Donald Trump, terrorist Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EDT June 11, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis I don’t know why it is that most of the mainstream media omits this important detail about the attack on 75 year old Martin Gugino. Before his unprovoked summary assault and grievous resulting injury by “peace officers,” this harmless, elderly resident of Buffalo,…
Donald Trump is rushing headlong into sheer lunacy. Robert Harrington | 12:01 pm EDT May 23, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis (Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.) As I write this, 340,003 human beings have died from coronavirus worldwide. Of that number, 97,647 of those deaths are Americans. In other words,…
Trump’s hydroxychloroquine habit is the triumph of rightwing quackery By Richard Wolffe REPRINT from THE GUARDIAN Opinion The president’s anti-science cult represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts from the fringes of American conservatism What kind of buffoon brags about taking a drug that could kill him? Among the…
This is beyond ridiculous by Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EDT May 8, 2020 I have a rare predilection, what some people might call a disease, where I am nearly immune to words. For instance, I was a young man just out of college and into the working world at the start of what came to be…
Blood on their hands Reprint from Palmer Report, written by Robert Harrington April 26, 2020 COVID-19 is not the flu. It is nothing like the flu. Apart from a much higher mortality rate, one thing that is, bafflingly, almost never discussed, are its devastating and life-altering neurotoxic and hepatotoxic after-effects. These include up to a…
HOW DOES IT FEEL? Robert Harrington | 2:00 pm EDT April 20, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis Oh the irony! The indignity of the American macho alt-right little boys, the outrage at their being told what to do with their bodies, is so thick it can be felt all the way to England! And it is in those…
Minority of the Ignorant It ought to be clear to everyone in the United States by now that, thanks in part to a minority of the ignorant, the coronavirus plague will not be ending any time soon. Just as a minority of Americans have somehow managed to hijack the entire gun control narrative, resulting…
Donald Trump Isn’t “Getting Away” With Anything Bill Palmer | 9:09 am EDT April 16, 2020 (Palmer Report » Analysis) With Americans finding themselves in a such a bleak and desolate place right now, it’s easy to let hopelessness set in. Fatalism is never your friend, but that’s difficult to remember at a time like this. That brings us…
The elephant in the room It’s ironic that the party that employs such a lovely animal as an elephant as its defining symbol is oblivious to its presence in the room. I’m referring to global warming. Republican climate science denialism is that party’s actual defining symbol. That, and the fact that the Republican party…
For Donald Trump, the cruelty is the point By Robert Harrington | 2:01 pm EST February 11, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis Whenever I think of the human quality of largesse, sooner or later I think of Abraham Lincoln. It was Lincoln who appointed some of his enemies and rivals to his cabinet. That his generosity…
