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“Back to the Stone Ages”: Donald Trump’s Vicious Fools’ Day Speeches

Two nights ago, during his insane war speech on Iran the demented lunatic atop the US Empire claimed to have created the “highest ever” stock...

03.04.2026 10

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“The Left’s Top Job This Year”? Academics In and Out Imperialist Quicksand

I have long been horrified by the unradical nothingness of our supposed “radical Left” academics, many of whom lined up behind the...

26.03.2026 6

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Would Heather Digby Parton Prefer Hitler Atop the US Empire?

So what’s worse than a fascist atop world history’s most lethal superpower in the middle of an ecological catastrophe led by that superpower in an...

23.01.2026 60

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Dr. King’s Forgotten Warnings About “the Rise of a Fascist State in America”

As Americans gather next Monday to celebrate the legacy of the great martyred civil rights and social justice leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a...

16.01.2026 20

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An ICE Murder in Minneapolis and its Horrific Aftermath

The fascist Trump Gestapo murder of the 37-year-old legal observer, poet, and mother Renee Nicole Good two days ago is horrific almost beyond words:...

09.01.2026 10

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Donald Trump’s Scary Weird Address to the Nation

The debased and deranged wannabe fascist strongman-for-life Donald Trump’s bizarre, nationally televised speech to the American people last...

22.12.2025 20

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Total Trump Absurdity

Let’s dig into some of the total unmitigated absurdity — the deranged, preposterous, mind-boggling, soul-crushing absurdity — of America’s...

15.12.2025 30

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Trump's Fascist National Security Strategy Is Full of Hemispheric Menace

13.12.2025 9

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For Trump, There Is No Rock Bottom

04.11.2025 10

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Hate and Fear Ruling Trump’s Sick America

“The Children of MAGA” Cambridge Dictionary online defines the meaning of the phrase “pearl clutching” as follows: “a shocked reaction in...

17.10.2025 8

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Trump Wants Martial Law: A Report and Reflections from Chicago

Chicago is now ground zero in the Trump fascist regime’s assault on democracy, the rule of law, social justice, decency, and the common good. Recent...

10.10.2025 10

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“Unity Not Trump’s Mission”: Any More Late-Breaking Bulletins from The New York Times?

Last Sunday’s New York Times featured the paper’s top White House correspondent Peter Baker’s late-breaking discovery that “In an Era of...

16.09.2025 10

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Sorry, Trump, Slavery Was Horrific and Central to the Rise of American Capitalism

28.08.2025 10

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Chicago On Guard: Trump’s Looming Fascist Invasion

I was talking to a journalist the other day and we were both stumped on what formal legal justification, if any, the demented fascist leader Trump –...

27.08.2025 20

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A Declaration of Independence From Trump’s Fascist America

04.07.2025 10

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Trump’s “21st-Century Fascist Regime” So Far: A Terrible Record

Every day that Americans don’t rise-up in the millions against the malignant fascist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump to demand his immediate...

12.06.2025 20

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David Brooks Gets Something Right

You know something is up when the longtime deeply conservative establishment pundit David “Aw Shucks” Brooks calls for a “a comprehensive...

25.04.2025 10

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Why Trump is So Willing to Defy Public Opinion

Reading Donald Trump’s endless and nauseating prime time address to Congress last Tuesday night, I was struck by how completely and weirdly willing...

07.03.2025 10

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No Popular Mandate for this Insane Administration

In the opening days of his second presidency, the malignant, orange-sprayed fascist maniac Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump has, in the words of...

06.02.2025 10

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