Howie Klein2 days ago12 minSecond Thoughts… And The Nature Of FascismThinkin' Out Loud On Independence Day Writing a post called “Second Thoughts” came to me yesterday after I published a typically...
Howie Klein2 days ago5 minIt's Like The Ghost Of Roger Taney Has Come Back And Infected The Supreme CourtTaney Was One Of The Sparks That Lit The Civil War Conflagration On State of the Union yesterday, Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told the CNN...
Howie Klein4 days ago6 minIs GOP Arizona Senate Candidate Blake Masters A Nazi, A Neo-Nazi Or Just A Garden Variety Fascist?You Decide German-born, South African-raised neo-Nazi billionaire Peter Thiel doesn’t hide the fact that he’s openly gay. The persistent...
Howie KleinJun 283 minToday’s GOP Can’t Be Trusted With A Role In Governance, Any More Than The KKK CouldAs we wait for former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson to further expose the fascist plot to overthrow the government— and make it...
Nigel BestJun 263 minCry, Freedom!-by Nigel Best “All gonna feel the backlash of puritanical power, kicking us down when we’re on the ground is gonna be their finest...
Nigel BestJun 183 minThe Terror Within-by Nigel Best Hearing his henchmen turn on him, ridicule him, and mock him during these televised hearings from Washington must really...
Howie KleinJun 96 minProgressives May Have The Solutions, But The Corporate Democratic Party? Don't Make Me Laugh"You really can’t win an election with a bumper sticker that says: 'Well, we can’t do much, but the other side is worse.'" -Bernie...
Howie KleinJun 79 minI Lived In Amsterdam For 4 Years During The Nixon Era-- I'm Thinking Of Moving BackRight at the time that the congressional Democratic Party is falling apart and turning away from the last shreds of its progressive...
Howie KleinMay 236 minWill Putin Be Tried For War Crimes? Sure-- The Same Day As Kissinger, Bush And BlairMadi Kapparov identifies himself as a PhD student at the London Business School. This morning, he translated a chat on video by one of...
Howie KleinMay 205 minCPAC Goes All In On FascismFascistpalooza Budapest-- aka, CPAC 2022 began yesterday with a keynote speech by Hungary's fascist hetman Viktor Orbán. Reuters covered...
Howie KleinMay 194 minIdaho Went Nazi On Tuesday-- But The Mainstream Media Is Ignoring ItMany Americans have all but given up on Idaho. At this point, the state seems more likely to secede than Mississippi or Alabama do....
Howie KleinMay 14 minAsger Jorn-- A Fascist Group Vandalized One Of His Most Iconic Paintings: Culture WarBernie and I grew up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood and went to the same elementary and high schools, albeit a few years apart. The...
Howie KleinApr 1610 minThe End Of The World As We Know It-- I Don't Feel FineThe Most Pessimistic Post On This Blog Ever I don't usually point to Maureen Dowd's columns as worth reading, let alone important....
Howie KleinApr 153 minThe GOP Is Racist & Xenophobic, But Essentially... Not PopulistThe GOP is primarily appealing to the white working class, while making inroads into the Hispanic and Black middle class. But, in the...
Howie KleinApr 1114 minThis Is No Game: Putin Has To Be StoppedI didn't read Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Did you? I loved his book On Tyranny. How did I miss this! My friend Melody turned me onto it...
Howie KleinMar 215 minWe Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thang-- But How Much Of It Is Kremlin Propaganda?Kyiv is being shelled, bombed, pounded, choked... and yesterday Carlotta Gall reported that nearly half the population has fled, but that...
Howie KleinFeb 269 minAre We All Ukrainians Yet?When the U.S. offered to rescue Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his response was "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a...
Howie KleinJan 263 minWhat Tribe You In, Man?I hope you read Professor Darren Sherkat's brilliant explanation yesterday about how we know Trump voters tend towards the moron end of...
Howie KleinJan 177 minDoes A Fascist Takeover Of Our Country Seem Remote? It Isn't!Writing at Crooks & Liars this morning, Kerry Eleveld noted that Biden-- historically a Joe Manchin kind of senator who has always run...
Howie KleinJan 144 minStupidest Column Of The Week Award Goes To... Thomas Friedman AgainThank you Liz Cheney, for standing up against fascism. The rest of your career-- from soup to nuts (and that is mostly nuts)-- is every...