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...
For Americans, the aughts began with the fearful Y2K and ended on Christmas Day 2009 with a terrorist attack, thankfully failed, on board a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit. Call these ‘macro... Read more
NY Times – Politics

Zohran Mamdani chose Lillian Bonsignore to be fire commissioner, weeks after the former commissioner, Robert S. Tucker, resigned, citing Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel. [...]

The Trump administration had sought to require states to account for population losses tied to deportations in order to receive emergency preparedness grants. [...]
After nearly two weeks in detention, José Gonzalez, the popular host of an upscale restaurant, returns home. [...]

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. [...]

Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes, which usually transport troops and equipment, flew to Puerto Rico at least 16 times, according to flight tracking data reviewed by The New York Times. [...]

The troops will join an existing wave of Border Patrol agents, months after Gov. Jeff Landry first suggested that the National Guard could help tamp down on crime in Louisiana. [...]





