Margaret Kimberley on Russiagate, the scam that will not die; Sara Flounders: Facts be damnned, US war party won't accept defeat in Syria; NYPD "gang raids" a flimsy cover for mass arrests.

Mass arrests targeting hundreds of young Black and brown New Yorkers are based on false premises and hyped-up evidence, said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project (

“The real problem” the US confronts in Syria, said Sara Flounders, of the International Action Center, is that “every one of the forces that they have for eight years armed, equipp

Precisely because the claim of Wikileaks-Russian-Trump “collusion” remains unproven, the Democrats and the corporate media “have to find new ways of whipping up this story,” said BAR editor and sen

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