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/ Facts Are there facts that have no alternatives? The molecular composition of the elements, speed of light and sound. And so on. This is the unargua... Read more
Published on http://bad.eserver.org/ HAMLET Denmark’s a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark be... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Is it possible to have a post-truth way of knowing? Is this a greater problem than the “psychotocracy” that a Trump/Bannon regime is creating? “Trum... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ There has always been only an imagined legitimate, reason authorized footing to our ordered, functioning democracy, whose order and functioning have... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. — Herbert Marcuse As this Midwestern university town gets set for NCAA March Ma... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? — William Butler Yeats, 1920 American culture, by which I... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The press is the enemy.” -Richard M. Nixon “The FAKE NEWS media is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” -Donald Trump President... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It i... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its... 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. [...]
