It was a surreal scene straight out of “Brave New World”. A shirt sleeved crowd, composed in part of representatives of climate change deniers like the Koch Brothers’ “American Energy Alliance” and […]
Is the United States headed towards its greatest political crisis since the US Civil War? It seems that might be the case. With London bookies giving more or less even odds on […]
Often a movement from below is foretold by a crisis at the top. Is that what is happening now? A recent article by Max Boot seems to show that. Boot, a former lifelong […]
President Trump’s firing of FBI director Comey represents a political crisis for US, and therefore for world, capitalism. “Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the […]
Trump’s invitation to Philippine president Duterte is a warning for what he (Trump) has planned for the black communities in the US. So far, he’s proceeded a little cautiously on that front, […]
Here is a commentary from the Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists regarding Trump’s latest bombing of Syria. We specifically say his “latest bombing” because this is far from the first. It’s […]
If life imitates art, then the behind-the-scenes Trump story is torn from the pages of a John Le Carre novel. For those who don’t know his books, they are political and social […]
This is a real crisis both for the US capitalist class and for Trump. Every night CNN has over an hour raking Trump over the coals over this “Russia” issue. Much of […]
You would have to be a capitalist or Rip Van Winkle to expect anything positive to come from Trump’s appointments, but that’s not the point. Looking at his two latest to be […]
Trump spent his first month in office consolidating his base among the bigots and the deluded. He also spent it building a team that will lead a massive assault on the environment, […]
