Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: CounterPunch
by John G Russell

“Like the country he ‘leads,’ Donald J. Trump lives in a state of perpetual denial. Trump and his enablers like to present him as a hands-on president, a man at the top of his game, whether it’s on the golf course, in the Oval Office, or at televised cabinet briefings where sycophants pucker up and lather him with praise. … Yet when asked about the strike on boats in the Caribbean, Trump, the master of denial, ‘knows nothing.’ The pardon of former Honduran president and convicted cocaine kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández? ‘I don’t know who you’re talking about.'” (12/12/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/sgt-trump-the-art-of-implausible-deniability/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook

“Israel has penned us all into a ‘debate,’ one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire – not the genocide it is waging by other means.” (12/12/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2025/12/11/israels-biggest-con-trick-hiding-the-true-numbers-it-has-killed-in-gaza/

Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle

“Break out the popcorn and a jumbo box of Raisinets, because just when we thought the Warner Bros. Discovery drama was over, it turned out we had barely gotten started. The suspense over the company’s pending sale is mounting, and new questions are developing faster than writers can resolve old ones. Which suitor will shareholders choose? Will regulators block the deal? Will any of these characters find happily ever after? … Eventually writers might resolve the biggest mystery: Why does anyone want to buy this company, anyway?” (12/12/25)

https://archive.is/Njs5c

Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro

“In bullying Maduro, Trump aspires to nothing loftier than the principle that, within any given sphere of influence, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. … Having gone through the horrors we have gone through, I don’t begrudge Venezuelans their revenge fantasies against Maduro’s genuinely evil regime. Smart, sane Venezuelans I know will read this column, agree with every word in it, and still want Trump to start dropping bombs on Maduro and his cronies. At this point, the hatreds in Venezuela are tribal — once you’ve seen a government destroy not just your life but the life of everyone you care about, you will side with its enemies, whoever they may be. But we should at least have the presence of mind to grasp what we’re supporting.” (12/12/25)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/trump-wants-to-dominate-venezuela