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The self-crippling of #ows
OWS started as the President was in the midst of trying to sell his jobs bill. The bill hired teachers and construction workers to do useful work by eliminated special tax favors for corporate executives (the executive jet tax break), oil companies, and hedge fund managers. You’d imagine this bill…
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The 18th Brumaire of Mel Brooks
Slavoj Žižek invokes Marx’s “18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" to half-heartedly support an argument against the doctrine of human rights and Professor Corey Robin (a far more pedestrian thinker) cites Marx’s work as "master text” in yet another tired episode of “Obama is teh suxxor”. What makes The 18th Brumaire valuable 160…
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Neoliberalism II
When left wing critics use the term “neoliberal” they are, at best, amplifying the confusion caused by the use of “liberal” in Europe to mean what we call “conservative” in the United States. European “liberal” parties claim to favor “liberalized market rules” (deregulation), free enterprise, small government, and other policies…
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The rigged game
The Koch brothers were born rich. Their money allowed them to get richer by rigging the game. They pour poison into someone else’s river – saving money on pollution control equipment – and profiting from it at the expense of people who used to swim or fish or sell services…
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The American Jobs Act is a revolutionary small step
The American Jobs Act, now being ignored in a Congress near you, has some modest small steps that that carry a radical proposition – that the purpose of government is to serve the common wealth of the nation, not the private wealth of the greedy. One of the provisions takes …
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Occupy Wall Street and The American Jobs Act
Anybody who saw how Dick Fuld, the CEO of Lehman Brothers could walk away with more than ½ billion dollars for bankrupting his company and losing tens of billions of dollars of other people’s money entrusted to his care knows that The Wall Street Economy is about one thing: insiders…
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Songs for the Nostalgia Left
Boy the way Bob Dylan Played Songs that made the Hit Parade Guys like us we had it made Those were the days. – FDR welcomed their hate LBJ could legislate our micro-bus ran so great Those were the days – And you knew who you were then didn’t have…
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Why there are no protests
Why are there no peace marches against the unpopular war in Afghanistan and the continuing expense of our “residual” occupation of Iraq? Why do Republican congressmen and state officials so rarely face protests against their lack of patriotism and hard care Party line? Why do highly profitable companies that are…
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Oz Lear
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.Ailes hand me the evil plan. Know that we have dividedIn three our kingdom: and ‘tis our fast intentTo spread hatred, fear, and misery in all three;Conferring them on younger weasels, while weUnburthen’d crawl toward Power. Our son of sleazeball James,And you, our no…
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