“Trust, But Don’t Verify”: US Intelligence Agencies and the New Cold War
James Clapper at the LBJ Presidential Library, 2016 • Photo by Jay Godwin Just as the first casualty of war is said to be the truth, the first casualty of…
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When Will the US Confront Its Role in Fueling Terror Attacks Across the Planet?
Photo by DVIDSHUB The immensity of the tragedy of Iraq – the cause of great destabilization in West Asia and North Africa – has been utterly forgotten. It is easy…
Trump Trumpets His Real Plans
Illustration by DonkeyHotey Even for a failed gambling czar, Donald Trump has been surprisingly quick to show his hand as he sets the course of his forthcoming presidency. With a…
The Tweet President
Photo from Public Domain If the emperor wants to communicate with the people, he issues an edict, elegantly worded, drawn up by aides. Trump in contrast tweets even as he…
Will Trump Stand Up To Big Business, GOP, Dems & China on Trade?
Photo by Michael Vadon Prof. Wolff joins Thom Hartmann on RT’s The Big Picture. Donald Trump has promised big things for the economy once he takes office. But were the…
The Revival of the Working-Class Concept
Photo by Ted S. Warren/AP The polarization in the country following the Trump electoral victory is not what Karl Marx called the “class struggle.” But it reflects an underlying class…
Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph
The events that led to Donald Trump’s election started in England in 1975. At a meeting a few months after Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative party, one of…
It’s Worse Than You Think
Photo by Richard Drew/AP Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will…
It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a moment on January 22, 2016, to enjoy the view of Davos, Switzerland, before delivering remarks to attendees at the World Economic Forum…
Voters Just Delivered a Mandate to a Pack of Absolute Fiends and Monsters
Photo by Gage Skidmore ‘The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters’, Antonio Gramsci. Donald J. Trump, the outsider…
Revenge of the ‘Deplorables’
Photo by Gage Skidmore The people Hillary Clinton derided as a “basket of deplorables” have spoken. They have voted out of the pain of their economic misfortune, which Clinton’s branch…
Quick reflections on the November 2016 elections
Photo by Gage Skidmore Had it not been for the Electoral College, at this moment we would be discussing the plans for the incoming Hillary Clinton administration. That’s right. She…
The Empire Has No Clothes
Photo by Mobilus In Mobili Watching the 2016 American presidential debates was like seeing a play you’ve already read. You can watch it unfold and be absolutely entertained, but you…
The Neocon in the Oval Office
Photo by Brett Weinstein If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes US President, she will be the first neoconservative to actually occupy that office. The neoconservatives have been an ascendant force in…
The US Election: an Exercise in Mendacity
Image by Rich Girard What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?… There ain’t…
The 1 Percent’s Useful Idiots
Photo by Gage Skidmore PHILADELPHIA—The parade of useful idiots, the bankrupt liberal class that long ago sold its soul to corporate power, is now led by Sen. Bernie Sanders. His…
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Lesser-Evilism: The Liberals who Cried Wolf?
Photo by Ted Eytan Over the past week, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have officially accepted nominations from the Republican and Democratic parties respectively. Whatever one thinks of either…
Green Party Moves Towards Declaring Itself Eco-Socialist
Photo from Public Domain “… it’s clear that the working class in this country is ready for revolution. As the true left discusses reform vs. revolution, the Green Party is…
The U.S. Empire’s Culture Industry, at Large
Photo by The U.S. Army For readers immersed in the annals of Empire, it is well known that the United States is no ordinary country in the world system. The…
Year Of The Outsider: Why Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Rebellion Is So Significant
Image from Public Domain 2016 was supposed to have been the year of Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton: the year when the established Bush dynasty confronted the upstart rival Clinton…