Robert Reich on Money & the Left Political Establishment by Gaius Publius, Down With Tyrany Monday, January 25, 2016 Are Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and NARAL, to name a few, establishment in the work they do? No. Are their leaders acting like and supporting the “political establishment” in their endorsements? Yes. The …
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Jan 25 2016
Beating The Rap
If, as I do, you think David Petraeus is a traitor who sold out his country for sex this story will not make you very happy. I suspect it was leaked on purpose by Ashton Carter who has also attempted to strip Petraeus of his rank and pension. How David Petraeus avoided felony charges and …
Jan 25 2016
The Way It’s Done In Washington
Hillary’s big healthcare con: The cynical myth she keeps repeating about Bernie Sanders and single-payer by Chris Brooks, Salon Saturday, Jan 23, 2016 06:30 AM EST There is little doubt that Clinton and the entrenched Democratic Party establishment have little appetite for taking on the medical insurance and pharmaceutical corporate cartel. The call to “build …
Jan 22 2016
Our Friends the Saudis
It’s just a fact that Saudi Arabia is the largest state sponsor of what our Republican compatriots call ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ (I looked that up just to make sure I got it exactly right). Not for nothing 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists were Saudi and it’s been Saudi state policy to spread Wahhabism, one …
Jan 22 2016
Who says I don’t post anything positive about Hillary?
I’m positive she represents more of the same, if that’s what you’re looking for of course. Can Clinton Be Trusted to Regulate the Industry That Made Her Wealthy? Bill Black. The ‘Anti-Manning’ Positions of Hillary Clinton on National Security and Surveillance Marcy Wheeler. Bernie vs. Hillary on Healthcare: What’s In It for Us? Wendel Potter. …
Jan 21 2016
The Desperation of the Elites
The Neolib Establishment is hemorrhaging both notional wealth and political power. These twin developments are not unrelated, but I think for the moment I’ll skip my Modern Monetarist economic critique for the sake of clarity and conciseness. In both cases it is lack of institutional control of the populace, the proletariat or 99.9% if you …
Jan 21 2016
More of the Same or Real Reform?
“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street by Robert Reich Monday, January 11, 2016 Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to break up the big banks or resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act, as Bernie does Instead, she’d charge the big banks a bit more for carrying lots of debt and to oversee them more …
Jan 20 2016
The Limits of Bubbles
Well over 90% of all International Commerce is carried on ships. People are afraid these ‘zombie ships’ are the first sign of global economic collapse John Ficenec, The Telegraph 1/20/16 Fears about the global economy have seen the Baltic Dry Index fall by more than 20% this year, to 369 — its lowest level since …
Jan 20 2016
Not even ‘that’ good a deal.
If you’ve been following the economic analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership (as opposed to the political, ecological, intellectual property, and human rights analyses which are uniformly more horrible than even the strongest detractors were warning) you’ll have noticed that even the World Trade Organization, a fanatically pro-trade group as you might imagine from the …
Jan 19 2016
Democratic Party Failure
Who Lost the White Working Class? by Robert Reich Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ardently pushed for free trade agreements, for example, but didn’t provide the millions of blue-collar workers who thereby lost their jobs means of getting new ones that paid at least as well. They also stood by …
Jan 19 2016
Today in Debbie Wasserman Schultz Must Go!
Or, tell us what you really think Glenn Meet Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s First-Ever Primary Challenger: Tim Canova by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept Jan. 19 2016, 1:17 p.m. In general, Wasserman Schultz is the living, breathing embodiment of everything rotted and corrupt about the Democratic Party: a corporatist who overwhelmingly relies on corporate money to keep …
Jan 18 2016
Birmingham Jail
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has …