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3 weeks ago | 
juancole.com | Clarence Lusane |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump’s most controversial rally occurred at New York’s Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico — and by implication Puerto Ricans — as garbage. He and the Trump campaign were rightfully pilloried and called out for his disgusting bigotry. Little notice was given, however, to another noxious racist moment at the same event.
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2 months ago | 
thenation.com | D.D. Guttenplan |Clarence Lusane |Chris Lehmann |Gregg Gonsalves
Editorial In the malignity of his intent and the scale of his graft, the second term is significantly worse. But it’s also his last.
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2 months ago | 
thenation.com | Clarence Lusane |Chris Lehmann
Editorial / February 7, 2025 The White Nationalist in Chief’s Return to PowerAt this moment, Trump is the white nationalist in chief. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D,C., on Jan.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kim Scipes |Satya Sagar |Clarence Lusane
As the 2024 presidential “too close to call “election draws to a close, crews across the city have been busy erecting steel fencing and barricades along with plywood walls to thwart damage from any social unrest that may result from the election’s outcome.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Scipes |Satya Sagar |Phil Pasquini |Clarence Lusane
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the articleMichael Albert has argued at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/answering-critics/, cogently in my opinion, that people who live in swing states and have yet to vote should vote for Kamala Harris by November 5th; I agree with this. But I’d approach it a little differently than him.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Satya Sagar |HABIB SIDDIQUI |Clarence Lusane |Henry A. Giroux
Bangladesh Hindus participate in a rally demanding that an interim government withdraw all cases against their leaders and protect them from attacks and harassment, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Nov. 1, 2024. (Chittagong, famous during India’s freedom struggle, was renamed Chattogram, the old name.) An ultimatum was issued :Settle by Monday (Nov 5), or else…Notably all this is timed with US pools, where Indian-Hindu voters matter.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Satya Sagar |Phil Pasquini |HABIB SIDDIQUI |Clarence Lusane
“How can the US population even consider making Donald Trump its President, and that too for a second time?”It’s a question on the lips and minds of millions around the globe. For them, Trump is a corrupt, authoritarian, misogynist, racist, fascist serial molester – all instant disqualifications for any candidate running for public office anywhere on Planet Earth. Choosing someone as unscrupulous as him would make a mockery of the entire exercise of elections in a democracy.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Clarence Lusane |Medea Benjamin |Philip Farruggio
Only days before one of the most pivotal presidential elections in US history takes place, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) released its national poll, “Final CAIR 2024 Election Poll of American Muslim Voters,” which was conducted on October 30-31. The results illustrate how this important block of voters will be pivotal in deciding the winner in Tuesday’s election.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Habib Siddiqui |Clarence Lusane |Henry A. Giroux |Tom Engelhardt
by Abdul A. Bhuiyan and Habib SiddiquiIn times of war, truth is often the first casualty. The US elections are increasingly becoming the battle grounds where truth is sacrificed at the altar of falsehood for political expediency. As if we have not seen enough of such falsifications, the battleground has been expanded to the other side of our planet seemingly to curry favor from a target group of voters. Consider, for instance, the claims of the US presidential candidate Donald J.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Clarence Lusane
Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation’s history. Given a life of unremitting racial animus, under no circumstances should he receive a single vote from the Black community or other communities of color. After all, he’s never moderated his white nationalist sentiments and count on this: he never will. Yet, somehow, he has indeed managed to win support from a sliver of the Black community.
