Counterpunch, 8/29/2018 John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, August 27, 2018 I have this recurrent experience as an “iconoclastic” Left critic of what gets sold as progressive and Left. It starts with me getting a radical truth-telling rush discovering and showing how some political figure, [...]
Counterpunch, 8/24/2018 Some fall predictions: + The Chicago Cubs, having added Daniel Murphy to their roster, will go to the World Series again, to be defeated by a superior American League club, likely the Red Sox (51% probability). + The quasi-fascist U.S. President Donald J. Trump will pardon his recently convicted and former campaign manager [...]
Truthdig, 8/23/2018 CNN's liberal and anti-Trump talk show host Erin Burnett was in crisis modelast week. She was rolling her eyes, anxious for the fate of the republic. The cause of her angst? A Gallup poll showing that 57 percent of the nation’s Democrats now respond more favorably to the word “socialism” than they do to “capitalism”—this compared [...]
Counterpunch, 8/18/2018 Here’s a pop current events identification quiz for U.S.A-ers: (1) Briefly describe the dispute raging between former Black female reality television star and former White House senior staff member Omarosa Manigault-Newman (hereafter “Omarosa”) and the Donald Trump White House. (2) Briefly describe what recently happened to at least 40 children riding in a [...]
Truthdig, 8/12/2018 The United States is full of personally decent and caring, often highly intelligent people mired in political ignorance and delusion. A smart and liberally inclined family doctor I know recently expressed concern over her high-income husband’s support for the malignant narcissist and pathological liar currently occupying the White House. “I can understand him [...]
Truthdig, 8/5/2018 Four days ago, The Washington Post reported that the epic pathological liar Donald Trump made 4,229 false statements during his first 558 days as United States president. Trump spoke or tweeted falsely, on average, an astonishing 7.6 times per day during that time. We have no historical database of presidential untruth on which to rely [...]
Dear Readers and Supporters: One of the essays your backing and encouragement helped me write last year took First Prize in the category of "Political Commentary-National" at the 60th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards earlier this summer: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/truthdig-wins-10-prizes-at-the-60th-annual-southern-california-journalism-awards/ The essay that won: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/an-insubordinate-president/ I also apparently took silver (second place) in the category of Minority/Immigration Reporting for [...]
Truthdig, July 29, 2018 “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” This famous socialist slogan, adapted from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “The Communist Manifesto,” struck Noam Chomsky as a poor fit for most people in the world’s rich nations almost half a century ago. “There is no doubt,” Chomsky [...]
Counterpunch, July 27, 2018 One of the more darkly amusing narratives in current establishment Democratic Party positioning for the 2018 mid-term elections and the 2020 presidential contest is the claim that the Bernie Sanders tendency represents a radical “socialist” threat that will tip the races to the Republicans and Trump. Never mind that the progressive [...]
Black Agenda Report, August 3, 2018 Until he was tapped as a shiny new national and global asset by the white American ruling-class and catapulted to rock star status in the summer of 2004, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama was not particularly popular in the Black Chicago South Side that he deceptively called “home.” Besides being [...]