On Guard, Canada: Trump’s Latest Tweet Storm

Counterpunch, March 14, 2017 Canada is worried about Donald Trump’s latest Tweetstorm.  Maybe it should be. It started with some seemingly innocuous if strange insults last Saturday morning at 4 AM: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump: “Oh Canada: you invented ice hockey but you haven’t won a Stanley Cup in 24 years.  Terrible!  P.S.: Too many [...]

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On and Beyond the Removal of a Jackass President: Impeachment Not Required

Counterpunch, March 10, 2017. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed February 19, 1967, gives the U.S. Vice President, the presidential Cabinet, and Congress the power to remove the President of the United States from office without impeachment. One provision in the Amendment allows the Vice President and a majority [...]

By |2017-04-10T16:10:36-05:00April 10th, 2017|Articles|

The Deep State’s Hatred of Trump Is Not the Same as Yours

Truthdig, March 2, 2017 Last October, three weeks before the presidential election, I wrote an essay for left progressives titled “The Ruling Class’s Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours.” People on the left, I noted, loathed the white-nationalist, quasi-fascist Donald Trump because of his sexism, racism, nativism, authoritarianism, militarism, “law and order” police-state-ism, anti-intellectualism, [...]

By |2017-04-10T16:05:45-05:00April 10th, 2017|Articles|

Notes on Empire and Spiritual Death: a Recent Episode

Counterpunch, March 3, 2017. As prophesized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. just shy of 50 years ago, the United States has become a spiritually dead imperialist atrocity. Look at the recent media discussion of pre-fascist U.S. president Donald Trump’s use of the distressed widow of a US Navy Seal as a nationalist war prop [...]

By |2017-04-10T15:59:25-05:00April 10th, 2017|Articles|
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