Constitution

From now on, it will be possible to Impeach any minority-party president whether Republican or Democrat. There goes one more of those precious checks and balances that are so essential to a free society, because the common man losses either way.

As it stands today, for the masses the great ideological arguments of ourtimes are not fought with books and pamphlets but with memes. Some even contribute Trump’s victory in 2016 to his superior memes, and so on occasion it is important to breakdown and analyze this new class of weapon for 21st century information warfare especially when the memes themselves package flawed/false ideas like in the meme featured below.

President Trump has got the Democrats right where he always wanted them to be: cornered. While the Democrats are trying to cry foul over this, it does appear that they know they are caught and they cannot get out of their position without either a humiliation or an utter defeat.

Matt AGORIST

Craig Murray offers a guide to a judge’s conclusion that claims made as the basis of Russiagate are insufficient to even warrant a hearing.  By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and…Read more →

Robert Parry, founder of this site, exposed in this Jan. 2013 article the dangerous & false idea that the Constitution Framers wrote the 2nd Amendment so an armed population could fight the government the Framers had just created. By Robert…Read more →

The gun lobby has hijacked the Second Amendment, which was intended for citizen militias to provide domestic “security” without a standing army. The amendment is a dangerous relic, never clearer than  after El Paso and Dayton, writes Joe Lauria. By…Read more →

Mass shootings by white supremacists should not be exploited to further militarize the police and lose more civil liberties, says Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens…Read more →

The president’s new asylum rule extends his systematic assault on migrants and undermines well-established law, says Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has made 600 unilateral changes in immigration policy, more than any president in recent memory. Pursuant…Read more →

The High Court decided to do nothing about a practice that, in the words of dissenting Justice Elena Kagan, “beats democracy,” writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout The Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility to strike down partisan gerrymandering. This…Read more →