Counterpunch, July 15, 2016 Zbarackniew BrzObamski One of Barack Obama’s dirty little secrets when he first ran for the United States presidency was that he was first and foremost an Empire man. Beneath his illusory and carefully crafted brand as an antiwar candidate and behind the primacy of domestic questions (chiefly the onset of the [...]
Counterpunch, July 8, 2016 Could the white-nationalist, misogynist, and arch-narcissist reality-show buffoon Donald Trump really become President of the United States? I doubt it but anything is possible. The celebrated pundit of political prognostication Nate Silver has been underestimating Trump throughout the current election cycle. A Perfect Match Perhaps the likelihood of a Donald “Make [...]
Counterpunch, June 28, 2016 “The Revolution Starts Here” In the days leading up to the U.S. electoral holy day that is the Iowa Presidential Caucus, Iowa was briefly home to a large number of Bernie Sanders-backing political visitors with out-of-state license plates and banners proclaiming on the sides of their gas-guzzling SUVs that “the Revolution [...]
Counterpunch, June 24, 2016 History is written by the winners – George Orwell, February 4, 1944 “The Few” v. “The Many” Alexander Hamilton was no people’s champion. After four years serving as American Revolutionary War General George Washington’s chief of staff, Hamilton took up rhetorical and political arms against the egalitarian tendencies of the revolutionary [...]
Counterpunch, June 16, 2016 Deletion and de-contextualization are standard instruments in the corporate U.S. media’s propagandistic, power-serving toolbox. The nightly news streams endless terrifying images of violent inner city Black criminality with no reference the savage jobless poverty imposed on the Black community by contemporary state-capitalist race-class apartheid. The typical white suburban news viewer is [...]
Counterpunch, June 10, 2016 I spoke last April at San Diego State University about what two clever Left political scientists there rightly called “the debasing spectacle” of the 2016 presidential election. I was asked to address four and excellent, thought-provoking questions, each of which are highlighted in boldface in the essay below, followed by my [...]
Counterpunch, May 27, 2016 any Bernie Sanders activists and supporters are understandably disgusted by the contemptuous mistreatment they and their candidate have received from the corporate-Clintonite Democratic Party and its numerous media allies. The examples of this disrespect and abuse include: The discourteous rapid-fire inquisition that the New York Daily News editorial board conducted with [...]
Counterpunch, May 20, 2016 Liberal Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters get defensive when they hear that Mrs. Clinton is favored over Donald Trump by right-wing billionaires like Charles Koch and (with much more enthusiasm) by leading arch-imperial foreign policy Neoconservatives like Robert Kagan, Max Boot, and Eliot Cohen. But an honest look at Hillary’s record should [...]
Counterpunch, May 17, 2016 “Mainstream” U.S. media is struck by the “strange bedfellows” phenomenon whereby a number of right wing foreign policy neoconservatives and top business elites – including at least one of the notorious hard right-wing Koch brothers – are lining up with Democrat Hillary Clinton against the Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. [...]
Counterpunch, May 13, 2016 A recent New York Daily News headline runs as follows: “Obama to Pay Historic Visit to Hiroshima but Will Not Apologize for U.S. Dropping Atomic Bomb on Japanese City.” Well, how about Nagasaki? Could Obama apologize for Nagasaki when he visits Japan later this month? Don’t get me wrong. Hiroshima was [...]