The jingoistic ruling class of the United States delights in few things more than the hypocritical vilification and berating of their smallest and weakest adversaries. Since the revolution that overthrew the oppressive US-backed military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Cuba has been a favorite target. The United States’ leadership was so incensed by the overthrow of the murderous Batista government, and with him their ability to subjugate and extract wealth from the small island nation, that they worked for decades trying to undo the revolution. They’ve imposed harsh sanctions, enforced embargos, threatened military strikes, funded failed paramilitary coups, attempted invasions and…

I remember giving a shit about the Olympics as a kid. Not that I watched every event, but when the Olympics season rolled around it felt like an event and I’d usually watch a decent portion of it. This was helped by the fact that I was a degenerate TV addict as a child, and would watch almost anything, but also the Olympics were just cooler back then. …

In his latest act of calculated evil, it has been announced that Jeff Bezos will be taking Wally Funk with him on his brief rich prick pleasure cruise into space.

Everyone should know who Wally Funk is, but for the very few that don’t:

Wally Funk was part of the Mercury 13 project, one of thirteen women who were tested and

trained to be Nasa’s first astronauts. Despite performing better and proving they were better suited for space travel than the men of the inferior Mercury 7 project, the women of Mercury 13 were denied the opportunity. The project was…

It is often said, often by callous crackers, that people who are killed by police were killed because of their own bad behavior. Not that the murdered human being, or “suspect,” was necessarily doing anything wrong, something to justify being detained let alone killed, but that they should have acted differently when the police were trying to detain or arrest them.

They shouldn’t have resisted arrest, They should have cooperated, or They shouldn’t have run away.

Cops will charge almost anything as “resisting arrest,” and plenty of cooperative people have been murdered by cops. George Floyd and Philando Castile were…

Have you ever noticed how sexy, gross, beautiful, or vulgar mouths can be?

From birth we were desensitized to the flagrant displays of other people’s mouths. Many of us never gave it a second thought as people spoke and ate, breathed or sang, pursed and licked their lips, right in front of us. We shared their air and looked their mouths dead on.

Then the Covid pandemic hit and everyone who wasn’t a jackoff went masked in public spaces. Masks, in non-jackoff spaces, became the norm. For more than a year our minds were retrained, some of us compensated for…

The Democratic brand is built on a reputation of being less horrible than Republicans. It’s not a strong selling point, being slightly better than the opposition, and in some respects the Democrats aren’t actually better but simply more polite. Apart from their relatively small contingent of progressives, the Democratic party has often been as reliable as the Republicans when it comes to favoring big business, punishing the poor, funding the police state at home and military imperialism abroad. On matters of major polarization, like immigration policy during the Trump regime, there has not been much change so far under Biden’s…

The “two state solution,” the idea of founding two independent, sovereign states of Israel and Palestine is a farce promoted by the delusional who don’t acknowledge its improbability and the cynical who count on its impossibility. Neither the Israeli government nor the Palestinian people can be satisfied by what the other wants when the two state solution is discussed. The Palestinians would insist on being able to return to their homes and the land they were forced off of, and the removal of the Israeli military from that land, the end of occupation, and the Israeli government would insist that…

Israeli politicians and the nation’s most zealous defenders tolerate no criticism of the nation’s actions and deride any criticism as antisemitic. Israel’s political class have so branded the nation as the home of the Jewish people, as the center of cultural and spiritual identity for Jewish people worldwide that one might think they can’t say anything critical about the actions and rhetoric of the Israeli government without it being treated as being critical, or hateful, of the Israeli people or of the Jewish diaspora. …