Amid rising tensions, NATO chief pitches confrontation with Russia to US Congress

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered the first-ever address by a leader of the US-led imperialist alliance to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday, promoting a military buildup against Russia under conditions in which ever greater fissures are threatening to tear NATO itself apart.

The Tulsi2020 campaign continues to gain unique donors, closing in on the magic number. As of tonight, Tulsi has 61,029 of them, and needs only 3,971 more to get into the Democratic debates. That's only 97 new donors per day through May 14.

Tulsi's interview with Jimmy Dore is now on YouTube in two parts. Pretty decent interview (almost 150,000 views on the first one!).

In recent years our financial leaders have admitted that a) deregulation of financial markets was a mistake, b) neoliberal austerity policies do more harm than good, c)

Update at the bottom of the comment stream, and it really sucks. Fuck Moreno, fuck the UK.

From telesurenglish.net, April 2:

“Ecuador says Assange doesn’t have the right to “hack private accounts or phones” nor intervene in the foreign politics.

FTR: I began this essay early in March.

In my observation, many of us create idols. Inasmuch as perfection is the nature of idols, once we create an idol, we hear, see and speak no negative things about him or her; and some of us suspect anyone who does, even levying personal attacks at them.