Counterpunch, 8/23/2019 Among the suggestions I would have made to the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley had I been an editor of his important book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Random House, 2018), two seem particularly relevant in the present political juncture. Inauthentic Democracy The first suggestion would have been for Stanley [...]
Truthdig, August 20, 2019 Liberals have been understandably aghast at Donald Trump’s recurrent claim that he doesn’t “have a racist bone in [his] body.” Who is the white-nationalist president trying to kid? His politics and presidency have consistently been monuments to white racial identity, animated by a promise to white voters that black and brown people [...]
Counterpunch, August 16, 2019 For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. – Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1852 One of the occupational and intellectual hazards of being a historian is that current events often seem far less new to oneself than they do to others. Recently a leftish liberal friend told me [...]
Counterpunch, August 9, 2019 Is there no limit to the lethal and authoritarian absurdity of America, land of mass gun massacres like Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, and now El Paso and Dayton among other pockmarked sites? Here is a society that claims to be the beacon to the world of [...]
The Nuke Hurricanes story is real: https://www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html?fbclid=IwAR1hxd4ENAY3Uh0LzRtsKv9lAiTKzso9rLox408mvfiA7BrrOQIwI15hO_E The Birthright Citizenship Story is Real: https://time.com/5658238/donald-trump-birthright-citizenship/ The Executive Order to Remove Muslims and Latinos from federal bench story is FAKE, made up by Paul Street The Nuke Anguila story is FAKE, made up by Paul Street but contains certain facts from real reports. The Doral 2020 G7 [...]
Counterpunch, August 6, 2019 What follows is a series of “social media” statements and exchanges (from Saturday, August 3 through the morning of Tuesday, August 6) regarding the assault-weapon mass-shootings in El Paso and Dayton. “The Correct Word: POGROM” Saturday, August 3, 2019, after news breaks of the mass-shooting in El Paso, Texas Street, 1:21 [...]
Counterpunch, August 2, 2019 I was unable to watch all the CNN Democratic presidential candidates’ debate last Tuesday night, but every time I looked in it was stuck on one of the three following themes: #1. Conservative CNN “moderators” and absurdly marginal corporate Democrat pseudo-candidates like John Hickenlooper and John Delaney attacking the mildly social-democratish [...]
Counterpunch, July 26, 2019 The People Do Not Elect U.S. Presidents United States Representative Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) lied on national television yesterday (Thursday, July 25th) morning. Now that impeachment is off the table in the wake of the final public Robert Mueller fiasco, Garcia told CNN, it’s “the people” who will remove Donald Trump from the [...]
Truthdig, July 19, 2019 The wealthy, white, establishment-Democrat Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, had no choice but to outwardly defend the House’s four leftish first-term women of color against the nation’s white nationalist president. Donald Trump had just used his Twitter account to launch a vicious nativist assault on Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [...]
Counterpunch, July 12, 2019 Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media’s role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance Two Sundays ago, in a [...]