Published on http://www.counterpunch.org About half of the U.S. is offended and repulsed by the existence of Donald J. Trump while the remaining half welcome him as a Messiah. Passions and o... Read more
In selecting the Virginia governor, Democrats turned to a centrist former congresswoman whose winning campaign last year showed how their party’s candidates can succeed in the Trump era. [...]
As tensions mount between the Trump administration and the courts, the judge called “shameless” a claim by officials that her earlier order was not binding. [...]
The change is part of the administration’s broad effort to target refugees and tighten pathways for immigrants to legally enter or remain in the United States. [...]
Jackson flatly rejected the notion that Americans had any common cause with the likes of Batista, Diem, Pinochet, the Shah, Somoza, and Marcos. He called for a freeze on nuclear [...]
On Jan. 29, Trump signed an executive order imposing tariffs on goods and services from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, arguing that aid to the island “constitutes [...]
During World War II, the shipyard workforce in Richmond, CA. numbered one hundred thousand—and 20 percent was non-white. By 1945, Richmond had the largest public housing program in the nation, [...]
In the classic Cold War film The Ugly American, Marlon Brando plays an American ambassador neck-deep in the kind of covert operations that would later get tens of thousands of Vietnamese [...]
In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia established a revolutionary principle that has anchored global order for nearly four centuries: the legal equality of sovereign states and the sanctity of their borders. It [...]