Ever since members of the U.K. Labour Party in September elected Jeremy Corbyn as party leader by a landslide, British political and media elites have acted…
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As a world community we have agreed that everyone has a right to a home, (article 25 of the UNDHR makes this clear), however, like…
Capitalism and Democracy: A Plausible Coexistence? The answer to the above proposition, generally, would be a resounding “Yes!” But ask Tariq Ali, renowned political commentator,…
After 25,000 people asked, Senator Bernie Sanders added a few words to his presidential campaign website about the 96% of humanity he'd been ignoring. He did not, as his…
The landslide victory of left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn for Labor Party leader in the United Kingdom has many establishment types bent out of shape. The…
Senator Bernie Sanders taped a PBS show at the University of Virginia on Monday. I had corresponded with the host Doug Blackmon beforehand, and offered…
The ultimate triumph of the political right in the 1980s was that its actions eventually forced the left to sell its soul for power – but…
Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy,…
The British Labour Party no longer represents the working class. Under UK prime minister Tony Blair, the Labour Party became a vassal of the One…
Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation received money from a financial fraudster linked with illegal Israeli settlements and an American Islamophobic network. Tony Blair is again in the…
Labour leadership frontrunner Corbyn has the advantage over many of his detractors in that he always opposed the Iraq war, and the War on Terror Longtime…
*This is an edited version of my latest Counterpunch Magazine column.* We are living in a world gone through the looking glass when the most…