Physicians for Human Rights reports on how the bully's family separation policy amounts to torture — and often included intentional cruelty to the parents and their children.

India has released some of the arbitrarily-imprisoned political leaders of Kashmir. But the former highest leaders are still in prison.

*To connect the enclaves that make up Kedumim, [illegal Israeli colonists] seized control of a central road serving Palestinians and blocked their access to it.*

*Israeli ["settlers"] torch Palestinian school in latest 'price tag' attack.*

Slavoj Zizek: *US enters brutal ideological civil war as four-party system begins to take form.*

I disagree partially. It is a mistake to talk about four parties; really there are only three. There are still some "moderate" Republicans (though they are even further from what most Americans stand for than the "moderate" Democrats) who disagree with the bullshitter, but hardly any dare to stand against the extremist Republican Party.

The US had real moral leadership during World War II and the Cold War. In some places and times its behavior was consistent with its stated principles, especially in Europe and Japan, even as in other parts of the world the US supported colonial empires or economic elites.

Meanwhile, the US contended against horrible enemies. Communist Russia and China committed massive crimes. Imagine if the bully could have anyone in the US imprisoned or shot, as a whim, and nobody dared to hint at disobedience; that's what Stalin's rule was like. In China, Mao's delusional "Great Leap Forward" caused an artificial famine that killed millions. There too, no one dared criticize. The imprisonment of a million Uighurs for brainwashing is a sample of what Mao's rule was like.

These were not merely a low standard of comparison against which US looked better than it was. They were real enemies on a global scale.

In today's United States, the good aspects have faded while the bad ones have increased. But we know that the way forward is with Sanders and his political revolution.

When our land was great before, We taxed the rich a whole lot more.

*The IDF Spokesman Announces: Continue to Shoot Palestinian Children.*