Counterpunch, 12.22.2021 The United States is moving beyond bourgeois democracy atop capitalism towards fascism atop capitalism with the population and some parts of the ruling class divided horizontally between: + the (supposed) left and (an actual and ever more dangerous) right. + red (Republican and blue (Democrat). + metropolitan and rural America. + white and nonwhite America. [...]
CounterPunch+ , 12.12.2021 Listening by chance to some United States of America (USA) “heartland” Caucasians spew racist nonsense in defense of the fascist teen vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse (the killer of two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin), I was reminded once again that millions upon millions of US-American whites are badly F’d in the [...]
1.17.2021, re-post from Counterpunch+ (subscription) on 10.24.2021. Next December readers will be able to purchase my next book This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberalism, and the Trumping of America, 2017-2021. Completed in June of this year, the volume ends on a somber note, quoting the centrist Atlantic editor Jeffrey Golbderg’s June 14 reflection (ominously titled “The Capitol Riot was [...]
Counterpunch, 12.10.2021 Sixty percent of the U.S. populace backs Roe v. Wade and just 27 percent back its undoing even as the nation’s right-wing Supreme Court is strongly predisposed to reverse the decision by next summer. Where is the call for millions in the streets to defend women’s right to control their bodies over and against this anti-democratic [...]
Counterpunch, 12.3.2021 In case you haven’t heard, the bio-terrorist Donald Trump tried to kill Joe Biden late in the 2020 presidential campaign. Three days before his first and not-so “presidential” debate with the 79-year-old Biden, the pandemicist lunatic Trump tested positive for COVID-19. This test has bever been reported until now, with the release of his [...]
Counterpunch, 11.30.2021 The trial that exonerated the teen protester-killer, Kyle Rittenhouse, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the trial that convicted three white men of murdering the young Black man Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia had some key similarities and some important differences. Similarities Both trials deliberated on events that included: murder by armed vigilantes claiming to [...]
Counterpunch, 11.22.2021 The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict is a declaration of open season for the hunting down of anti-racists. It is of course a despicable travesty, unsurprising given the conduct of the trial’s openly demented right-wing judge Bruce Schroeder and the revanchist Trumpism of the 90% white county from which the jury was pulled. But terrible [...]
Counterpunch, 11.19.2021 Charlie Brown and Lucy, Again and Again What is to be done about the capital-driven fascistic and ecocidal madness afoot in the world’s most dangerous nation – the subjects of my last three Counterpunch essays? Let’s reflect a bit on what is not to be done. The ongoing sado-capitalist slashing and potential liquidation of the Build Back [...]
December 8, 2021 When we take to the streets as we must to protest the illegitimate Trump-stacked high court’s sickening negation of Roe v. Wade next year, let us make our protest about more than the (very) important single issue of abortion and the dysfunctional goal of “speaking truth to power.” Our demonstrations should be about [...]
Counterpunch, 11.16.2021 Never forget the inspiring righteousness of the great George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and Jacob Blake Rebellion of 2020 – the popular uprising that sent the fascist president Donald Trump down into his bunker and helped undo his presidency. And never forget the sacrifice of the 14 martyrs who were murdered for participating in the uprising. Some of those martyred [...]