Counterpunch, August 20, 2020 Record-Setting Absurdity and Mendacity The malignant fascist sociopath Donald Trump lies so voluminously and absurdly that many Americans will believe he said or Tweeted almost anything, no matter how offensive and ridiculous. Every few months for the last three years I’ve been making up off-the-wall Trump statements and sending them out [...]
Tired of reading Paul Street? Listen to him instead! Rising Up with Sonali (Kolhatkar), Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV, September 24, 2020: https://vimeo.com/461576221, September 24, 2020. Counterpunch Radio with Eric Draitser, October 2, 2020: https://store.counterpunch.org/category/counterpunch-radio-podcasts/ Green and Red with Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin, October 2, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP4BPPzh9I&fbclid=IwAR3Ll2mG-XeHWZPnmwspsv2KWuRvfhb0aJYjjDzxKD0Ejk6YwBvFCT9WvIA Rob Johnson, Institute for New Economic [...]
Given its abject captivity to the same corporate and military power structures that control the Republicans, there’s little that the Democratic Party as currently configured could do to convince me to vote for one of its candidates. Still, I do have some advice for Democrats who want to win back some of the progressive support they’ve [...]
What matters is not who’s sitting in the White House. What matters is who’s sitting in. – Howard Zinn Who will save “the progressive movement,” such as it is [1], from the blathering of Robert Kuttner? According to a recent story on National “Public” Radio, leading “disappointed,” “frustrated” and “betrayed” American “progressives” are reflecting on the (not-so) [...]