Author: Scott Scheffer

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 […]

The U.S. campaign of slander against China regarding its response to the coronavirus can’t be seen only as electoral damage control for Donald Trump, nor should it be interpreted only as friction between two economic […]

In the early morning hours of May 3, sixty trained mercenaries in speedboats left Colombia and motored toward the northern coast of Venezuela, north of Caracas.  Their plan was to inspire a counterrevolutionary mutiny among […]

The campaign of slander against China to deflect criticism of President Trump over the COVID-19 pandemic has ratcheted up in recent days.  It isn’t only a defensive move by the Trump administration itself. A leaked […]