Author Archives | Mark Pontoni

But we’re the greatest country on earth…and other lies.

The United States got caught again acting like a medieval king; you know, the guy who could make the rules but didn’t have to follow them?  As the Senate finally released a report documenting our despicable adventures into torture, all sorts of apologists have lined up to either defend the use of torture or to […]

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Everything’s Fine; White People on Racism

As the events in Ferguson, Missouri have unfolded since the day Michael Brown was gunned down by a police officer, we have learned a lot about the state of race relations in our country.  But it’s not in Ferguson where we learned the most. I have purposely avoided watching any of the news coverage of […]

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