Eve Ottenberg

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Eve Ottenberg

Neither the red wave nor the blue one materialised in the latest election, which removes some of the impetus for the coming congressional Sinophobic rampage. Some, not all. The relatively good results for Biden mean that for the moment he no longer needs the Beijing boogeyman and could afford to be gracious toward Chinas leader, Xi Jinping at the G20 summit. But the GOP won by enough last week to say that so did Sinophobia.

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Eve Ottenberg

“The U.S. represents 4% of the worlds population, 25% of global covid deaths, 23% of covid cases and 35% of all Monkeypox cases….The U.S. is a public health fiasco. The Centres for Disease Control tells us exposure no longer requires quarantine, and for the public generally, everyones so done with masks. Thats the state of the disease for us proles do nothing to prevent catching it, while hoping, irrationally, that you wont. Things are quite different at higher media and political altitudes.

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Eve Ottenberg

For a good while one could blame Trump for the prosecutorial monstrosity perpetrated on journalist Julian Assange. But now its time for Trump to move over. The single worst assault on the first amendment and a free press in recent centuries is no longer solely his. Biden owns it. Biden could end this state persecution of a journalist today, if he felt like it. A persecution that a U.N. expert has called torture. A persecution that could easily lead to Assanges death. But maybe thats the point.

4 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Eve Ottenberg

Insults, slurs, nasty comments and contempt for Social Security sprout up everywhere these days in Washington. Although Trump himself insists he will protect the program, his underlings sure hate it, and by extension, the nearly 70 million elders who rely on it; and “rely” is an understatement – for many it’s their sole lifeline. These people voted for Trump in their multitudes.

2 months ago | counterpunch.org | Eve Ottenberg

Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly unprovoked 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and one our rulers would do well not to forget – a war with millions of displaced Iraqis, hundreds of thousands of dead ones, tens of thousands of American soldiers KIA, a refugee crisis in Europe, and all for what? For nothing, that’s what.