Counterpunch, April 19, 2019 Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy. I’m not even a big believer in democracy. – Stephen Moore, a potential future member of the Federal Reserve Board The dominant American ideology has long claimed that capitalism is about democracy. It isn’t – and one need not be an anti-capitalist “radical” to [...]
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Counterpunch, April 12, 2019 Not a False Dichotomy: (Eco-)Socialism or Exterminist Capitalism Antonio Gramsci would be impressed by the “liberal” Democratic Party broadcast network MSNBC, whose function is to advance the political hegemony of finance capital between drug, car, business consulting, insurance, and financial services commercials for affluent Baby Boomers. Last Wednesday the discussion became [...]
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 [...]