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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...

The Game is On
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “We’re flooded in shit, and we’re still searching for a way to...

Calling on Don Corleone
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org How did President Trump get Big Pharma to “equalize” their prices wit...

How Democrats Win Elections
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze back...

Good Guys/Bad Guys
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org There is one common reason for the collapse of democracy: capitalist...






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
Published on http://www.truth-out.org The closer your political platform gets to allowing everyone to do as they want and at the same time pointing out and berating what’s interfering... Read more
The New Treasure Island for Investors “This government’s [England] whole strategy for higher education is, in the cliché it so loves to use, to create a level playing field that... Read more
“The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from... Read more
Published on http://bad.eserver.org/ The question of what remains of JFK’s legacy now, fifty years after his death, or, the question of whether we are as divided now as to what JFK... Read more
Published on http://bad.eserver.org/ “I set out to grasp the mechanisms of the effective exercise of power; and I do this because those who are inserted in these relations of power, wh... Read more
NY Times – Politics

After years pressing to end U.S. aid to Ukraine, many Republicans have abandoned that position now that President Trump is supporting the country against Russian aggression. [...]

Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, told Texas Democrats on a call on Tuesday that the moment required everyone to take extraordinary actions. [...]

Democrats urged the Republican majority to call Justice Department officials, including the attorney general and F.B.I. leaders, to Capitol Hill to discuss how they handled the Jeffrey Epstein case. [...]

Michael Waltz, the former national security adviser, doubled down on the Trump administration’s defense of a Signal group chat where senior officials discussed war plans. [...]

Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president’s stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition. [...]

Staff members who were first notified of terminations in April were finally let go late Monday. [...]