In the latest continuation of western media’s shameless promotion of a known war criminal, the Washington Post sat down with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) last Thursday for a 75-minute discussion (even the Post itself previously published an acknowledgment of his crimes).

This past week could go down as the worst for the US role in the world since the misbegotten 2003 invasion of Iraq, whose tragic consequences still bedevil us.

Students and supporters took to the streets in up to 800 separate ‘March For Our Lives’ rallies across the US, demanding stricter gun control

15 years after the invasion of Iraq, what are the costs?

Trump’s nominee for CIA director was a great supporter of getting rid of the evidence of torture, although it seems she has nothing to worry about now

“We make the best equipment in the world, there’s nobody even close, and Saudi Arabia’s buying a lot of this equipment,” the president said.

“Have we learned nothing?”

“The U.S. must stop literally fueling the deliberate killing and starvation of countless civilians in Yemen, and support a peaceful solution to end this crisis.”

Child sex-trafficking is an epidemic today, and while most people would find this crime to be right up there with homicide, the culture of permissiveness and lack of moral leadership tacitly condones the sexual abuse of children, while the media remains largely silent.

Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans) are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced.