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
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent h... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “You can! You must. When those few are the best. Deny the best its right to the top – and you have no best left. What are your masses but mud to be g... Read more
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