Stephen Cohen Has Died. Remember His Urgent Warnings Against The New Cold War
Editor’s Note: If the article below by Caitlin Johnstone, about the growing risk of nuclear war, frightens you … good. It should. Now that the Russiagate “psyop” has been widely debunked (as Matt Taibbi points out, by journalists such as Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracey, Aaron Mate, Rania Khalek, Max Blumenthal “and others”) Professor Stephen…
Less than 7 Weeks to Save our Democracy from a Grotesque, Bigoted, illiterate Game Show Host and Real Estate Grifter
By DAVID FARIS Originally published in Informed Comment on 09/08/2020 Reprinted with permission of the author, and of the publisher, Juan Cole (Special to Informed Comment) – In 2016, thanks largely to the antiquated, nonsensical design of its creaky electoral system, the U.S. presidency was awarded to a candidate who lost the election…
Who formally declares the winner of the U.S. presidential election?
By Amy Dacey, American University With the U.S. presidential election rapidly approaching at a time of extraordinary political and social disruption, the possibility of an unclear or contested result is coming under scrutiny. Unlike many other countries, where the president or prime minister is chosen by direct popular vote, in the U.S., a candidate…