A pair of F-35B Lightning II aircraft are seen on board a U.S. warship in Manila, Philippines on September 27, 2022. (Photo: Jam Sta Rosa/AFP via Getty Images) A progressive Pentagon would recognize the deep truth of three maxims: that wars not make one great, that fear is the only… Continue reading
BAY AREA//SAN FRANCISCO J.K. Dineen Sep. 24, 2023 Updated: Sep. 25, 2023 9:52 a.m. (SFChronicle.com) A new carbon-neutral Bay Area community is in motion, built from scratch with more than 10,000 residents, 20,000 well-paying jobs, hundreds of acres of open space and a solar farm big enough to provide 70% of… Continue reading
Then-Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the parking lot outside the United Auto Workers Region 1 offices in Warren, Michigan on September 9, 2020. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “This is unprecedented: a sitting president showing up on the picket lines with workers,” said… Continue reading
BECOMEA MEMBER Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speak outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2023. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the… Continue reading
Sam Whiting Sep. 20, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) In his weekly homily, Father Louie Vitale could not contain himself when he looked out upon his flock of the poor and distraught at St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin. He’d smile and raise his hands and say, “It is just about love,… Continue reading
PDAMERICA Started streaming 53 minutes ago This week’s Town Hall will focus on Nuclear Matters. First we will hear about the escalated threat of nuclear Armageddon and a week of action to oppose this madness. Then we will have an update on efforts to shut down Nuclear Power plants across… Continue reading
MSNBC viewers are told that Biden is the greatest president since FDR. Why don’t the American public agree? By JEFF COHEN PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 17, 2023 6:00AM (EDT) (Salon.com) US President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the lowering of drug pricing in the East Room of the White House on… Continue reading
Thousands of activists, Indigenous groups, students and others take to the streets of New York for the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 17, 2023, in New York City, days before the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) We can still limit the rise in global… Continue reading
22 SEPTEMBER 2023/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge… Continue reading
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories Mike Rothschild With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for the conspiracy theories of the last two centuries, and how those theories are still very much… Continue reading
