John Steppling “It is this author’s analysis that the effect of the Donald Trump presidency has been, somewhat paradoxically, to put wind in the sails of a kind of...

CJ Hopkins Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, folks, because the neoliberal Resistance is back, and this time they’re not playing around. No more impeachments and investigations. It’s time...

Binoy Kampmark A note of fraternal tension has been registered between the United Kingdom and Australia. It began with Britain’s decision to permit China’s technology giant Huawei a role...

Binoy Kampmark Interfering, corrupting and altering the views of electors is apparently frowned upon. But it all depends on who that manipulating source is. The Russians might be condemned...

Renée Parsons For those who believe that there is more to life than just the physical, material world, the role of karma is well understood. Popularly known as what-goes-...

Bruce Lesnick In the 1940s and 50s, advocating Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism could get you fired from your job, blacklisted, deplatformed and even imprisoned. Though communists and socialists...

Prof. Anthony Hall In responding to an attack on a media venue about which I care a lot, this Canadian from Alberta Canada is being pulled into the swamp....

Max Parry As this article was going to press, it was formally confirmed – as was long expected – that the Senate had found Donald Trump not guilty of...

Binoy Kampmark In this year of the presidential elections, President Donald J. Trump shows little sign of cowering. It had been some time in coming, but here was a...

Binoy Kampmark Whatever the claims by the Democratic pollsters on the ground, the party has all the work to do ahead of selecting a candidate to make a fist...

Renée Parsons We now know that, before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, the FBI had the ouster of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the President’s National Security Adviser,...

This is just an open thread to focus discussion on the breaking news of the day. The last day of the first month of 2020 is shaping up to...

CJ Hopkins I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I’m a little worried about Donald Trump. I’m worried he may be on the verge of a sudden,...

Philip Roddis The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set...

Renée Parsons As the structure and form of institutions continue to breakdown offering new perspectives and unexpected revelations, it is fitting that former FBI Director James Comey continues to...

CJ Hopkins So, 2020 is off to an exciting start. It’s barely the middle of January, and we’ve already made it through World War III, which was slightly less...

Binoy Kampmark On the surface, it made not one iota of sense.  The murder of a foreign military leader on his way from Baghdad airport, his diplomatic status assured...

Catte Black It’s increasingly clear that – short of QAnon’s wild idea that it’s all about engineering total US withdrawal from the Middle East – no coherent plan was...

Catte Black The dust is settling somewhat over the latest and strangest act of imperial hubris in the Middle East, and a few things are becoming clearer – though...

The US govt has confirmed it deliberately targeted leading Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in its missile (some say drone) attack near Baghdad airport that killed 10 people, including Soleimani...