Trapped in A U.S. Sanctioned Afghan Love Prison So, this is not about a metaphoric prison. This is about an actual prison. The point here is that when we think about whether what we did in Afghanistan, and how we withdrew, is right or proper has nothing to with, well, Afghanistan. Not only was the outcome never in…

Games of Hope We Play in the Middle of Trump’s Night The title is a line from a song by the Alan Parsons Project, Games People Play. It was haunting to me as a child, forecasting a future of middle age when the children are grown and gone, and “nobody…

Polite White Protest Group Seeks Solace and Remorse for Upsetting Democracy Privileged Tourist-Protesters Snap Selfies During Historic Vote This just in: Today angry whites storm the barricades at the Capitol Building. Despite a smattering of armed police forces protecting it, they are reported to make it “violently” through four barriers…

Sealing the Victory of Trump’s Gains — “Some of those that burn crosses are the same that hold office” — Rage Against the Machine, Zack de la Rocha when playing live As VP Mike Pence blessed 11 GOP senators’ defection on January 2, 2021 to what appears to be the…

Declaring Actual War On Actual African Blacks It’s easier to back pedal than to forward pedal. One a day of national mourning after the Buffalo massacre in my hometown, little reflection was given by Biden before declaring war on blacks. No, I mean literal war on blacks. First, he gave…

Replacement Theory’s Southern Manifesto Ghost Haunts Buffalo Massacre The single biggest problem for black America is white amnesia. OK, that’s a clear exaggeration. On the individual daily life, black Americans are caught up in their personal struggles. In my hometown, Buffalo NY, they were doing exactly that when a white…

A Little Background for Muslim Immigrants While I’m glad to see and hear from some Muslim commentators like Asma on CNN and other networks talk about the Big Lie and how it is playing out in the Georgia election and others, I really wish they would read some U.S. …

Extremist Wealth Unbound But anybody halfway intelligent and doesn’t want to appeal to the lowest common denominator in the media should put a little more effort into speaking and writing than Elon Musk. The media should be about more than just manipulating people into halves, or extremist halves, 10% percent…

An Enraged Equal Number on Both Sides “Have you ever had One of those conversations where half the people in the room have a very strongly held opinion and the other half felt just as strongly, but in the opposite direction.” Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam No. No no no. I…