RT-America, May 30, 2020 The massive scale of the protests sparked by the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis bares the roots of American discrimination – economic woe and ‘legal’ ruling-class looting, multiplied amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The killing of 46-year-old black man George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis has [...]
Counterpunch, May 27, 2020 I had long heard rumors from academicians about how “online teaching is a nightmare,” “online teaching ruined my life,” “online teaching sucked the brains out of my head,” “online teaching is a new and insidious form of labor degradation,” and the like. I foolishly tended to write these complaints off as [...]
Counterpunch, May 22, 2020 History, literature, film, and scripture are loaded with stories and examples of redemption. Buddhism gives us the story of Aṅgulimāla, a pathological mass-murderer who became a follower of the Buddha and went on to be enshrined as a “patron saint” of childbirth in South and Southeast Asia. Rick Blaine, the character [...]
Counterpunch, May 15, 2020 “This coalition of the business elite, right-wing Christian evangelicals, and white nationalists and other white supremacists is very dangerous. Fascism is ultimately a death cult.” – Jason Stanley , May 11, 2020 From the Annals of “The Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History” Despite timely alerts given by senior public health [...]
Counterpunch, May 11, 2020 I would like to nominate the “Public” Broadcasting System’s (“P”BS) “NewsHour” and its economics reporter Paul Solomon for the 2020 Piss Down Our Backs and Tell Us Its Raining Prize in broadcast journalism. Last Thursday, “P”BS “NewsHour” viewers got to see the show’s longtime economics correspondent (Paul Solomon) give a chilling account of how newly [...]
RT-America, May 11, 2020 Corporate Joe Do the Democratic Party’s leadership and its many allied mainstream media outlets have no shame? They are determined to run Joe Biden, a presidential candidate who embodies many of the evils for which they condemn Donald Trump. Democrats rightly charge the reputed billionaire Donald Trump with serving the wealthy [...]
Counterpunch, May 8, 2020 Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total reckless insanity in [...]
“My God, they’re killing us”: On May 4, 1970, heavily armed National Guard soldiers used live ammunition to slaughter unarmed students on an American university campus who were protesting against the US invasion of Cambodia. Just after noon that day, 28 National Guard troops fired 67 rounds from their M-1 rifles into a crowd of [...]
Counterpunch, April 29, 2020 As the global coronavirus public health and economic crisis of 2020 approaches the international workers’ day May 1st, let us consider 23 ways in which it is a crisis of and by capital and its class rule profits system: +1. The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back. United States capitalism was [...]
Counterpunch, April 24, 2020 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each [...]