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
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “We’re flooded in shit, and we’re still searching for a way to shovel it out,” – James Carville While we are angst full over whether or not we... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org How did President Trump get Big Pharma to “equalize” their prices with the EU’s? Statement One: “I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze back into you.” – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886 Anyone flying under the Demo... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org There is one common reason for the collapse of democracy: capitalist society has outlived its strength. The national and international antagonisms wh... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1816 I th... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; Around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.” – Ecclesiastes I w... Read more
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office. [...]
The United States generally allows foreign officials to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The administration’s move comes amid a new push for Palestinian statehood. [...]
Activists are pointing to the attacker’s gender identity to falsely portray all transgender people as prone to mental illness and violence. [...]
Weather Service employees help air traffic controllers keep planes away from severe weather. Fewer than half of the country’s control centers are fully staffed, a government report says. [...]
Democrats still face an uphill fight to win in Iowa and retake the majority in the closely divided Senate. [...]
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents. [...]
