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Brian Williams calls air strikes “beautiful.” A depraved corporate media behaves true to form.

As Mark Sumner writes at Daily Kos: “Donald Trump talking about ‘beautiful babies’ in Syria is so sickeningly hypocritical that it demands a new word. These are the same people that Trump condemned over, and over, and over. Some of … Continue reading →

who wouldn’t accept Syrian refugees. Obscene.

Representative Lieu: “March to war in #Syria without a strategy is both dangerous and ILLEGAL. #Trump cannot go to war against #Assad w/o congressional approval” Glenn Greenwald: “Leaders all over the world, of every type of government, know that the … Continue reading →

Phyllis Bennis at Common Dreams reminds us that: “this is a president, a cabinet, a White House with no military or diplomatic experience, with no understanding of the complications of the roiling Middle East conflicts or the consequences of war, … Continue reading →

Didn’t waste a moment before going to Twitter and insisting on military escalation after defending her support for a No-fly Zone, which is always a prelude to full-scale war.

and that ain’t Trump. Charles Glass, former ABC News chief Middle East correspondent and author of Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe: “The death and suffering caused by poison gas in Syria emphasizes the urgency — not to … Continue reading →

Goes off half-cocked against Syria on the day the GOP wrecks the Senate and steals the Supreme Court. More escalation, more deaths, more blowback, more terrorism, more perpetual war, and more authoritarianism in the United States.

Robert Edmund Jones was a great set designer and dramatic theorist who designed for the opera as well as Broadway. His 1941 The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre has many lines worth quoting.  Jones … Continue reading →

All will not be comity in the Senate tomorrow. In The Nation, Ari Berman reports on accelerating hostilities now inevitable since “The GOP Has Declared War on Democracy.”