Return to the Source: Democracy is Dead
By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does? By Editors, Black Agenda Review / Margaret [...]
Trump as Othello in a Corporate Theater
Like some weird, orange Othello, Donald Trump can truly say: “I have done the [corporate] state some service, and they know it.” By Glen Ford Published on BAR, Jan 21, 2021 [...]
Venezuela: “With this unfortunate episode, the United States is experiencing what it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression.”
Two events stand out in the international news recently that do not seem to have any relationship but may have more than one thinks, at least symbolically: Venezuela installed a new National [...]
Pentagon brass on “red alert” over Trump’s coup plotting
The senior US military command is operating at what amounts to a state of high alert in anticipation of a possible coup attempt by President Donald Trump over the next month aimed at overturning [...]
Occasionally the NYT publishes an article that is worth reading – this is one of them!!!
U.S. “leadership” is a favorite trope of the foreign policy establishment. It’s outdated and dangerous. By Peter Beinart Published on the NYT, Dec 2, 2020 ____________________________________ [...]
Class and Race in the US Presidential election
The following article analysing the US Presidential election was written specifically for an audience in China. However it deals with overall trends in the US Presidential election itself and its [...]
Corporate media begin to acknowledge GOP coup attempt
Even though President Donald Trump had telegraphed his intent months in advance to steal the 2020 election, by planning to get judges, state legislators and/or the Electoral College to [...]
What President Biden won’t touch: foreign policy, sacred cows, and the U.S. military
In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as “Ding dong! The witch is dead!” or “We got robbed!” Both are problematic, not because the two [...]
Freedom Rider: The real Trump coup
Trump is a political force, even as he leaves the White House. He is the true face of the Republican Party, even as “never Trumpers” claim otherwise. Not only do his supporters agree that he was [...]
Pentagon shakeup aimed at paving path to Trump coup
In the midst of the attempt by US President Donald Trump to nullify the 2020 election by means of an extra-constitutional coup, neither Biden and the Democrats, nor the US corporate media, have [...]
