Various recent stupidities at Counterpunch

The biggest is running a presser by Bernie Sanders talking about the NDAA and how it's too much defense spending. In this statement, Sanders doesn't talk about how, two weeks ago, he was looking toward a Senate attempt to block Warmonger Joe's plan to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. And, he doesn't at all talk about his two-decade lust for F-35s.

Second-biggest is Melvin Goodman, usually much more sensical, talking about a grain airlift from Ukraine, based on the assumption that Russia would allow this, or perhaps, from his comparison with 1948 Berlin, the assumption that US-NATO could pull it off without planes being shot down. John Helmer notes that part of why Russia shuttered the Odessa grain export deal was its belief that weapons were being smuggled in on grain freighters.

White supremacy was indeed involved with the War in the Pacific's portion of World War II, but trying to reduce the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings to just that and little more is as stupid and as factually untrue, as trying to claim they were ultimately about sending a message to Stalin. Sadly, this hot mess is at Counterpunch+. That said, I'm sure St. Clair, Frank and Cockburn, both behind and in front of the paywall, will offer more such stupidities in the run-up to Aug. 6. On this issue, to use Jeff St. Clair's own words, the site is part of "the more credulous precincts of the left."

I'm sure Eric Draitser has a new Counterpunch Radio coming up that will only add to this.