Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with... Read more
I been down so long : it seem like up to me Furry Lewis, “I Will Turn Your Money Green” A Gallup Poll puts Hillary Clinton’s favorability among African-Americans at 80% and Bernie Sanders at... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Let’s focus on the middle class.” — Rick Santorum, March 7, 2015 “Everyday Americans” removes political discussion even further from a consi... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “You know Southie’s gotten gentrified. I guess you can’t stop progress.” — Ray Donovan, Showtime TV series, 2015 “It was a real wake-up call... Read more
Our attachments to Trump are far below the level of rational understanding and as these underground or abyss level attachments have proven politically potent in the past, we ca... Read more
Published on http://bad.eserver.org/ I have bedimm’d/ The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds,/ And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured vault/ Set roaring war. . . graves at... Read more
“The most important thing each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbors’ eyes. To imagine what it is like to walk in their shoes, t... Read more
Published on http://truth-out.org I declined my recent invitation to join the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, which came in the form of conservative Dinesh D’Souza’s tweet: “... Read more
“Instead of raising the bar in pursuit of objectivity, the current working group doubled down on its 2007 summary: It unfurls a series of distortions designed to magnify the threats, i... Read more
The economics of immiseration would be impossible without the politics of seduction, and capitalism’s appeal to our unconscious will to power and domination is not easily countered.... 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. [...]
