Mike Whitney

MIKE WHITNEY lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.

Stronger Economic Growth? Over My Dead Body, Says Janet Yellen

The Trump Investigation: Essential Criminal Probe or Politically-Motivated Witch Hunt?

Trump Flip-Flops on Bubblemaking

McMaster Takes Charge: Trump Relinquishes Control of Foreign Policy 

Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas

Blood in the Water: the Trump Revolution Ends in a Whimper

Worst Joke Ever?  U.S. Spy Chief Gives Saudi Prince Highest Award for “Fighting Terrorism” 

Trump’s Deregulation Boondoggle; “One Shitty Deal”

Trump Plays Cat and Mouse with Iran

The Berkeley Incident

How We the People Were Screwed by Obama’s Bogus “Recovery”

Game Over for Democrats?

Double Standards:  Where Were the Liberal Protestors During Obama’s Wars? 

The Trump Speech That No One Heard 

US Intel Agencies Try to Strong-Arm Trump into War With Russia  

The Trump Bubble

How Putin Derailed the West

Trump Unchained

Obama Stepped Back From Brink, Will Hillary?

Pentagon Begins Low-Intensity, Stealth War in Syria

Did I Say That? State Department Official Admits Ties to Terrorist Groups

The Biggest Heist in Human History

Putin Ups the Ante: Ceasefire Sabotage Triggers Major Offensive in Aleppo

Oh, Say Can You See the Carnage? Why Stand for a Country That Can Gun You Down in Cold Blood?

Rogue Mission: Did the Pentagon Bomb Syrian Army to Kill Ceasefire Deal?

Assad’s Death Warrant

Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again

Can We Please Get Rid of the Pledge?

Three Cheers for Kaepernick: Is Sitting During the National Anthem an Acceptable Form of Protest?

The Broken Chessboard: Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire

Washington Slapdown: Turkey Turns to Moscow for Help

The Coup in Turkey has Thrown a Wrench in Uncle Sam’s “Pivot” Plan

Donald Trump and the Revolt of the Proles

Another Fed Fiasco: U.S. Bond Yields Fall to Record Lows

¡Basta Ya, Brussels! British Voters Reject EU Corporate Slavestate

Negative Rates, Plunging Yields and a “Fix” for the Economy

The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: an Interview with Eva Golinger

Blanket Student Debt Amnesty Now

Socialist Senator Explains the Difference Between Democrats and Republicans

PEW Explains Who is Voting for Trump and Why

The “Gig Economy”; Another Vicious Attack on Ordinary Working Slobs

Is This Class Warfare?

Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?

Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop?

Draghi’s Giant Giveaway; More Handouts for Wall Street

A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?

Wall Street’s Savage Reckoning: Clouds Gather Over G-20 Summit

Regime Change in Ankara? More Likely Than You Think

Could a Bomb Blast in Ankara Change the Outcome of the War in Syria?

Stocks Dive as Confidence in Fed Fades