Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “We turn on the TV or surf the Internet, and we can watch positions harden and lines drawn, and people retreat to their respective corners, and poli... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Brexit and Donald Trump have been explosive in the sense of a sudden, unexpected, cataclysmic appearance as fact. Whether they go on to explosive as... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “People are so amazed that other people could have a different opinion from them that they don’t want to hear it.” — Robert Bonfiglio, quoted in Nat... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Joseph Natoli “…an instinct of destruction directed against the external world.” Freud, The Ego and the Id, 1923 “Death is a tough... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.” — Elbridge Gerry, 1... Read more
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
The president-elect has raised more than $170 million for his swearing-in, an inaugural record, as wealthy Americans flock to curry favor with him and some give money even without the prospect of V.I.P. access. [...]
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago was a reminder of what the next four years may have in store. [...]
The former congressman was the focus of a House Ethics panel report accusing him of “regularly” paying for sex and using drugs, which helped doom his short-lived nomination for attorney general. [...]
The Bay Area politician, known for her antiwar position and breaking barriers in Congress, just left the House after more than two decades. [...]
Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, became the city’s 46th mayor on Wednesday and laid out a path to restoring the battered city’s luster. [...]
A marriage between the service employees union and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. could better equip organized labor to deal with a less-friendly administration. [...]
