amendment by John McCain, failed Saturday on a 59-37 vote; on Sunday,…

13 years ago

America Tell Republicans To Stop Holding National Security Hostage

Mitch McConnell and his Republican brethren are holding legislation hostage until the Democrats give them tax cuts for the rich.…

13 years ago

Foreign Press Says What America’s Won’t: Sarah Palin is a Traitor

Sarah Palin has made it to the big time; she's now being called out for her unpatriotic behavior by international…

13 years ago

Texas Governor Rick Perry Dreams of a Second Mexican War

Rick Perry is talking about a Second Mexican War à la Zachary Taylor and the Halls of Montezuma. Maybe he…

13 years ago

Republicans Stall the START Treaty And Dream of More Deficit Spending

Republicans claim we need an anti-missile defense system [cue to them rubbing their hands greedily together in anticipation]. But isn’t…

13 years ago