Wikipedia. Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and conservatives like James Carville and Chris Cuomo – brother of Mamdani’s reading rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo – have all but denounced...
Counterpunch
Putin-Trump Meeting: Endgame or PR Event?
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a location in Alaska. Indications are the meeting will occur as soon as August 15, 2025 or soon after. In other words, in just days. Or perhaps a week or so at most. If...
Trump’s Craziness on BLS
Photo by Jonathan Cooper Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make him look bad. There is an effort by Republicans, and some in the media, to rewrite history in front of our eyes and to...
Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. ...
It Will Take National Single Payer to Save Rural Hospitals
Photograph Source: Daquella manera – CC BY 2.0 After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close. Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the Center, announced that the cuts to Medicaid in the budget...
Requiem for the Rule of Law
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The phrase “Rule of Law” (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined. Google calls it “a principle under which all persons, institutions and entities are accountable to laws that are: [P]publicly promulgated,...
Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy
Wikipedia. Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and conservatives like James Carville and Chris Cuomo – brother of Mamdani’s reading rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo – have all but denounced...
Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. ...
It Will Take National Single Payer to Save Rural Hospitals
Photograph Source: Daquella manera – CC BY 2.0 After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close. Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the Center, announced that the cuts to Medicaid in the budget...
Requiem for the Rule of Law
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The phrase “Rule of Law” (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined. Google calls it “a principle under which all persons, institutions and entities are accountable to laws that are: [P]publicly promulgated,...
Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy
Wikipedia. Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and conservatives like James Carville and Chris Cuomo – brother of Mamdani’s reading rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo – have all but denounced...
Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy
Wikipedia. Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and conservatives like James Carville and Chris Cuomo – brother of Mamdani’s reading rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo – have all but denounced...