Counterpunch, July 12, 2019 Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media’s role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance Two Sundays ago, in a [...]
Counterpunch, June 28, 2019 As any sentient progressive should know, NBC and MSNBC (hereafter “MSDNC”) are media assets owned by and subservient to the United States capitalist and imperialist ruling class. Last Wednesday night during MSDNC’s opening Democratic presidential candidate debate, NBC’s nightly news anchor Lester Holt asked ten White House contenders about the popular [...]
Paul Street The Leek August 23rd, 2019 10:37 AM Chicago, IL – In a Tweet that took the world by surprise this morning, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the tiny 90% Black Caribbean island of Anguilla, a British overseas territory, with “thermonuclear liquidation the likes of which it has never before experienced.” “They won’t be [...]
Black Agenda Report, June 26, 2019 A Mayoral Sighting in the Wrong City I saw Mayor Pete at the local downtown Farmers’ Market a month or so ago. I should be more specific. I saw Pete Butiggieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, at the downtown Farmers’ Market in Iowa City, Iowa. To what did I [...]
Counterpunch, June 26, 29019 Coughing is a Sign of Weakness The television footage of White House acting Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney being kicked out of the Oval Office by Donald Trump for coughing during a television shoot with ABC’s George Stephonopolous was chilling. “Let’s do that over, he’s coughing in the middle of my answer,” Trump said. “I [...]
Counterpunch, June 21, 2019 Our future has never ever looked brighter or sharper – Donald Trump I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me ‘boy.’ He always called me ‘son.’” – Joe Biden A common media narrative on Donald Trump is that he foolishly fails to run on his greatest [...]
Truthdig, June 20, 2019 “It’s 2016 All Over Again.” So claims the title of a recent column by Peter Nicholas in The Atlantic. By “2016 all over again,” Nicholas means that Donald Trump, now president, has expressed a willingness to accept campaign help from a foreign power in the 2020 election. The president’s comments upset Nicholas. “A [...]
Counterpunch, June 14, 2019 It’s my sort, the Responsible Citizens who’ve felt superior because we’ve been well-to-do and what we thought was ‘educated,’ who brought on the…Fascist Dictatorship… * Doremus Jessup, a liberal and social democrat, reflecting ruefully from an American fascist prison in Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here (1935) There’s something happening here. What [...]
Counterpunch, June 3, 2019 The corporate Democrats can see through false dichotomies when it suits them to do so. When National Rifle Association Republicans ritually assert (after big mass shootings, like the recent one in Virginia Beach) that “people kill people, guns don’t kill people,” smart corporate Democrats point out that the extreme number of [...]
Counterpunch, May 31 If historians still exist years from now, some of them will be struck by how Donald Trump’s Democratic Party critics and their media allies obsessed over the 45th United States President’s real and alleged connections to Russia while saying comparatively little about his enactment of a soulless anti-environmental agenda that accelerated humanity’s march [...]