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Harrop: Anti-imperialists ignore Russia using Africans as cannon fodder

Vladimir Putin doesn't have enough Russians to maintain the full fury of his barbaric assault on Ukraine, so he is sending African workers and students to the frontlines, threatening the visas of those who won't go. One must ask why the anti-Israel left, so sensitive to racist practices less ...

Stiehm: The last good Republican

Finding the last good Republican president was not hard in light of the moving 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on the beaches and by the cliffs of Normandy, France. In military annals, the Allies storming Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, went down as the most extraordinary land, ...

Zito: Is Pittsburgh still stronger than hate?

PITTSBURGH — For the first couple of years after the Tree of Life synagogue massacre that claimed the lives of 11 members of the Jewish community, Joe Mistick could not bring himself to drive past the synagogue despite its close proximity to his Squirrel Hill home. "For years, I would do ...

Robbins: One side’s nuts show the other side’s nuts how it’s done

The Proud Boys are synonymous with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, and they've earned the infamy. The group played a lead role in organizing the breaching of Capitol Police lines, smashing windows, vandalizing the Capitol's interior and destroying property. It specializes in street ...

Erickson: Discredited and clueless

This week, an important revelation happened in Hunter Biden's criminal trial. After 51 supposed intelligence experts declared his laptop and the information thereon to be a Russian disinformation campaign, it turns out the laptop and its contents are real. In 2020, media outlets ganged up on ...

Barone: Using a ‘sham case’ to undermine democracy

"A sham case, and everyone knows it." So writes the iconoclastic Matt Taibbi, once counted as a left-wing writer, and he's not the only one from outside MAGA precincts who has been appalled by the Manhattan district attorney's case that produced a guilty verdict against former President Donald ...