Tag: Trumpism

  • The Decline of Trumpism and the Crisis of Capitalism

    The chaotic Trump reign over US politics is showing critical signs of weakening on many fronts: Trumponomics is failing: Trumpian immigration policy has stirred a powerful backlash; Teflon Trump has been tarnished by his clumsy, slippery handling of the Epstein scandal; his foreign-policy contradictions and outrages have confused both international friends and foes alike; and […]

  • Loony Bin Rationales: The Continuing War on Iran

    Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues. The rationale for this illegal preemptive war that not only lacks legitimacy but should land its perpetrators in the docks of the International Criminal Court continues to get increasingly muddled.  With US President Donald Trump now given to […]

  • 21st Century Common Sense, Part One

    A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble. This is true for everyone, even the families of those most responsible for this state of affairs, the “Epstein class” and those supporting them. Given the fact that the burning of fossils fuels […]

  • The Epstein/MAGA World as the Will to Power

    The Epstein/MAGA World as the Will to Power

    Dream of the sadist, Otto Dix The Epstein abominations, to state the obvious, are revealing, in lurid detail, hidden in plain sight, unnerving aspects of human nature; withal, what transpires during human sexuality is an analog, sublime and grotesque, redemptive and soul-decimating, of all things human. Epstein and his billionaire boys club exploitation of their […]

  • Fastened to a Dying Animal: The Narcissistic Wound of Hobbled Imperium

    Fastened to a Dying Animal: The Narcissistic Wound of Hobbled Imperium

    A fading empire, like a wounded narcissist facing decline, is a dangerous animal. “…fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.” The things of the world that a narcissist cannot exploit, dominate, and control a narcissist will attempt to destroy. Facing collapse from inner […]

  • Print or Perish: Why the Left Needs to Resurrect Alt-Weeklies to Rebuild Its Base

    After ten years running a digital alt-news site in Western Massachusetts, I came to a hard truth: we’re not reaching the working class through podcasts, Substacks, or social media. This essay blends personal narrative with political strategy to argue that the American left needs to resurrect a forgotten tool of organizing and solidarity—the local print […]

  • Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

    Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

    As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are […]

  • A Not-so-Tongue-in-Cheek “Trumpian Traumatic Stress Disorder”

    A Not-so-Tongue-in-Cheek “Trumpian Traumatic Stress Disorder”

    No doubt like many others who awoke to the news that President Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, Cilia Flores (a serving member of the Venezuelan National Assembly with a distinguished career in government), had been ‘captured’ or ‘seized’ by the US and were being transported to NYC to stand trial, my initial reaction was […]

  • Pastor’s “MAGA vs. Jesus” TikTok Series Dismantling Right-Wing Theology Draws Millions

    Pastor’s “MAGA vs. Jesus” TikTok Series Dismantling Right-Wing Theology Draws Millions

    Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Reverend Dr. Caleb J. Lines, the pastor at University Christian Church in San Diego, California, had heard enough bull-puckery from MAGA Christians about their interpretation of the Bible. According to The Daily Dot’s Rachel Kiley, Rev. Lines has created […]

  • Max Blumenthal : The MAGA Divide: Israel, Epstein, and Kirk Split Trump’s Base

    The prison rape scandal in Israel; is there a defect, an effect of this on domestic policy that Netanyahu’s administration refuses to condemn what every other government in the world condemns, the forcible race rape of a helpless victim? This is a this is a major domestic issue in Israel, a major domestic story. The […]

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