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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…

  • Bare knuckle politics

    [From 2011] Previously published on The People’s View. If you read the Wall Street Journal or right wing blogs, you know who Ron Bloom is. He is special advisor to Tim Geithner and White House director of manufacturing policy. He’s a former official at the United Steel Workers Union who…

  • Chris Hedges defends Cornel West

    I say, Thurston, did they really give your ticket to a mere porter?

  • The art of distraction

    The moral and practical failure of US policy in the middle east is wrapped up in our dependence on petroleum. The reasons why we are firing missiles at camps in Yemen, sending special forces teams into Pakistan, maintaining a huge fleet in the Persian gulf and fighting wars in Iraq…

  • Freddy de Boer’s easy moral dudgeon

    Glenn Greenwald led me to this ridiculous bit of moral preening on the death of Osama bin Ladin. Well, what you feel is your business and what I feel is mine, and now he is dead and the question is only what kind of a country we want to rebuild…

  • The poverty of professional leftism

    Ernst Thälmann was the leader of the German Communist Party in the late 1920s. He insisted that the “lesser of two evils” Social Democrats not the Nazis were the primary threats to German workers although he might have reconsidered by the time the Gestapo executed him. The annoying style of…

  • The Greenwald Method – Panetta edition

    [Greenwald writes] Speaking of “frat boy reactions,” Leon Panetta is excitingly speculating about which actors should portray him in the movie about the Hunt for bin Laden, helpfully suggesting Al Pacino. It’s been a long time since Americans felt this good and strong about themselves – nothing like putting bullets in someone’s…

  • Republican plan: The government should just pick losers, not winners and losers

    Where there are free markets, last year’s winners are constantly limited or even run over by competition from nimbler and hungrier new entries that, in a modern industrial economy, often bring disruptive new technologies to market. But, as Adam Smith pointed out, the wealthy are motivated to conspire to restrain…

  • NYT and Barofsky smear Democrats – “Progressives” taken in

    First published on DailyKos. (and if you never had the privilege of reading Bob Swern’s hysterical sky-is-falling articles in DailyKos you won’t get the paragraph starting with “Now I’ve previously”.) Neil Barofsky’s absurd self-justifying attack piece in the New York Times is built on an atrociously dishonest sleight of hand…

  • Can Matt Taibbi really be that naive?

    Bring out my fainting couch, Matt Taibbi has just revealed that in America, in AMERICA!, people who make a lot of money via corporate chicanery can often get away with it. Of course, it’s President Obama’s fault too. Indeed, the shocking pattern of nonenforcement with regard to Wall Street is…