krebscycle

  • The dispossessed in late middle age

    There is nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, the poor and their misery. There is no way to act rightly and with a clear heart. There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into and fear of loss and the wish…

  • Wishful thinking

    news came about the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto. Since a few months before, when the serious “slip-up” of Celek and many others in Piotrkow and Lublin took place, communications with the groups outside the ghetto were almost non-existent. The Warsaw ghetto, lacking direct contacts with the outside, received these…

  • Heidegger

    This has got to be one of the most morally obtuse bits of writing ever committed to paper. Concerning 1933: I expected from National Socialism a spiritual renewal of life in its entirety, a reconciliation of social antagonisms and a deliverance of western Dasein from the dangers of communism. These…

  • Truthiness and the TARP non-scandal

    “Truthiness is what you want the facts to be, as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer, as opposed to what reality will support.” – Colbert Thanks to Gretchen Morgensen of the New York Times we have this story from Neil Barofsky’s truthy expose of…

  • Outsourcing and crappy journalism

    Previously published at the People’s View. Here’s Mother Jones magazine opening the predicted “progressive” storyline that Obama and Romney are not all that different Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are bickering over who is the bigger fan of outsourcing. The Obama campaign has accused the private equity firm Romney owned…

  • disrespect and managerial culture

    Obama’s relationship with Geithner became clear to me when I saw the video of Geithner playing basketball (in white shirt and suit pants) in China. The guy can still sink a jump shot and Obama respects that. Same with Duncan, e.g. Who cares about their policies? The guys can ball.…

  • HE’S BLACKETY BLACK with UPDATE!

    One of the better answers I have found comes from a well-known supporter of Mr Romney – Suzy Welch, former editor in chief of the Harvard Business Review, and wife of Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. In an appearance on CNN with her husband, Mrs Welch suggested that…

  • Where do we go from here?

    Speech by Martin Luther King The rhetorical brilliance of this speech is so impressive that it matches the underlying cold eyed realism of the political analysis. Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceAtlanta, Georgia16 August 1967 Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme,…

  • Romneys Ripoff Capitalism

    Romneys Ripoff Capitalism

    In 1992, Bain Capital bought American Pad & Paper by financing 87 percent of the purchase price. In the next three years, Ampad borrowed to make acquisitions, repay existing debt and pay Bain Capital and its investors $60 million in dividends. As a result, the company’s debt swelled from $11…

  • A Greenwald primer – in progress (update 6/10/2013)

    I’m putting together some of my favorite Greenwaldianisms. Unusually, Mika Brzezinski was on point: “Quickly, I just want an answer yes or no,” Brzezinski began. “Isn’t it the case that reviewing of emails or any wiretapping cannot take place without an additional warrant from a judge and a review? It’s…