CounterPunch, 8.18.2022 So eager to please, peer pressure decrees Chickenshit conformist like your parents – Dead Kennedys, “Bedtime for Democracy,” 1986 I have no clue… – David Brooks, August 11, 2022 The Scary Orange Victim Narrative The Republican New York Times moralist David Brooks is such a chickenshit conformist. Last Thursday, Brooks responded to the Justice Department and FBI’s [...]
CounterPunch, 8.12.2022 Never underestimate the cynical, fascism-complicit depravity of the dismal, disingenuous and dollar-drenched Dems – the Weimar Democratic Party of “inauthentic opposition” and passive resistance. It’s bad enough that Democrats function as the Republi-fascists’ enabling partner in numerous ways (see this, this, this, and this): demobilizing the majority working-class non-Republican electorate though cringing subordination to corporate, financial, and [...]
CounterPunch, 8.1.2022 There’s nothing new in United States history about the slanderous demonization of those who step up and fight to make a better world from the bottom up. From at least the Molly Maguires (1870s) and the Haymarket Martyrs (1880s) through the rise of the House Un-American Activities in the late 1930s, the 1950s [...]
CounterPunch, 7.29.2022 Memories of a Daisy-Picking Goalie I once watched a small youth soccer game pitting two teams of four and five-year-olds against each other. One of the teams had an aggressive thirty-something buzz-cut white dad coach who egged his team down the field until they somehow managed to nudge the ball though their opponents’ [...]
Counterpunch, 7.22. 2022 I shoulda quit you, long time ago I shoulda quit you, long time ago Then I wouldn’t be here Down on this killing floor – Chester Burnett, aka Howlin’ Wolf, “Down on the Killing Floor” Undelivered Goods Imagine that you are in a buying club that has a big problem. You and [...]
CounterPunch, 7.20.2022 It’s nice that two New York Times video-makers understand that top corporations are lying when they claim to meaningfully address the climate catastrophe. Too bad the underlying system that’s turning the planet into a giant Greenhouse Gas chamber and cancelling prospects for a decent human future is beyond serious scrutiny at the United States’ “paper [...]
There’s dangerous ramifications to doing this. -White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.)’s calls for the Biden administration to use federal land to create places where people can receive abortions in states that restrict them, Difference[s between political parties and their office-holders and candidates] will not [...]
CounterPunch, 7.8.2022 + “Part 2: The Continuing Passive Resistance to the Evisceration of Abortion Rights” will be published next week “The Scale of the Crimes” and “The Meagerness of the Reaction” A question regarding the Democratic Party: at what point does its failure to resist authoritarian Trumpist white nationalism in the streets and public squares get [...]
CounterPunch, 7.4.2022 “Read a book, you might learn something.” – New Left historian Carl Parrini to a generation of students at Northern Illinois University “Fuck your fireworks, fuck your Court, fuck its decisions, and fuck your Fourth.” – The author, somewhere in downtown Chicago, today Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (DOI) and the American “revolution” [...]
CounterPunch, 7.1.2022 This court – illegitimate! This decision – illegitimate! Abortion bans – illegitimate! The whole damn system – illegitimate! Fuck the courts and the legislators, women are not incubators! This decision must not stand, legal abortion across this land! – Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights *This essay was written before I got word that:(a) [...]