Video: Operatico Politico vs Trump (Rossini Edition)
. Opera singers Rebecca Nelsen and Eric Stoklossa of Operatico Politico brilliantly summarize the Trump administration with a little help from Rossini. .
Lauren McCauley: Exxon and Tillerson Accused of Defrauding Investors Over Climate Risks
New York attorney general claims the oil giant used “secret, internal figures” to account for impacts of climate change. ExxonMobil is being accused of using “sham” accounting to “mislead” investors … Continue reading
Binta Baxter: Trump’s Budget Is a Blueprint for a Banana Republic-Style Military Dictatorship
The overall implication of this budget should have all Americans on alert. The Trump Administration has officially unveiled its proposed budget to “Make America Great Again,” and by all accounts … Continue reading
Chard deNiord: Herr President
Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses he toys with the tributes of half-men. — From “The Stalin Epigram” by Osip Mandelstam Have you no sense of decency, sir?— Joseph … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Death of the Republic
The deep state’s decision in ancient Rome—dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the United States of 2017—to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in … Continue reading
Video: Stephen Fry Explains Why Some People Believe Everything Donald Trump Says
. “The incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence.” Supporters of President Donald Trump believe just about everything he says, and Trump himself seems to have absolute confidence in … Continue reading
Greg Thielen: Bumper Sticker Politics in the Age of Trump
I grew up in Arizona during a time when it was more desert than concrete, when there were a lot of dirty pickup trucks sporting gun racks, roll bars, and, … Continue reading
Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: We Must Have a Special Prosecutor
The firing of FBI Director James Comey makes an independent investigation of Trump and Russia more important than ever. So Donald Trump fired James Comey because the FBI director mistreated … Continue reading
Andrew J. Bacevich: What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss
24 Key Issues That Neither the Washington Elite Nor the Media Consider Worth Their Bother Donald Trump’s election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from … Continue reading
Michael Simms: The Daily Disaster of Donald Trump
With a vote of 217-213, the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass Trumpcare and strip health coverage from 24 million Americans. The new program will undermine the health, … Continue reading
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese: A Failing Empire
The United States is a failing empire: the domestic economy has fallen to a level equivalent to a developing nation for most of us while the stock markets, especially for weapons-makers, are … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Unpredictable. Unhinged. Dangerous — On Losing An Armada and Other Acts of Shocking Ignorance
If you haven’t been following the Strangelovian Korea debacle – so many debacles, so little time – it’s still, alas, unfolding thanks to our utterly clueless loser-in-chief and his historically … Continue reading
Hank Edson: Reaching Impeachment Critical Mass
Regaining Our Common Sense Two things are inhibiting our exercise of common sense as a self-governed people: First, the cancer of our corporate media monopoly has ravaged the culture of … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: Americans Bracing for More War Under Trigger-Happy Trump
‘It is as if he has discovered the keys to the family gun cabinet’ The American public is bracing for war now that President Donald Trump has seemingly stumbled upon … Continue reading
