Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the American people. Trump was provided a plurality mandate — enough of a match for him to burn America down. The electorate affirmed that the worst human being to hold the presidency deserves […]
The Super-Rich have a long history of Backing Fascism and Buying the White House: It is Happening Again
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Hopping around the rally stage like a drunken monkey, Elon Musk — the world’s most awkward man — demonstrated his subservience to the alpha ape Trump by repeatedly baring his bloated, bone-white belly. Several weeks ago, Musk made a fawning, cringe-worthy spectacle of himself as the primate Cult Leader watched […]
American Women vs. Maga Men: The 2024 Election is a Gender Battle where Abortion Rights are the Flashpoint
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – American women reject Trump. From his criminalizing of abortion to the ridiculing of unmarried women, from his predatory sexual harassment to racist attacks on immigrants, Trump has been very successful at repulsing female voters. Women favor Kamala Harris 58-37 in a recent NBC poll, while men prefer Trump […]
The French showed us how to Fight SCOTUS’s Immunization of Trump for 2nd-Term Despotism
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The MAGA Supreme Court created a lawless presidency with their opinion on Trump immunity last week. In doing so, it obliterated a basic principle of American constitutional government: “No one is above the law.” Enabling abuses of power, the 6-3 decision on Trump v. United States gives Trump such vast immunity […]
Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann Göring invited two dozen of Germany’s wealthiest and most influential bankers and industrialists to his home to solicit funds for the upcoming election, according to historian David de Jong in […]
This Generation’s Vietnam: Students are Protesting Israeli Genocide, meeting Media and Political Vilification
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pitching Pro-Palestine protest encampments on their campuses, students risk their futures and physical safety by putting their bodies on the line, demonstrating against their Universities fueling the Israeli war machine. Administrators have responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests. These brave anti-genocide […]
The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “The colonized took up arms not only because they were dying of hunger and witnessing the disintegration of their society,” wrote Frantz Fanon in his incendiary book The Wretched of the Earth. “But also because the colonist treated them like animals and considered them brutes. As soon as […]
America’s Theater of the Absurd Election: Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 1968, the Youth International Party nominated a pig named Pigasus for president; in 2024, the Republican Party will likely nominate a Traitor named Trump for president, a dumber and more corrupt candidate than Pigasus. The Youth International Party — the anarchic, counter-culture Yippies — nominated the pig […]
The Real Dr. Strangelove: Kissinger’s Legacy of Mass Murder, Contempt for Human Rights, and Military Aggression
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Amid media whitewashing of Henry Kissinger’s atrocities after his death at 100, we must not lose sight of who he really was. The genocidal policies that Kissinger enacted and enabled resulted in an estimated death toll of between three and four million, according to historian Greg Grandin, author […]
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