Published on http://www.counterpunch.org In his rambling address to 800 Flag officers of the U.S. military, President Trump didn’t get his MAGA boost from his audience. The 800 weren’t an au... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org It was necessary to begin thinking that there was no centre, that the centre could not be thought in the form of a present-being, that centre had no... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given. – Susanne K. Langer The President has... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the sa... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Assessing the damage President Donald J. Trump’s street corner smart ass politics has done begins first with defining the domain. National and Intern... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot. But don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” – Marx Brothe... Read more
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts. [...]
The administration says the ruling, stemming from the seizure of an old mare, forbids judges from second-guessing his use of the National Guard. [...]
President Trump said last week he planned to speak with Russia’s leader in “two weeks or so” about Ukraine. [...]
The Trump administration is closing in on a deal with the University of Virginia, four months after government pressure forced the school’s previous president to resign. [...]
Emboldened by the lapse in government funding and employee furloughs, some visitors are brazenly betting that they won’t get caught for breaking the law. [...]
By paying troops and law enforcement officials, the president stretched the limits of his spending powers, posing a fresh test to Congress. [...]
