Americans' Political "Psychotic Break"

[Share with Facebook] [Share with Twitter] [Share with LinkedIn] [More Share Options] [Like This] [The Fearless Voice of the American Left Since 1993] CounterPunch NEWS UPDATE 1-3-2016 [Donate][Today] [Americans' Political "Psychotic Break"] Bruce E. Levine says American politics has been stripped of false realities. [Slow Strangulation of U of Virginia] Kenneth Surin on Virginia politicians and the slow strangulation of its famous university. [Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...] Michael Albert explains what really caused the Trump presidency. [The Land of Smiling Children] M.G. Piety explains why Ciccariello-Maher might have the wrong approach. [Let's Make a Deal] Paul Cantor on Trump and the Monty Hall problem. [God Hates Mexicans] Charles Pierson says people will believe anything if it fits their vanity. [Running From the Law, Netanyahu-Style] Lawrence Davidson on why Netanyahu hates the UN. [View all of CounterPunch's Recent Articles] Media of the Day [A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity] Quote of the Day Gerrard Winstanley: "I am assured that if it be rightly searched into, the inward bondages of the minde, as covetousness, pride, hypocrisie, envy, sorrow, fears, desperation, and madness are all occasioned by the outward bondage that one sort of people lay upon another." [Yvette Carnell and Pascal Robert on] [CounterPunch Radio!] This week CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser sits down with Yvette Carnell and Pascal Robert to discuss the failures of the Obama presidency. [Listen Today!] [Exclusively in the New Print Issue of CounterPunch] [Trump and The Failure of Identity Politics] Yvette Carnell explores the failure of identity politics; Mike Whitney dissects Trump's economic policy, which looks like the same old trickledown with a few troubling wrinkles; Chris Floyd charts the rise of Trump on the continuum of American politics; Jeffrey St. Clair dissects the Democrats' abandonment of the working class; Anthony DiMaggio reports on the street protests against Trump and Alena Wolflink examines how Trump's campaign hit all the right nerves. Plus: Jason Hirthler on whitewashing the crimes of empire; Joshua Frank on climate change and the future of the grizzly; Seth Sandronsky and Dan Berman on the struggle for workplace safety; Ruth Fowler on police violence and gentrification; Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark on the refugee crisis; Robert Hunziker on spiking radiation levels in the Pacific Ocean and much more. [Subscribe Today!] [SIGN UP for the email version of CounterPunch magazine and save 37%] What is a subscription? CounterPunch Magazine has exclusive articles for subscribers only, plus special features you can't find on our website. As an email subscriber you get discounts on books and everything else in the CounterPunch store. [Subscribe] STAY CONNECTED WITH COUNTERPUNCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA [Like us on Facebook] [Follow us on Twitter] CounterPunch, P.O. Box 228, Petrolia, CA 95558 [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}] [Forward this email] | [Update Profile] | [About our service provider] Sent by [counterpunch@counterpunch.org] in collaboration with [Constant Contact] [Try it free today]