Limits to warrant-less surveillance only apply when it's one of their own being targeted. By Marcy Wheeler.

How can the rhetoric about Trump from Democratic leaders be reconciled with their actions to protect his unchecked power to spy on Americans? By Glenn Greenwald.

I think it’s very fitting that the ever-tightening repetitive loops of America’s increasingly schizophrenic partisan warfare have finally hit peak shrillness and skyrocketed into a white noise singularity on Groundhog Day. By Caitlin Johnstone.

How an ACLU founder became an apologist for Soviet tyranny. By Matthew Harwood.

This brings us back to the question posed whenever a production of The Merchant of Venice is mounted: is this an antisemitic play, or a play about antisemitism? Indeed, if we need Shylock’s ‘Hath not a Jew’ speech to remind us that Jews are, in fact, human too, then we are dealing with a much larger cultural problem that productions of The Merchant of Venice play into. By Gabriella Edelstein.

‘I cannot return to Afghanistan because certain death is waiting for me and I want to live. For myself and my beautiful family.’ By Lachlan Markay.

Polemicists, conspiracists, and outright fabulists are feeding an alternative media landscape—where the implausibility of a claim is no bar to its acceptance. By McKay Coppins.

The West’s policies in the Middle East are coming home. Remember the “Vietnamese” heroin that showed up in the body bags at home? Well there’s a lot of body bags at home right now… By Aidan O’Brien.

Trump’s anti-war promises were just glib campaign rhetoric. By Philip Giraldi.

Cory Booker was once a drug industry ally. Now he’s refusing money from what he calls “folks who are profiting off the backs of the sick.” By Zaid Jilani.

If there’s anything more hypocritical than the lying warmongers at the New York Times running a full-page list of the lies Trump has told since taking office, it’s the foam-brained establishment Democrats who still read that awful propaganda rag. By Caitlin Johnstone.

Scientists, skeptics, crabbers and pastors try to find common ground, offering a glimmer of hope for a divided country. By Scott Waldman.

The man who once wrote a book highly critical of policymakers who escalated an unwinnable war in Vietnam is urging escalation in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan, sources confirmed today. [Self-satire]

Advocates accuse the Cayman Turtle Centre of mistreating its sea turtles and stoking demand for the meat of an endangered species, claims it denies. By Rachael Bale.

Understanding the Vacuity. By Fred Reed.

So after inventing “fake news”, America’s crazed President on Sunday gave the world’s Muslims a fake speech. By Robert Fisk.

President Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia tomorrow, mere hours after US bombers attacked pro-Assad militiamen whom the US military say were threatening a base in southern Syria where US and British Special Forces are training rebel fighters. By Patrick Cockburn. (May 19, 2017)

Representative Robert Fisher resigned just after a House committee voted not to punish him for his misogynistic online comments. By Claire Landsbaum.

Markos Moulitsas was once the face of American progressivism. That shouldn’t happen again. By Dan O’Sullivan.

Brazil’s government brushed off criticism Wednesday that it is failing to protect vulnerable indigenous tribes in the wake of a bloody attack that left 13 people wounded.