The Banter Long Read: I recently sat my 7-year-old daughter Anastasia down and watched Vice's report on the events in Charlottesville. Here's why. To continue reading this MEMBERS ONLY article, please go here. You'll get unlimited access to all our member's content, and your ...read more
Fighting over the cast and characters of a sci-fi blockbuster sounds silly and childish until you look at what it says about Trump's white nationalist followers and their penchant for embracing violence as a final solution (Nazi reference very much intended and appropriate). In ...read more
By Robert Parry The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide against Mayan villagers in the 1980s has a special meaning for Americans who idolize Ronald Reagan. It means that their hero was an accessory to one of the most grievous crimes ...read more
By Robert Parry The first month of the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has elicited chilling testimony from Mayan survivors who – as children – watched their families slaughtered by a right-wing military that was supported and supplied by U.S. ...read more
"One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic," Joseph Stalin On April 6, 1994, the Rwandan genocide began. Over the course of 100 days, approximately 800,000 people were slaughtered with machetes. Paul Kagame led a Tutsi rebellion from the Congo, took control of ...read more
