Election Day at Last, Now What?
With a sigh of relief for many and more than an ounce of anxiety, election day has finally arrived. For many Americans the usual long dragged-out presidential campaign has evoked…
US Election 2024
November 4, 2024: The Day Before
On October 23, Nancy Pelosi came to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA (my old hometown) and spoke at the First Parish Church. Her talk was organized by The Harvard Book…
The Hardening of Washington for the Election, Aftermath and Beyond
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…
In Response to Michael Albert’s “Answering Critics” of November 2nd
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article Michael 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…
Pump, Dump and Donald Trump
"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…
Poll of Muslim-American Voters Presidential Preferences Released
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…
The Black-Lives-(Don’t)-Matter President
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…
A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu…
UNComfortably Numb!
Sailing back listening to Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb.The mood of melancholia is mixed with a musical yearning for something seemingly out of my reach. As the song ends I…
Virtuous, Smug and Venal: British Electoral Interference in the US
The British cannot help themselves. They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional fit of absentmindedness and remain haughty for having done…
Pennsylvania’s Undecideds
If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And…
335,500 Gaza Dead Estimate: Voting For Kid-Killing Kamala (KKK) Harris Means Complicity in Genocide
The US presidential election is only a dozen days away and the Biden/Harris complicity in the mass murder of Gazans by Jewish Israelis should be the key issue for decent…
Israel’s War of Genocide and the Way American Voters Perceive It
On October 8, 2023, Israel invaded Gaza Strip in retaliation to Palestinian Hamas's attack on occupied lands the day before. Israelis have since brutally massacred Palestinians and, more recently, the…
The Choice this Election is between Corporate and Oligarchic Power
There is a civil war within capitalism. Kamala Harris is the face of corporate power. Donald Trump is the mascot of the oligarchs. Either way, we lose. The choice in…
Does Reducing Internal Distress Get Adequate and Proper Place in USA Elections
For any society to be able to reduce its internal distress significantly the first step is to come face to face honestly and sincerely with the level and causes of…
US Elections:Is Aggression Based on Quest for Dominance Likely to Continue Regardless of Who Wins?
The biggest concern of the world regarding US elections is whether these can lead to the creation of a government with a significantly higher commitment to world peace. At the…
A Moral Imperative for the 2024 US Elections
Will Americans Vote for Genocide? Is it acceptable for Israel to wipe Palestine and Palestinians off the map? On 5 November 2024, Americans have an opportunity to signal whether genocide…
US Elections 2024: Immigrant Muslims in America are in a limbo
American essayist and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Marilynne Robinson wrote in an essay titled ‘Survival of cultural and religious tolerance’ –“Since religion is central to most identities within the larger…
Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out
Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” - intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping…
The Lesser of Two Evils: How the Pope’s Election Guidance Ignores Third-Party Candidates
Pope Francis is known to believers and to non-believers alike as a man who is willing to speak his mind on issues regarding morals and ethics regardless of the backlash.…
Collateral Political Damage
Anyone remember the late ' Not so great' Donald Rumsfeld explaining about killing innocent civilians in our phony wars as ' Collateral Damage'? Then fast forward to today's election cycle…
Trumptopia and Beyond-Is Reality the Biggest Fiction of All Today?
Yes, long ago, I dreamt of being a novelist. Two ancient manuscripts packed away in a distant corner of my closet attest to that (ir)reality, as does one novel focused…
Imperialists for Trump: Neoconservatism is Still Alive and Well in the GOP
With the rise of Donald Trump in the Republican Party, many on both sides of the aisle have stated that the rise of 'America First' sentiments necessarily signals that the…
The Candidate from Hell
Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he’s threatening to take the United States and the world to — no place else! — hell and…
America’s Life-or-Death Election
Global warming’s impact on the planet is surprising climate scientists with its vigor and tenacity and distinct overt danger, climbing the proverbial wall of worry much faster than anybody dreamed…
Tim Walz For President
Vice President Kamala Harris shocked the world when she picked progressive firebrand Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota to be her running mate in the 2024 Presidential election. Conventional political wisdom…
Tim Walz for Veep: Barely Noticed or Noticeable
While the Kamala Harris coronation for Democratic presidential nomination continues in its safely shielded path, her sacred status among party members growing with each day, the decision to select Governor…
AIPAC’s Influence Targets American Democracy
Under the watchful eye of a Capitol policeman, a group of human rights activist from Code Pink and CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) held a teach-in at the Rayburn House…
AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush’s Race–and Our Elections
Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the “Squad” and has been a powerful voice in Congress for poor people, women’s…
Political Pretence: The Democrats and the Palestinians
The fact that the Democrats currently occupy the White House has done little to ruffle the equation of blood and gore in the Middle East, notably regarding the fate of…
Progressives Beware: Shapiro Is Not the VP America Needs
Vice-President Kamala Harris, the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States, has made efforts in recent weeks to court the progressive wing of the Democratic party…
Amidst Muddy Political Waters, ‘Kamala’ is all set to Bloom in November
Back in 2020 when Kamala Harris ended her presidential bid before the primaries even began, many started writing her political obituary. Even after Biden picked her as his running mate,…
The Ardent Pipe Dreams of American Voters
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of…
Kamala Harris: Papier-mâché Coronation
How aristocratic it all sounds, if only in a playground, papier-mâché sense. The language of the estates, the “crowning,” the “coronation,” words repurposed for republican politics, is much in evidence…
Kamala is a Kapitalist
“She’s a capitalist at heart — she wants businesses to do well,” said Yasmin Nelson, a former senior Harris adviser.1 This is what we must keep in mind as millions…
R I S E
I wonder if anyone on the right has the guts to stand up and defend the republic. “Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it…
The view from Gaza on US elections
In last month’s US presidential debate – or “Who Supports Israel’s Genocide More” – Donald Trump criticized sitting president Joe Biden, “thusly:” “He’s become like a Palestinian, but they don’t like him…
Project 2025:A New Pax Romana
by Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000 years ago for the extravagant entertainment the Roman Empire used to distract…
An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
[Prefatory Note: An earlier version of thiss Open Letter to Kamala Harris was published by CounterPunch on July 23, 2024; so many developments have occurred in recent days as to make…
Puppet Realisations: Biden Stands Aside
Having been endorsed as the only viable candidate to battle Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Joe Biden was subsequently browbeaten and harried into leaving the way open for…
Are you gloating at the American political “turbulence” or ashamed?
A London reporter writes in WSJ that the assassination attempt on Trump, coming after Biden’s “stumbles” during the recent presidential debate, has pushed the superpower to enter “an unusually turbulent…
Stumble and stammer are far from being the most important problems of USA leadership
In a world where television performance of leaders appears to have become even more important in election time than their real performance, a stumbling or stammering candidate running for the…
Biden and Trump Battle over a Rattle
“Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.”– Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass Once you understand that profound poem,…
Is Cuba Actually Influencing 2024 Elections in Florida?
The Miami Herald has flung all concern for journalistic standards to the wind in a fear-mongering piece speculating that Cuba will influence 2024 elections in Florida. The evidence? McClatchy correspondent…
A few chilling post-election scenarios
Consider the consequences of a Biden victory in November 2024. Trump will almost certainly deny the victory, and the fact that his loyalists are armed to the teeth and number…
Elections Sans Electoral Alternatives and Democratic Stagnation in France, UK and USA
Free and fair elections are considered to be the festivals of democracy, where the electorates have the opportunity to choose their leaders from a pool of alternative candidates listed on…
The System of Elections in the USA and Political Parties
Types of elections In the USA, elections are organized on a regular basis for the President, both houses of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate), and state and…
Cynicism Unlimited: Democrats Call For Four More Years (of Elderly Abuse)
"If it weren't for the Democratic Party, the Republican Party would fold. They always keep us in the game. They're able to throw us a lifeline." -----Senator Lindsey Graham* The…
Hunted Biden: The First Presidential Debate Disaster
It was cruel. Sinister cruel. While Donald Trump was always going to relish the chance to be not only economical with the truth but simply inventive about it, Joe Biden,…
Debate debacle triggers panic in Democratic Party
Thursday night’s debate between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican ex-President Donald Trump was a totally degraded spectacle. One candidate could barely finish a sentence, while reiterating his commitment to…
Presidential Debate Questions for a Sweltering World
What would a realistic presidential debate look like in a nation where 100 million Americans recently sweltered under a massive heat dome while their nation led the world in oil…
The Threats to Election 2024
by Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, can they effectively address mounting threats — of…
Lock Them BOTH Up!
During the 2016 election Trump fanatics chanted “Lock her up,” referring to Hillary Clinton. The tables have now turned. Trump is a convicted criminal and Biden violates international law. In…
Action, Reaction
The Physics guys know it best that for ' Every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. Well, I guess those who lead us don't know a rat's ass…
Old Man World: Leftovers of the American Century
Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than Joe Biden and almost two years older than…
Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America Will be Christian Fascism
The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed. Joe Biden…
How to Blow an Election
Boy oh boy, the Neo Con Democratic Party sure knows how to dismantle things. Think of this: They had the right wing Republicans on their heels with the Dobbs decision…
When the Cookie Crumbled: The Ron DeSantis Campaign Ends
So much for that. Much had been promised by Florida Governor Ron De Santis to derail Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House. But the attempt to wrest…
Trump 2.0
Count on one thing: Donald Trump, who seems to gain Republican support with every new indictment, is not going away. He’s managed to capitalize on his 2020 election loss, using his failed insurrection,…
Who Cares? I Got My Gadget Here!
You got a government that is run by a Two Party con job. You have one side that borders on outright fascism, if not a return to Germany circa 1932.…
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