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2 weeks ago | 
juancole.com | Arnold R. Isaacs |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting target list? Was it just a political calculation that foreign aid is a safe target because it’s unpopular with so many Americans and cutting those funds will only hurt foreigners, not U.S. voters? Or was Musk motivated by some other grudge we haven’t even heard about?
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Engelhardt |Rebecca Gordon |Arnold R. Isaacs |Kim Petersen
Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances. Two times as the president of these increasingly disunited states of America?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rebecca Gordon |Arnold R. Isaacs |Kim Petersen |Romi Mahajan
“I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She’d turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. “Of course, they hate immigrants, too,” she added, “and I’m both.”That morning of November 6th, I sat down with her and four other women to face the election results.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Arnold R. Isaacs
During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump’s specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day).
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Arnold R. Isaacs |Kim Petersen |Romi Mahajan |Liz Theoharis
During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump’s specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day).
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Gary M. Feinman |Arnold R. Isaacs |Bharat Dogra
OrientationSituating my articleOften the rise of China and the Middle East appears to many Westerners as something recent, maybe 30 years old. Before that? Is Western dominance beginning with the Greeks and Romans – right? Wrong, not even close! The rise of the East and the South has roughly a 1,300 year history of dominance from 500 CE to 1800 CE. What is happening in the East today is no “Eurasian Miracle”.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Arnold R. Isaacs |Rob Maurer
During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump’s specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day).
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
tomdispatch.com | Arnold R. Isaacs
Countering Trump's Falsehoods Is More Urgent Than EverDuring this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump’s specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day).
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Arnold R. Isaacs |Binoy Kampmark |Countercurrents Collective
The USA in the only country in the world where there are more firearms than people. 46% of all households have a firearm. This is the average. In some places this can be over 60%. About 48,000 people die in gun-violence in a year, the majority of this being suicide cases. When seen in the context of comparable rich countries, the US gun homicide rate is about 25 times higher while gun suicide rate is about 10 times higher.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Arnold R. Isaacs
She’s one of far too many politicians of this moment who think and speak with no regard for truth or reasonable argument. Ad PolicyThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. “Say her name!” Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden’s State of the Union Address.
