Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “‘Pataphysics is the science of the realm beyond metaphysics”. Alfred Jarry, author of Ubu Roi, 1896 Pace Hillary and Trump but manufacturing... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ In the eyes of Republicans, the looming battle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for the Presidency of the United States is a looming... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Both politics and religion are taking on, in different ways, the popular tide against core beliefs, that tide amounting to the triumph of personal o... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ We expected Trump to fizzle because we were not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully enough. David Brooks, “... 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
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “If you’re playing in a game where the rules turn out to be rigged, you need to change the game.” — Institute for Policy Studies, “Game Changers,” T... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ In answer to that question raised by Lewis Carroll through Alice, Justice Antonin Scalia would answer with a firm, outsized “NO.” Justice Sca... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Obama’s basic approach is to promote his values as much as he can within the limits of the situation. Bernie Sanders, by contrast, has been so blin... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “[W]e don’t know how to deal with rumors. Rumors that confirm people’s biases are now believed and spread among millions of people. . .We ten... Read more
The decision, revealed in a filing in a Colorado clerk’s bid to overturn her conviction, marks another example of President Trump’s Justice Department intervening to aid supporters or go after foes. [...]
Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney in Washington, has been blocked so far in seeking a grand jury investigation into remarks made by Senator Chuck Schumer about Supreme Court justices. [...]
The directive, which takes effect immediately, affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipelines and on order. [...]
Tuesday night’s address will be a remarkable return to a chamber that President Trump last addressed five years ago, before voters ousted him from office. [...]
Republicans argued the bill was essential to protecting women and girls, but also made clear they were bringing it up to portray Democrats as outside the mainstream. It stalled in the Senate. [...]
He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with bullying Communist-era officials. [...]
