Category Archives: Elections & Voting

Richard C. Cook thinks that Bernie Sanders could become the next president. Continue reading →

Hillary Clinton is proving to be the “Teflon candidate.” In her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, she has escaped damage from major scandals, any one of which would destroy a politician. Hillary has accepted massive bribes in the form of speaking fees from financial organizations and corporations. She is under investigation for misuse of classified data, an offense for which a number of whistleblowers are in prison. Hillary has survived the bombing of Libya, her creation of a failed Libyan state that is today a major source of terrorist jihadists, and the Benghazi controversy. She has survived charges that as secretary of state she arranged favors for foreign interests in exchange for donations to the Clintons’ foundation. And, of course, there is a long list of previous scandals: Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate. Diana Johnstone’s book, Queen of Chaos, describes Hillary Clinton as “the top salesperson for the ruling oligarchy.” Continue reading →

Barack Obama’s last nine months in office will provide plenty of opportunity for him to spoon feed his scribes in the corporate media. Under the pretense of writing history, they will serve as one collective pro-Obama mouthpiece between now and January 20, 2017. The process is a delicate one however. The president will also have to explain those policies that did not produce the outcomes he wanted. Such is the case with any discussion of his role in destroying Libya. Continue reading →

From inception, America was never beautiful or democratic. Rich and powerful interests run things exclusively for their own benefit, ordinary people entirely shut out. Continue reading →

The Democratic party is teetering on the brink. The green/peace/social justice community needs a Plan C. The Republicans have one. The Democrats don’t. The impacts could be catastrophic. Continue reading →

Hillary Clinton is a wonderful leader, so some memes tell us on Facebook and some pundits tell us in mainstream media. Continue reading →

Perhaps the most important result so far of the Bernie Sanders insurgency is how starkly it has exposed the truly totalitarian nature of the 21st century American state. Continue reading →

Who, one might ask, better to understand, advocate, and take action on US interests around the world than the former secretary of state? Doesn’t Ms. Clinton’s background as past head of the State Department for Barack Obama round out her other training in domestic affairs as the perfect US Head of State, better described in our hawkish-lexicon as commander-in-chief? Isn’t that the way our forefathers did see the proper, and noble, political training demanded from anyone who aspires to become president of this nation, the United States of America? Continue reading →

The mantra for some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters is that they will vote for her because, “she gets things done.” Although I have to admit that having someone in the White House that gets things done is a plus but, one must ask, what does she get done and who does it benefit? Continue reading →

Interesting that it was in 1931 that the infant cereal Pablum was introduced to U.S. families. A few years earlier, Adolf Hitler made the below comments, (quoted in the fine book by Richard Evans, ‘The Coming of the Third Reich.’ Continue reading →

No presidential candidate should be taken seriously unless he or she addresses the below basic concerns. Continue reading →

Disturbing signs of the time-tested “Strip and Flip” strategy for stealing elections have already surfaced in 2016. Will they ultimately decide the outcome, as they have in too many recent elections? Continue reading →

He is blunt, he is insulting, he is a racist, and he is rich. Yet, he is the leading Republican candidate for the office of President of the United States. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he is no other than Donald Trump. Continue reading →

Last week, our suggestion that Hillary Clinton call for the resignations of her pals Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz got a big response. But a few people misunderstood what we were saying. Continue reading →

In the midst of one of the wildest presidential races in the history of United States, the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has created yet another wrinkle in the campaign’s political fabric. With the Republican leadership delaying consideration of President Obama’s nomination of Merrick B. Garland until next year, a look at some earlier elections and court nominations might be instructive. Continue reading →

Indications are that the federal probe investigating the possible mishandling of classified materials on Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she served as secretary of state is winding down. And so far, neither the FBI nor the prosecutorial staff at the Justice Department has come up with information that point to Hillary or her aides knowingly, or negligently, discussing classified secrets over her non-secure email system . . . contrary to the hopes and “political prayers” of every soul in the Republican Party. Continue reading →

There are two Democrats whose resignation from office right now would do their party and country a service. Continue reading →

GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump announced the names of some of his foreign policy advisers. Two names stand out as particularly egregious selections: Walid Phares, the “token Arab” for a number of pro-Israeli think tanks and policy laundries in Washington and Joseph Schmitz, the Pentagon’s chief cover-up artist as inspector general. Continue reading →

America is engaged in another of its sprawling and costly national election campaigns. A few of the events, such as the New Hampshire primary or the Iowa Caucus, I’m sure have participants seeing themselves as Thomas Jefferson’s sturdy yeomen doing their civic duty. But such humble and misty-eyed tableaux can be deceiving for the big picture is quite disturbing, including, as it does, billions of dollars spent and a lot of noise generated about things which will not change in any outcome. Continue reading →

Here in the waning days of American empire, we can now watch the left and right engage in actual physical clashes on TV—a phenomenon unseen in the US in decades, at least in presidential contests. The alarming resemblance of current events in the US to the last days of the Weimar Republic in Germany—just before Adolph Hitler rose to power, when brown-shirt fascists fought leftist activists in the streets—is disturbingly evident. Continue reading →

What’s the easiest way to get everyone’s attention? Just say Donald Trump. All ears will perk up, people you don’t know might even join your conversation. Continue reading →

From their “Dark Money” bagman Karl Rove to their philosophical guru David Brooks, the GOP elites are in a tizzy over saving the Republican Party from Donald Trump and the other intruders, extremists and crackpots who have fallen in behind Trump as if he were the Pied Piper of Hamelin. But who will save the party from the elites? Continue reading →

Regardless of the outcome of the American presidential primaries, or even the result of the general elections next November, a frightening phenomenon is under way. The US has decidedly moved to the Right, in fact the Ultra-Right; class differences are more pronounced than ever before, thanks to decades of neoliberal policies, the kind of capitalism that has concentrated the wealth in even fewer hands; racism is on the rise and the unmistakable signs of fascism are evident whenever Donald Trump holds a campaign rally. Continue reading →

Do this exercise for a minute: Take all the money you have on you and lay it on a table. Then count it. Then give half of it to your spouse or partner and say, “Spend it for a good cause.” Now, let a little time go by and then ask that person how they spent it, your personal money. Do you think you might just care how and what they spent it on? Of course you would. Most of us would care about how our hard earned money was spent. Continue reading →

Against my better judgment, I decided to watch both the Democratic and Republican presidential debates this year. Everyone running for the office of president made promises. Continue reading →

When Friz Freling and Warner Bros. decided to produce Looney Tunes little did they know how relevant to reality the production would be in 2016. The company rose to fame as they introduced stars such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn. Continue reading →

Donald Trump has transitioned from being a joke to a nightmare. His popularity isn’t in doubt. His growing following is enslaved by his winning “I’ll make America great again” personality. For them his racist insults are like honey. They’ve no problem at all with his ridiculing of the disabled, his failure to disavow the backing of the Ku Klux Klan, his pledge to close the door to Muslims and to reintroduce torture. And when he orders hecklers at his rallies to get out with the words “I’d like to punch him in the face,” they are often roughed-up by the glassy-eyed faithful. Continue reading →

“We the people” have been utterly and completely betrayed. Continue reading →

I keep reading stuff in British papers about what America’s Left must do in an election where Donald Trump “has thrown caution to the wind.” Each time I read anything along that line, invariably, I ask myself, “What Left are they talking about?” As perhaps few in Europe understand, there is no Left in the United States. Continue reading →

It’s Monday night at Dempsey’s, a perennial Democratic Party meet-up spot in downtown Columbus. The Ohio presidential primary is five weeks away. Powerful members of the Franklin County Democratic Central Committee are meeting to plot strategy against an unprecedented grassroots attack upon the party’s ward leaders. The ward leaders are the ones responsible for the official party candidate endorsements. Continue reading →