Despite cutbacks, ExxonMobil continues to fund climate science denial
ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science.
Surviving today’s toxic brew of doomsday moralism, criminality and derangement
You don’t have to be an English major to appreciate that style reveals as much as content when assessing persona, character and...
“Libs of TikTok” and the right’s war on public education
This seems like the ultimate end game of all these attacks on public education.
The American Fascist
Viewing Donald Trump in light of the fascists of the first half of the twentieth century helps explain what Trump is doing and how he is succeeding.
Spiffed-up & Combed-over, Trump’s Breakthrough — as Rich White Trash— Lets a Billionaire Hug...
Thus Trump campaigns like a redneck, white trash billionaire, even though that term defies logic, history and reason. But then his benighted audience, with nods to white supremacy, isn’t expert at logic, history or reason. Not getting truly educated, thus not able to keep themselves informed, elevates emotion over thinking, thus making them vulnerable to a hustler who does PT Barnum proud.
Inside China-focused Congressional hearings, panic, paranoia, and hypocrisy reign
China is not a threat because it’s threatening our security—China is a threat because it’s successful.
‘Fake news’ in America: Homegrown, and far from new
The corporate state created this monstrous propaganda machine and bequeathed it to Trump.
The hostile transition of power
It is impossible to govern the country in this style, as we see already in Trump’s failure to fill so many vital positions that he was forced to ask Obama appointees to remain in place.
Regulation repeals show ‘the swamp’ is rising
Never mind what Trump and the Republicans in Congress say, this is what they do.
Bombing Iran is part of the USA’s repetition compulsion for war war war
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”









