Nader: Expected Countervailing Forces to Trumpism are Failing

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 Bill Barr's Useful Idiot: Donald J. Trump; plus an Appendix on the Nature of The State
By Steven Jonas
Trump is often described as Putin's "Useful Idiot." But in the context of U.S. politics, governance, and the potential for the imposition of a fascist state in the U.S. following the upcoming election, he is really Bill Barr's useful idiot. This column explains why.
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Expected Countervailing Forces to Trumpism are Failing
By Ralph Nader
Let's give dangerous, dictatorial, corporatist, lawless, unstable, Donald Trump his due. He has shown us just how weak our various countervailing institutions and constitutional standards are in checking the excesses of the most impeachable President in American history.
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 Tucker Carlson and the Cult of the Court
By Thomas Knapp
The Court has a pretty big bailiwick, covering various kinds of litigation that turns on applications of statute or treaty, as well as appeals of supposed judicial error in lower courts, rather than on questions of constitutionality per se. But where constitutionality IS concerned, it's far from obvious that the Court has a very good record vis a vis "judicial review."
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The promise of a shiny "great reset" masks the terrifying future we're entering into
By Rainer Shea
Assessing the capitalist contradictions of the 2020s.
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 Can Vote Suppression be Suppressed?
By Paul Cohen
A promising voting system that applies a statistical approach is seen to suffer from a tendency to discourage voting. Modifying election procedures to help diminish this tendency leads to a way to make vote suppression ineffective.
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Why FDR Flopped in his SCOTUS Pack, and Why Biden Won't Try
By earl ofari hutchinson
In a meeting in the spring, 1935 with his Attorney General, Homer Cummings, Franklin Roosevelt railed against the Supreme Court. Cummings was even more blunt, "They mean to destroy us, we will have to find a way to get rid of the present membership of the Supreme Court."
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How to Beat Republicans at Their Own Game
By Robert Reich
There's nothing unfair about making our democracy fairer. There's no abuse of power in remedying blatant abuses of power.
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 Barrett's Notre Dame colleagues ask her to call a halt to her nomination
Amy Coney Barrett has failed to disclose an awful lot of documents to the Senate in her nomination to the Supreme Court. This is probably one of them: a letter from 88 of her Notre Dame colleagues, dated Oct. 10, asking her to withdraw at least temporarily from consideration for the position. What's in it for her ... is "the respect of fair-minded people everywhere." By risking this seat, she could "provide a model of c...
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 The Correlation Between U.S. Democracy and CIA-Sponsored Terror in Cuba's Case
By RAMONA WADI
Fidel Castro had chartered a course for Cuba to ensure the island's complete liberation from U.S. colonial influence and interference. Participating at the UN's Sixth Committee during a debate on "Ways to Eliminate International Terrorism", Cuban Ambassador to the UN Ana Rodriguez reminded that the island has been a target for U.S. terror.
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 How Much, NOT, Have You Donated, to How Many?
By Rob Kall
I was talking to a friend who is an enthusiastic Biden supporter, and he sure wants the senate to flip blue. 'So how much have you donated to Biden, and how many senate candidates have you donated to?' I asked. He replied, flabbergastingly, "Nothing." 'What the f*ck? I replied.'
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 8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May
After an ambitious expansion of the safety net in the spring saved millions of people from poverty, the aid is now largely exhausted and poverty has returned to levels higher than before the coronavirus crisis, two new studies have found. The number of poor people has grown by eight million since May, according to researchers at Columbia University, after falling by four million at the pandemic’s start as a result of an $2 trillion...
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 Divine Magic
By Al Hirschfield
I believe the concept of a "mantra" still isn't really quite properly understood in the West. In the East, they are expressions of something far more "primal" than even very serious aspirants often truly appreciate.
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 More Dirty Money In A School Board Race?
By Carl Petersen
The District Attorney raided the offices of a company whose executives have donated to Marilyn Koziatek. Will she return the money?
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Days of Russia's CSTO are numbered: Putin's Article 5 is worthless
By Augusts Augustiņš
It is no secret that the Caucasus has always been a hard to chew piece of land - not only for the Tsar-era Kremlin, but also for the communist-era Kremlin and the "democratic" thug-era Kremlin, despite the fact that for some time now the unyielding mountain men are being propitiated with the carrot, not the stick, as was the case in the nineties.
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 Packing the Court: Amid national crises, Lincoln and his Republicans remade the Supreme Court
Packing SCOTUS has noble precedents, Mr. President. Here's one example from a fellow Republican you'd love to join on Mt. Rushmore. You've spoken of rewriting US history, Mr. President. What will become of this crucial decade? Please don't and say you did.
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A Young Man Knows How to Make Voting Great Again
By Steve Schneider
Chris Hollins is running the Nov. 3 election in Harris County, TX. He appeared Oct. 13, just hours ago, for an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show. He really cares about making voting convenient and POSSIBLE for people. Unfortunately, I could not find a link to the Maddow interview. But a link to a local television interview gives you an idea about Hollins, what he is doing, and what is possible.
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 Our Downward Path To Wisdom
By John Hawkins
My review of Paul Street's book Hollow Resistance. The author blames Obama for the rise of Trump and shows why. It's his third book on Obama and he hasn't warmed to the guy yet. Hope and Change will never be the same.
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Not All Jews Believe Israel is a Jewish state
By Gulamhusein Abba
Gives an insight regarding the makeup of the state of Israel.
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The Senate Playing Field is Collapsing on Republicans
On Tuesday morning, the Cook Political Report, a non-partisan handicapping tip sheet, moved three Republican senators into more vulnerable rankings: the seats of Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan and Texas Sen. John Cornyn from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican" and the seat of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler from "lean Republican" to "toss up." Those moves now mean that Cook rates 12 Republican seats as competitive, as compared to just t...
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Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Stuff the Middle East With Weaponry
By Tom Engelhardt
The United States has the dubious distinction of being the world's leading arms dealer. It dominates the global trade in a historic fashion and nowhere is that domination more complete than in the endlessly war-torn Middle East.
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Azerbaijan strikes inside Armenia as Karabakh fighting escalates
Azerbaijan said Wednesday it destroyed missile launchers inside Armenia that were targeting its cities, an escalation that threatens to further draw regional powers Russia and Turkey into the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the AFP reported. Armenia confirmed that military positions inside the country were hit but denied its forces had been firing into Azerbaijan.
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