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 [...]
Counterpunch, August 14, 2020 Hollow Resistance: The Antidote to Obama Nostalgia Syndrome The deadly ObamaLust Virus is ironically intensified by the fascist Amerikaner presidency the corporate-imperial Barack Obama helped hatch and empower. Here is an antidote that has passed with flying colors through all the testing trials: Paul Street, Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics [...]
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 [...]
I resist the tendency to see the contemporary United States’ many harsh inequalities[1] and crimes[2] as radical departures from the nation’s (supposed) noble and democratic origins. Look at the nation’s founding document, The Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4, 1776. It’s not for nothing that radical democrats cite it in opposition to plutocratic polices [...]
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) [...]