Commander in Chief of Grift & Extortion
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. – Robert F. Kenn...
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...
High-speed internet response, millions of Google responses to our searches, a growing number of colorful Apps on our phones and an amazing computer memory capacity may support buying... Read more
The prosecution took a liking to its own roman. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamasov Published on http://truth-out.org We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.... Read more
“People believe what they want to believe because the guy who made this was so good that it’s real to everybody. Now who’s the master, the painter or the forger?”... Read more
Each society determines which thoughts and feelings shall be permitted to arrive at the level of awareness and which have to remain unconscious. Just as there is a social character, there is... Read more
“One of the most remarkable things about us is also one of the easiest to overlook: each time we collide with the real, we deepen our understanding of the world and become more fully a part... Read more
For preventing the poor, wage workers, the un-gentrified and Mother Nature from being a burden on the Alpha class of the country and for making them beneficial to the publick. “I have... Read more
NY Times – Politics

President Trump has said since his first term that he wants to acquire Greenland, and he asked aides for an updated plan on Monday. European leaders rejected the president’s assertions. [...]

The ruling was the most robust effort to date to press the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, on why she has continued to serve as the U.S. attorney, despite an order throwing out her appointment. [...]

A new web page on the official White House site blames the Capitol Police and Democrats for the pro-Trump mob riot, absolving the president of responsibility and calling participants “innocent.” [...]

The California Republican’s sudden passing, on the same day that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation took effect, made the party’s House math even trickier. [...]

On Capitol Hill, Democrats spent the fifth anniversary of the riot forcefully rebutting the president’s attempts to rewrite the history of the attack, as he stepped up his false claims. [...]

The secretary of state helped steer President Trump to attacking Venezuela and seizing Nicolás Maduro, and now aims to force the country to give U.S. companies access to its oil. [...]





