For four long years, the United States of America has suffered the presidency of a narcissistic reality-TV actor incompetently playing his role as president. But finally this embarrassing charade of governance has come to an end. Yet, incapable of handling the truth of his loss to president-elect Joe Biden, this spoiled man-child has spent the More
Source: Time to End Trump’s Incredible Damage to Our Nation – CounterPunch.org
Trump actually gave his active support to this fascist rally… he drove thru. We cannot let them get the initiative back in society. They must go! pic.twitter.com/3EeFKqsLXa
— Sunsara Taylor (@SunsaraTaylor) November 14, 2020
Trump has not yet accepted electoral defeat, and his remaining days as U.S. presidency until Biden’s inauguration may represent the period of greatest threat of armed intervention in Venezuela, especially before December 6, the date of the country’s next legislative elections. In addition to trying to judicially question the outcome of the elections – an increasingly remote possibility – Trump[Read More…]
Source: The coming weeks could be the period of greatest threat to Venezuela | Countercurrents
With Donald Trump soon to be exiled from the White House, four years of speculation about the precise degree of departure from the normal course of American imperial management is about to be put to the test. Any path forward will be a consequence of the trends, processes and trajectories that were set in motion at the end of WWII. These were given new meaning by the capitalist revolution (neoliberalism) of the 1970s. Two years ago various United Nations environmental committees began to issue warnings that unless dramatic changes are made, the planet will soon be uninhabitable. The question: will it be political leaders or capital that stands in the way? More
Source: The Problem of Capitalist Politics, Nukes and Climate Change Edition – CounterPunch.org
There were over 177,000 new cases reported in the U.S. on Friday.
Enough about Donald Trump: The opportunity to plan beyond him is among the most important privileges the Democratic Party and the country won last week. Unless Democrats sweep the Georgia runoffs in January, President-elect Joe Biden will take office with a divided Congress and beset by existential crises on all sides. Having won a general election dominated almost entirely by matters of character and general competence, Biden is substantively short of where he ought to be on the issues that defined the Democratic primary and are likely to define the next decade or more of American life.
Source: The Left Must Hit the Streets Again—Right Now | Portside
Donald Trump is the grotesque embodiment of market principles. In climbing back from his disastrous four years, one of our aims must be to wrest back democracy from the market.
Source: Donald Trump Was a Monster Forged by the American Free Market
