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The Most Dangerous Trump Pick? Jay Bhattacharya

The Most Dangerous Trump Pick? Jay Bhattacharya
23.01.2025 2

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Phil Wilson

The Madness of Luigi Mangione

A calculated and brutal murder of health insurance executive Brian Thompson has ripped open the skin enclosing a vast repository of popular rage.

12.12.2024 3

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Phil Wilson

No Relief in Sight for Gaza

There is no reason to write about the election, the future, or to bend my imagination into a receptacle able to contain and contemplate the...

08.11.2024 2

CounterPunch

Phil Wilson

Donald Trump's MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All

Any serious discussion of Trump leads to one conclusion: something terrible, vast, and irredeemable has befallen us and we have no language to...

16.10.2024 2

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Phil Wilson

Kamala Harris Surrenders to Trump on Border Security and Endorses the War On Drugs

The Democratic Party – for those of us paying attention – has become a shadow of the Republican Party, a miniature MAGA image impaled on the...

02.10.2024 3

CounterPunch

Phil Wilson

Hope, Doomers, and the Climate Emergency

Capitalism is feeding on our "courageous" sense of optimism—as it swallows the planet whole.

23.09.2024 2

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Phil Wilson

Bring on the Climate Doomers! We Need More of Them

I recently complained that public narratives about climate—those promoted on so called mainstream platforms, and featured in cryptic one-liners...

18.09.2024 3

CounterPunch

Phil Wilson

Bring on the Climate Doomers! We Need More of Them

Sure, there might be a few people who will drink from the doomer cup and curl into fetal surrender. But there will be far more who will take this...

15.09.2024 6

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Phil Wilson

A Few Crazy Thoughts Regarding the Batshit Harris-Trump Debate

If you are on your toes, you note what we are witnessing is not about Trump at all. It is about us. What forces us, the raw mass of humanity born...

12.09.2024 2

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Phil Wilson

We May Have No Real Choice This Election, But We Have a Huge Choice to Make Afterwards

The choice is not who to vote for, but what we do after the votes are counted.

02.09.2024 10

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Phil Wilson

On the Distortions and Distractions of the Democratic National Circus

I suffered through much of the three nights of non-reality programming called the 2024 Democratic National Convention. I watched nearly the whole...

28.08.2024 3

CounterPunch

Phil Wilson

Capitalism Is Killing Us, But You Won't Hear a Whisper of It at the Democratic Convention

Out of some sort of atavistic hope, I watched the Democratic Party convention searching for some glimmer of rational wisdom. How stupid of me! I...

22.08.2024 20

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Phil Wilson

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Agree on a Key Point: Moths Will Not Be a 2024 Campaign Issue

The biosphere has been sent to hospice, and we are all on a morphine drip called election coverage.

05.08.2024 20

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Phil Wilson

Be Prepared to Fight Trump's Mass Deportations

Are we poised to witness the greatest domestic act of genocide since the expulsion of Indigenous people?

27.07.2024 10

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Phil Wilson