By C J Waldron Fromer CNN reporter Don Lemon was arrested for reporting on a protest that took place in a church in Minneapolis. At least that’s how the charges were presented. The fact of the matter is, Lemon, who is gay and Black, was arrested because he dared to defy the authority of white […]
America’s Greatest Lie About Ourselves by Mark M. Bello Americans like to tell ourselves a comforting story about immigration. We are a nation of immigrants, we say—open-hearted, generous, grateful for those who came seeking freedom. They built this country. But history tells a harder truth: America has repeatedly shut its doors on desperate people—and later […]
Does “Never Again” Mean Anything in America? by Mark M. Bello Proof That America Refused to Believe Its Own Eyes. Joe Biden is president. America settles down. The chaos fades into background noise; the lies blur together. Trump is prosecuted—he paints himself as the victim and TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) strikes again. The economy becomes […]
PART ONE: THE LIES WE SAW WITH OUR OWN EYES—How Trump Trained us to Stop Believing Reality by Mark M. Bello Let’s dispense with polite fiction: Donald Trump did not merely “spin,” exaggerate, or posture during his two presidential administrations. He lied — repeatedly, shamelessly, and about the most consequential matters a president can touch. […]
By Mark M. Bello I previously called out Fox News for its distorted reporting on the killing of Alex Pretti. Now, I’m speaking directly to voters who chose Donald Trump for president in the last election. Some of you admire Trump, loathe Democrats, and actively support a radical right-wing agenda—Project-2025–type governance, centralized executive power, loyalty […]
ICE Agent Shoots & Kills a Legally Armed United States Citizen. by Mark M. Bello On January 24, 2026, a 37-year-old American man — identified by his family as ICU nurse Alex Pretti — was shot and killed by federal Border Patrol/ICE agents on a Minneapolis street. This wasn’t some chaotic shoot-out with a criminal. […]
A Right-Wing Plan Without Right-Wing Guardrails by Mark M. Bello There is a dangerous misconception taking hold in American political discourse: that Donald Trump’s second term is merely a louder, more chaotic rerun of his first. It isn’t. It is far worse. Remember Project 2025? This was a plan, designed by the far right to […]
Greed, Not Peace: Trump’s Board of Extortion by Bob Gatty Donald Trump, who’s threatening to attack Greenland because Norway hasn’t given him the Nobel Peace Prize, is in hot water with European leaders who are resisting his threat to take over that tiny country that’s home to less than 60,000 people and a bunch of […]
Trump Could Learn from This King By Mark M. Bello Jan. 19, 2026 Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr.—not as a saint carved in marble, but as a living model of leadership grounded in human dignity. And this matters because dignity is precisely what our current political moment lacks. King believed power without moral […]
Why Elections Are Vital to the Concept of Justice For All by Mark M. Bello Familiar with the name Mahmoud Khalil? He’s the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian protester who was jailed for months by the Trump administration. Obviously, as a strong supporter of Israel, I do not support his views on the Israel-Hamas conflict, […]
