The prospect of far-right vigilantes heading into the streets to contest the results of the November election has even mainstream institutions worried, writes John Feffer.
Category: U.S.
RAY McGOVERN: Trump Orders Russiagate Documents Declassified
The current kerfuffle began a week ago when the director of national intelligence dropped a bombshell on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
ELECTION 2020: Corporations Shouldn’t Manage Another Presidential Debate
The Commission on Presidential Debates is a major cause of lowest common- denominator politics, writes John Buell.
The Man Who Could Be President: Mike Pence, Corporate Theocrat
The vice president, who debates Kamala Harris tonight, ranks high as a Christian soldier marching with Trump on all major policy issues, which routinely put business interests ahead of human lives, writes Norman Solomon.
JOHN KIRIAKAOU: What Would Biden’s Foreign Policy Look Like? Just Look at His Supporters
John Negroponte, the Darth Vader of U.S. foreign policy, and a bevy of Republican former intelligence and interventionists have their reasons for liking the former VP.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Europe Going Its Own Way
Events of the past week show the Continent restoring some of its pre-1945 independence from U.S. hegemony.
RAY MCGOVERN: Comey’s Amnesia Makes Senate Session an Unforgettable Hop, Skip & Jump to Fraud
If Trump loses in November the National Security State will get away with unconscionable misbehavior in the monitoring of campaign aide Carter Page. And if he wins…
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Barrett Nomination Another Step Toward Christian Totalitarianism
All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of religious morality.
The Rise of Christian Nationalism in America
The Bible continues to be weaponized to validate anti-poor, white racist political power, writes Liz Theoharis.
ELECTION 2020: Trump’s Encouragement of GOP Ballot Watchers Echoes Old Tactic of Voter Intimidation
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years conducted without the protections of a court order sparked by Republican tactics in New Jersey in 1981, writes Mark Krasovic.