Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “[T]he aims and objectives of war would immediately shift to “the arteries that make money.” — Erik Prince to Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson Tonig... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The solution of social problems consisted in the adjustment of conflicting interests; and the real business of politics, then, was simply the contr... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” — Socrates We now seem divided into the exasperated, the fearful and trembling, the threatened, the vindicated,... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The critical question is: When, or will, Trump’s voters realize that he isn’t delivering on his promises, that his health care and tax proposals wi... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future.” Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1814 Shelley... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Consider the various shifting winds at the backs of President-elect Trump, his Followers, clearly only vaguely defined but no less a real third enti... Read more
Published on http://www.truth-out.org/ “a single event can have infinitely many interpretations.” “disorganization is a kind of anesthesia” — Jenny Holze... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Nothing happened to them. There wasn’t some awful disaster. There wasn’t a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. Even the economic c... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind” So, we have a clear view of the Republican Party reaping their whirlwind: Donald L. Trump. Those w... Read more
The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump. [...]
Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president. [...]
Steve Witkoff’s involvement with two sovereign wealth funds as he bought and then sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel demonstrates the potential conflicts his new role will present. [...]
The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class. [...]
Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing. [...]
The administration is pressing the World Anti-Doping Agency to allow an outside audit after it failed to suspend Chinese swimmers for positive tests. [...]
