US Politics
Make a Plan to Resist
by Paul Street
October 30, 2020
The cable news talking heads seem obsessed with Joe Biden’s “significant” lead over Donald Trump in the national polls...
Prospect of right-wing violence and police repression hangs over US election
By Eric London
Oct. 27, 2020
With one week remaining until the US election on November 3, additional details are emerging of right-wing plans for election...
‘Dark Winter’
by Richard C. Gross
October 27, 2020
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
It’s the pandemic, Mr. President.
COVID-19 is the most dangerous health disaster to hit the United...
Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court by GOP senators
By Jennifer Haberkorn
Oct. 26, 2020
The Senate on Monday confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in the most partisan confirmation vote for a...
Trump vs. Biden in context. An analogy with the ‘30s (*)
If we look at what is happening in US-Russian and US-Chinese relations, in the wider Middle East, the former Soviet republics or Latin America,...
Trump escalates coup plotting with swearing-in of Supreme Court Justice Amy...
By Patrick Martin
Oct. 27, 2020
One week before the US presidential election, there is an expanding political conspiracy spearheaded by President Trump to hijack the...
“How Can You Not Be Worried?”
Famed Journalist Bob Woodward brought down U.S. President Richard Nixon with his reporting on the Watergate scandal. Now he talks to DER SPIEGEL about...
The dumbing down of America
By Carl Sagan
October 19, 2020
Extract from, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
- 1995 - By Carl Sagan.
I have a foreboding...
A BFD: Biden Finally Rejects The GOP’s Austerity Talking Points
After pushback, Biden thankfully dropped his old deficit hawkery and made a strong statement. Will he be held to his new position if he...
From Assassinations to Sanctions: Emergency Powers and the Rise of the...
A decades-long push to concentrate power in the Oval Office through emergency response legislation has made the Office of the President more powerful than...