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President Obama, inequality, and Narrative at The Nation
Originally published at the People’s View. December 2011 President Obama delivered a great speech on the economy and fairness in Osawatamie Kansas December 6. Osawatamie is the site where John Brown and other supporters of freedom battled pro-slavery terrorists just before the civil war and also where Theodore Roosevelt described…
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Why US foreign policy is so stupid: Ukraine update
It’s depressing to read Tom Nichols try to rationalize the Iraq War and excuse its supporters (like himself). Nichols even realizes, to some degree, the exceptional mess that the Bush administration created. I supported the war, just as I supported the 1991 war. […] Nonetheless, we screwed up the execution…
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Maybe Charles Pierce should READ the US Constitution some time
Actually, the point is that, in all of human history, if you grant the government surveillance powers, it will use them and, in using them, expand them, and it will end up using them on its own citizens simply because that is always the path of least resistance. This is…
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America’s Middle East Policy Collapses – and not a moment too soon
For nearly seven decades, American efforts in the Middle East have been based on a bipartisan consensus—one of the few to be found in U.S. foreign policy—aimed at limiting Moscow’s influence in that region. This is a core interest of American foreign policy: it reflects the strategic importance of the…
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Conservative freeloaders
Republicans might have won a state house seat in Kentucky Tuesday illustrating the moral emptiness of Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians. One of the campaign issues was that the GOP candidate’s family got millions in farm subsidies. But to Republicans/Conservatives, handouts they get are not handouts. Agriculture Commissioner James Comer told the Herald-Leader Tuesday…
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Dodd-Frank banking reform
Moody’s Investors Service cut its ratings on four of the biggest U.S. banks after deciding the government would be less likely to help them repay creditors in a crisis. Bloomberg Nov 15, 2013 6:07 AM CT Remember the Too Big to Fail Banks (TBTF)? Dodd-Frank makes it easier for the…
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Ted Rall’s progressive delusion
Fresh off of a ape-style cartoon of President Obama that was even too much for the DailyKos, progressive cartoonist Ted Rall decided to take the late Nelson Mandela to task for betraying the revolution that Ted masterminded in his basement. His explanation is classic progressive bullshit – apparently Mandela left…
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Economics – comparative advantage is slaver ideology
One of the most sacred doctrines of mainstream economics is the theory of “comparative advantage”, first developed by Adam Smith and then by David Ricardo in the early 1800s. At the time, American economists from Free States denounced the theory as “British imperialism” because it tried to justify a never-ending…
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Glenn Greenwald’s doctrine of white supremacy
Thurgood Marshall was not nostalgic about the US Constitution. I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever “fixed” at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised…
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Bullshit jobs
David Graeber asked a striking question: what causes the proliferation of bogus “work”? “Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this…
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