Since I started Virally Suppressed over three and a half years, I have done my utmost to provide my readers with investigative journalism and sociopolitical commentary that is engaging, enlightening and empathic. I have probably failed in this endeavor about… Read More ›
Up until today, the Republican and Democratic presidential primary fields were a study in contrasts. On the right, you had a raucous melange of hyper-conservative ideologues, religious extremists and political would-be-kings vociferously bickering on national TV, all of whom seemed… Read More ›
Ike warned us. He spelled it out for us in no uncertain terms at the close of his presidency and we should have listened. When the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General of the Army and Commander in Chief… Read More ›
Tuesday night’s showdown of prospective Democratic nominees for president provided all of the clarity and revelation that one could reasonably expect from an inaugural debate taking place 4 months prior to the opening of primary season. As she was expected… Read More ›
Time has a way of softening terminology, especially with regards to things we’d rather not think about and don’t entirely understand. During World War I, a British physician named Charles Samuel Myers wrote an article in The Lancet, using the… Read More ›
A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled, “The… Read More ›
Head over to Bernie Sanders’s campaign website and you will find the unbridled economic populism of the first self-proclaimed socialist this side of Eugene V. Debs to have a legitimate shot at making waves in a presidential election. In his, “On… Read More ›
Boys and girls, we have entered very strange air as of late. The mid-term elections are over. The dumpster fire that was the 113th Congress is pretty much finished. And, as 2014 fades into 2015, the first presidential rumblings for… Read More ›
“[He] is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn’t come in contact with death; that’s why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard… Read More ›
During his two terms as a Republican Senator from the state of Nebraska, Chuck Hagel voted for The Patriot Act, supported the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq, and okayed both sets of Bush Tax Cuts. Hagel endorsed the military’s Don’t… Read More ›
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