
Good Guys/Bad Guys
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org There is one common reason for the collapse of democracy: capitalist...

Ignorant and Free Doesn’t Work
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilizat...

What Can He Do?
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; Around and...

Who Gets Burnt in the Politics of Passion?
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and c...

Get the Hell Out of My Way
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “You can! You must. When those few are the best. Deny the best its ri...

Macbeth Had Ambition
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org I will support and defend the Constitution of the United State...






“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
High-speed internet response, millions of Google responses to our searches, a growing number of colorful Apps on our phones and an amazing computer memory capacity may support buying... Read more
The prosecution took a liking to its own roman. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamasov Published on http://truth-out.org We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.... Read more
“People believe what they want to believe because the guy who made this was so good that it’s real to everybody. Now who’s the master, the painter or the forger?”... Read more
Each society determines which thoughts and feelings shall be permitted to arrive at the level of awareness and which have to remain unconscious. Just as there is a social character, there is... Read more
NY Times – Politics

The U.S. Postal Service has long struggled with its finances. President Trump and Mr. Musk have both suggested it should be privatized. [...]

“I don’t think we should give him oxygen on any platform — ever, anywhere,” the Democratic governor of Kentucky said of President Trump’s former chief strategist. [...]

In pleading guilty during his military-court martial, Jack Teixeira made a direct appeal to President Trump, reflecting a tactic being employed by an increasing number of convicted criminals and their lawyers. [...]

The talks suggest that the effort to shrink the size of the federal work force could soon turn to a critical arm of the intelligence community. [...]

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due process. [...]

By grabbing a loaded handgun from Squeaky Fromme in 1975, Mr. Buendorf, as part of a Secret Service detail, thwarted a would-be assassin in California’s capital. [...]