Counterpunch, April 9, 2019 In the last years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke against what he called “the triple evils that are interrelated” – economic inequality, racism, and militarism. If King were alive today, he’d be talking about the five evils that are interrelated, adding patriarchy and Ecocide, the destruction of livable ecology. [...]
Counterpunch, APRIL 5, 2019 Fake-Progressive Identity Cloaking Beyond the identity-politicized excitement of Chicago electing its first Black female chief executive and becoming the largest U.S. city to have a Black female mayor (and to have a gay mayor), there wasn’t all that much for a leftist to choose from between victor Lori Lightfoot and her [...]
Counterpunch, March 29, 2019 Did the Russian government make some efforts to intervene on Donald Trump’s behalf in the 2016 United States presidential election? Has Trump’s behavior toward Russia been odd, to say the least, for a U.S. president? Has Trump had significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin? Does Putin very [...]
Counterpunch March 21, 20019 “You’re going to have to shut up or I’ll call the police…Get out of here you low-life scum.” — John McCain’s statement to peace activists calling for the arrest of epic war criminal Henry Kissinger, January 29. 2015 Yes, Trump is Disgusting Is it disgusting and pathetic that the mentally deranged [...]
By Paul Street Counterpunch, March 19, 2019 “I Have the Tough People” Recently Donald Trump, the orange mother of all assholes, said this in an interview with the proto-fascistic alt-right Website Breitbart News: “You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, [...]
Truthdig, March 13, 2019 I suppose we all owe UCLA economist and Hoover Institution senior fellow Lee Ohanian a debt of gratitude for telling us how it is. The “free market” propagandist recently took to the pages of The Hill, a Washington, D.C., journal for political insiders, to explain that the holy laws of economics [...]
Counterpunch, March 13, 2019 Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair I find Donald Trump reprehensible as a human being, but a socialist candidate is more dangerous to this company, country, as far as the strength and well-being of the country, than Donald Trump. I would vote for Donald Trump, a despicable human being…I will be so [...]
Counterpunch, March 8, 2019 The media and political establishments are diddling while the planet burns. Are we really supposed to take their games seriously as humanity veers ever more dangerously off the environmental cliff? In 2008, James Hansen, then head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and seven other leading climate scientists reported that we would [...]
Counterpunch, March 8, 2019 I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, there will never be a peaceful transition of power. – Michael Cohen, speaking to the U.S. Congress, February 27, 2019 It’s the silences – the things left out and sent down the “memory hole” – that strike me most in the [...]
Truthdig, February 21, 2019 On CNN last week, morning host Poppy Harlow interviewed liberal Democratic Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island. Harlow aired a poll showing that socialism is now preferred over capitalism by fully 57 percent of U.S. Democrats. Then she asked Cicilline if this indicates that the Democratic Party is shifting in the direction of [...]