Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “I dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson We cannot read the future but we can read the present. Both the probabilities and possibilities that wha... Read more
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline. [...]
Here is what we know about the billions in funds that have led to federal investigations, lawsuits and frozen bank accounts for climate nonprofit groups. [...]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said top diplomats from the Group of 7 allies meeting in Canada should focus on ending the war. And he shrugged off President Trump’s threats to annex Canada. [...]
The California governor hosted one of the architects of President Trump’s political movement on his new podcast, and their friendly sparring revealed a few points of agreement. [...]
The ongoing Israeli military assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank is part of a larger Israeli ethnic cleansing plan, a systematic effort to forcibly displace Palestinians from [...]
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This stigmatizing, and frankly racist, statement about people from the Global South was not blurted out by Trump during his rambling anti-immigrant tirades, nor shouted by a MAGA crowd, nor [...]
It’s tradition for Democrats to get loud and radical whenever they lose an election, posing as bold obstacles to any Republican agenda. But this time things are different. The Democratic [...]