Counterpunch, June 13, 2020 I have never heard it louder than I did this morning. The Interstate highway, I-80, that is, two miles or so north of my abode in Iowa City. It’s a highway to Hell in the heartland of the deranged Superpower that leads the world in per-capita Greenhouse Gassing. All those carbon-spewing, [...]
Counterpunch, June 5, 2020 Last (Wednesday) Night: Interstates Matter Dear XXX.edu History Students: Last night, around maybe 11 pm, I got to taste some especially nasty tear gas along with 500 or so people one-third my age (and less). This taste-test came courtesy of maybe 100 or so state and/or county police in full riot [...]
Counterpunch, June 3, 2020 We’re going to clamp down very, very strong. The word is dominate – Donald Trump, speaking to US governors, June 1, 2020 Danger, danger, there’s a fascist in the White House, it’s up to us to drive him out – Refuse Fascism slogan, 2017-2020 Radical Potential I joined a decent-sized civil and human [...]
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 [...]