Working towards Hitler Robert Harrington | 3:00 pm EST February 13, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis In his seminal two volume biography of Adolf Hitler, British historian Ian Kershaw proposes a plausible solution to a puzzling conundrum. Students of the period have long understood that Hitler was very much a lazy dictator, involving himself in the details of government…
The Republican Party stands in the way of our survival as a species Many of us have the eighth century historian Bede to indict for the misplaced notion of our genetic and cultural precedents. It was he who gave flight to the idea that, some time after Rome withdrew, Saxon hordes swept across Britain…
Donald Trump’s base can’t buy a clue During the plague years of 1665-1666, Isaac Newton fled Cambridge for his home in Lincolnshire and, as would any bored 23 year old, co-invented a method for the assembly and disassembly of infinitesimals that later became known as calculus. Calculus came in handy when, so the mythology…
It’s Time To Call A Murderer A Murderer In the run up to their 1998 Jackson Pollock retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the show’s curator received a disturbing letter from a Mr Metzger. Metzger wanted to know, “Why are you honoring the man who murdered my sister?” If…
Bill Barr and the Republican cult of death Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EST December 12, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis Immediately upon the release of the Mueller Report and its eponymous author’s tepidly dry, hyper-qualified, squeamish defense, I knew we were finished. I knew that nothing short of angry, full-throated outrage would save it in its presentation, and…
In the end, Donald Trump had no one left to do his dirty work for him – and that’s why it’s all over for him now Bill Palmer | 12:01 pm EDT September 21, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis Donald Trump criminally conspired with Russia in plain sight to rig the 2016 election. He committed treason, espionage, conspiracy against…
Donald Trump is ripping you off even worse than you thought Shirley Kennedy | 6:04 pm EDT August 15, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis (REPRINT) Trump and his Republican cronies continue to turn against the middle class. Sam Berger, a writer for MarketWatch, tells us how this is being done, but he doesn’t tell us the “why.” What’s in…
Donald Trump has found a whole new way to screw us over REPRINT: BD Holly | 3:01 pm EDT July 27, 2019 from Palmer Report » Analysis I woke up today, read a few articles about the shambles that is Brexit, the unbridled disaster that is the Trump administration, and then I read this: “Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon…
CHILD ABUSE AND TORTURE IN AMERICA In May and June 2019, the U.S. government under the Trump administration has rounded up and jailed 60,000 migrant children. They’ve left kids in cars for 39 hours. They’ve had a lawyer argue that they’re not responsible for providing these kids and their families with soap and toothbrushes to…
We’re in hell right now, but here comes the cavalry Bill Palmer | 9:09 am EDT April 12, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis We, the American people, are in hell. It’s been the case to varying degrees since the day Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election. These past couple weeks it’s been even more…
