When an Electorate Becomes an Audience
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org In his rambling address to 800 Flag officers of the U.S. military, Pr...
The Angry Dualism of U.S. Politics
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org It was necessary to begin thinking that there was no centre, that the...
Any Questions?
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any...
The Zeitgeist of Mad Logic
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logi...
The Politics of the Street-Corner Wiseass
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Assessing the damage President Donald J. Trump’s street corner smart...
Reading the Lunacy Level
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look l...
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “It already feels as though we are living in an alternative science-fiction universe where no one agrees on what is true. Just think how much... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video…” Henry J. Farrell and Rick Perstein, “Our Hack... Read more
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! –... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ What we find strange has much to do with how we are positioned and the viewing perspective we have from that position. For example, women offended b... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ We live in a “worlding” (according to Heidegger how we experience a world as familiar) of our own accomplishments, defeats, intentions and assumpti... Read more
NY Times – Politics

The justices used the doctrine, a judicially created method of reading statutes, to thwart several major Biden programs. [...]

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee, has a commanding lead in polls. Her Republican rival, Winsome Earle-Sears, has focused on a texting scandal involving the Democrat running for attorney general. [...]

In an interview, the Pennsylvania governor offered his most detailed accounting yet of the April attack — and how he’s grappling with its aftermath. [...]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is focusing on what the country can control, including looking for economic partnerships abroad, especially in Asia. [...]

A veteran journalist, he covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and provided the pool report on the ceremony aboard Air Force One. [...]

Whether because of his increasingly mercurial approach or despite it, President Trump has won some foreign policy victories in his second term. The question now is whether he can build on his record. [...]





