How to avoid sinking into cynicism and despair as the chaos and violence seem to sweep through US society? The first step is to understand what is happening and why. Trump and […]
Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton: Why and What Next?
Trump, the 2020 elections and what comes afterwards
There’s a long ways to go between now and November 3, 2020, but if the election were held today, and barring widespread voter suppression and fraud, it seems Trump would handily lose. […]
Mueller testifies: The coverup continues
Democrats and Republicans performed intricate dance steps while trying to lure Robert Mueller onto the dance floor yesterday. He, however, stubbornly refused to move from the wall onto that floor. Republicans The […]
Does a “left” Democrat stand the best chance of defeating Trump?
Does a “left” Democrat – Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren – stand the best chance of defeating Trump next year? They and their supporters argue that such a candidate would enthuse a […]
Trump’s racist tweets show where he’s headed in the coming electon
Three days after Trump’s racist tweets and the day after he set of fascistic “send her back” chants at his rally in Greenville, the AFL-CIO was silent on the issue. So was […]
Epstein arrest: a means of getting at Trump?
The procurer of young girls for the rich and famous – Jeffrey Epstein – has been arrested in New York. He had previously been convicted of similar crimes in Florida. In that […]
Census Drama and Trump’s Strategy
With the concentration camps on the US border, the growing planet climate/environment emergency, the attacks on a woman’s right to make her own reproductive decisions, and the possibility of war with Iran […]
#Jewishresistance in San Francisco protest of concentration camps
Video of July 5 protest by some 200+ people – mainly but not entirely Jewish youth – against Trump’s concentration camps at the US/Mexican border. They were protesting the camps as well […]
Trump postpones war abroad in favor of war at home
Trump is trying to postpone the war abroad (against Iran) in favor of fighting the war at home. He backed down at the last minute as far as a military attack on […]
Trump, “treason”, and bourgeois democracy
On June 20, the Wall St. Journal republished a column from the publisher of the NY Times, A.G. Sulzberger. The column was sharply critical of Trump. Normally, these two publishers are at […]