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/ Let’s consider two quotes: “To interpret is to determine the force which gives sense to a thing.” Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy “To opini... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ I wonder if the battle lines drawn over Trump are deep into personalities to the point that we are missing the movement of intellectual history goin... 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/ 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
For much of the period since Election Day, the billionaire has been staying at a $2,000-a-night cottage at Mar-a-Lago, giving him easy access to the president-elect. [...]
The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison. [...]
Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad. [...]
President Biden is yet another one-term Democrat hurt by inflation and struggling to free hostages before leaving office. But Mr. Carter’s enhanced reputation offers hope that he too may be remembered more favorably. [...]
The Iran hostage crisis became a symbol of a failed presidency, but for some of those who lived it, Jimmy Carter was the one who brought them home at the expense of his political career. [...]
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings. [...]
