Counterpunch

Image by Kelly Sikkema. On July 7, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI released a joint, unsigned memorandum that began with these words: “As part of our commitment to transparency….” The two-page memorandum reveals that these federal agencies had searched...

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats —  are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...

Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...

Image by Kelly Sikkema. On July 7, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI released a joint, unsigned memorandum that began with these words: “As part of our commitment to transparency….” The two-page memorandum reveals that these federal agencies had searched...

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats —  are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...

Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...

Image by Kelly Sikkema. On July 7, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI released a joint, unsigned memorandum that began with these words: “As part of our commitment to transparency….” The two-page memorandum reveals that these federal agencies had searched...

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats —  are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...

Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Yes, Bibi– you are losing your game. You placed bets on the lives of others not only the lives of your enemies but also those of your own citizens who are slowly dying while you are oblivious to their fate. But one day you will be...