~I have been posting this paragraph quoting the Chris Hedges article linked below for a while now. But I realized that by breaking it up into individual sentences, it becomes a Bill of Indictment...

"The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us.

Unable to expand and ( Read more... )

American does not have a far left movement ( Read more... )

“Donald Trump is Putin's revenge for America's egregious interference in Russia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ~Nebris ( Read more... )

~I keep reading endless numbers of articles and essays about how Trump became president. And none of the them really seem to get it. Chris Hughes comes close, but he seems to have lost his mind. Can't blame him really, as everyone is dancing around the elephant in the room; we are in fact already IN Collapse, eg, The System is in Terminal Failure ( Read more... )

Provisions that allow foreign investors to bypass the federal courts could undermine U.S. legal protections.Alan Morrison Jun 23, 2015 ( Read more... )

"The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us. Unable to expand and generate profits at past levels, the capitalist system would begin to consume the structures that sustained it. It would prey upon, in the name of austerity, the working class and the poor, driving them ever ( Read more... )

"Both sides are equally 'corrupt'. And because of that, each has to pander to its base. Dems are constrained in that because their base is, more or less, Socially Progressive and often that conflicts with the economic needs of their Corporate Pay Masters, eg income inequality, tax rates, environmental concerns, etc ( Read more... )

Originally posted by boingboing_net at Chicago schools lost $100M by letting Wall Street engineer their finances

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FgF6XifoioI/chicago-schools-lost-100m-by.html

http://boingboing.net/?p=349929


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Originally posted by boingboing_net at It's all but impossible to earn a living as a working artist, new report shows

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dtmh3oI-YQQ/its-all-but-impossible-to-ea.html

http://boingboing.net/?p=339137

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"The dumbest thing Marx ever did was fall for that "withering away of the state" business. Whether the state is "bourgeois" or "proletarian" or "cooperative" or "corporatist" or what have you, there is not the slightest reason for thinking that the state, as such, will come to an end. There is no reason at all for thinking that complex human ( Read more... )