Author: Scott Scheffer

Portland, Ore., has become a battleground between anti-racist and social justice protesters on one side and federal forces dispatched by the White House and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the other.  The startling, rare […]

On July 2, a huge explosion did extensive damage to Iran’s most important nuclear fuel enrichment facility at Natanz. The investigation by Iranian officials is ongoing, but there is little doubt that this was the […]

The massive demonstrations over the racist police murder of George Floyd have some of the corporate political establishment scrambling to find footing on a changed political landscape. Even as the Trump administration doubles down with […]

At a press conference in January 2019, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton made sure a notepad that had the words “5,000 U.S. troops to Colombia” scrawled on it was visible for photographers. Pretending […]

As the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. approaches 120,000, the Trump administration is relying heavily on anti-China propaganda — including wild accusations, right-wing conspiracy theories and racist anti-Asian rhetoric that greenlit physical attacks and […]

On June 14, the LGBTQ2S community in Los Angeles chanted and shouted their anger over police racism and violence in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in a huge march.  Thousands of handmade signs […]

There have now been over 100,000 lives lost in the U.S. from COVID-19, and nearly half the country is still experiencing uncontrolled outbreaks.  Incarcerated populations, nursing home residents, asylum seekers trapped at the border and […]