Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…
By Joshua Scheer First off, happy New Year. Late last night, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in deep in the bowels of a New York City subway station. Then this morning,…
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report Transcript of my talk: For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Cornel…
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given…
By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much…
By Edward Hunt / CounterPunch The anti-socialism resolution passed by the House of Representatives earlier this month sent a chilling message not only to socialists in the United States but…
