May You Live in Interesting Times with a Hue of Orangeness.

Economic issues are not separate from “identity” issuesBuilding the largest possible movement to not only tackle the immense, and intensifying, problems facing humanity and the environment but to overcome these problems is our urgent task. Given the position the Left finds itself in today ( Read more... )

For 2017: Endless Class Warfare. Racist Robots Stealing American Jubs. And Griefstriken Unber Wealthy on Welfare to Overcome Orange horror.

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In 2017, Fusing Identity and Class Politics in “Trumpland”Like millions of other Americans, I was shocked, but perhaps not entirely surprised, by Donald Trump’s victory on election night. His blatant ( Read more... )

Wall Street Neoliberal Democrats Awesome Plan for 2020: ObaHillaBot 2.0! Orange Mutant Monster Wins Re-Election.

Which Part of the 1930s Did You Not Get? Americans Finally Learn To Cooperate On A National Suicide Project
What you assist... you will becomeAmericans have, in recent years, managed to secure for themselves a false and therefore ( Read more... )

How the GOP became the “White Man’s Party”

From Nixon to Rand, Republicans have banked on the unerring support of Southern white men. Here's how it came to be

Excerpted from "Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class."Few names conjure the recalcitrant South, fighting integration with fire ( Read more... )

America's 13 Deficits That Have Lead Up to OWS: Part 2 of 4 - Physical Deficits

America needs a new New Deal
Since Roosevelt's era, infrastructure, manufacturing and the viability of our ecosystem have declined dramatically.
Source - Al Jazeera
Paul Rosenberg Last Modified: 27 Sep 2011 15:21Because the US government, media and political class ( Read more... )

Wasting Away in Hooverville


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A New New Deal under Obama?
John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
http://www.monthlyreview.org/090201foster-mcchesney.php
With U.S. capitalism mired in an economic crisis of a severity that increasingly brings to mind the Great Depression of the 1930s, it ( Read more... )

How Government Prolonged the Depression
Policies that decreased competition in product and labor markets were especially destructive.By HAROLD L. COLE and LEE E. OHANIAN ( Read more... )

"Hope" is the mantra du jour regarding Obama's impending presidency. While some have compared Obama to Lincoln, the more profligate comparison is between BHO and FDR, both of whom came to leadership of the free world amidst dire financial meltdowns that threatened global economies and the systemic viability of the entire global economic system.


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