Last week, President Joe Biden declared that “too much of what’s happening … today is not normal.” His rhetoric was aimed at “MAGA Republicans.” While the January 6th insurrection was criminal and the former president’s erratic and dishonest behavior has certainly been highly inappropriate and unusual, can the sitting president really claim to stand for…
Author: Paul F.J. Aranas
President Biden, Abortion, and Catholicism
President Joe Biden professes to be a Roman Catholic, and yet he just signed an executive order attempting to protect abortion rights. While the executive order has little power in the face of the Supreme Court rolling back Roe v Wade, it is yet another symbol of the absence of integrity in politics. A voter…
Hypocrisy and Mendacity
The American and European establishment including media, politicians, and corporate elite appear to value white life over Latinos, Asians, Arabs, Black and Indigenous peoples. In addition, many scholars are too intimidated to stand up for anything that goes against the prevailing governmental mantra, fearing they will lose their status or even their jobs. This Ukraine…
War in Ukraine: Resources for Intellectual Self-Defense
Information the Western media is suppressing The U.S. and the E.U. instigated & backed a coup in Ukraine in 2014, then propped up successive puppet regimes, fueled an 8-year war against Russian speakers in the Donbass, & supported neo-Nazi Ukrainian battalions. Russia didn’t start this war, the West did. Instead of instigating and backing a…