Really. You see, this isn’t even Flint and he didn’t deliver newspapers to my Grandma who didn’t think he was a jerk probably because he actually walked up to the front porch and placed them a step from the mail box instead of pitching it halfway down the front sidewalk from his bike as he …
Tag: ek Politics
Jun 20 2016
It’s Bigger On The Inside
C’mon, just say it. Everybody does. You think it’ll last forever: people and cars and concrete. But it won’t. One day it’s all gone. Even the sky. My planet’s gone. It’s dead. It burned, like the Earth. It’s just rocks and dust. Before its time. What happened? There was a war, and we lost. A …
Jun 17 2016
Give Me Liberty
This piece by Glenn Greenwald (in the Washington Post! Yay Glenn!) explores a theme I have consistently articulated- United States citizens are, collectively, cowards. We routinely accept 32,675 traffic deaths annually (2014 report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, for whom I occasionally work, the most recent complete report available) and panic over the …
Jun 17 2016
The Brazilian Tea Party
When can we call it a coup? As Corruption Engulfs Brazil’s “Interim” President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept June 16 2016, 12:49 p.m. Momentum for the impeachment of Brazil’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initially driven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil’s …
Jun 16 2016
Brexit
I’ve remained mostly silent about the prospects of Brexit. On the one hand Remain is being supported by David Cameron, a truly horrible human, and George Osborne, even worse. It’s also being supported by all the Banksters, Bureaucrats, and Corporatists that make up the Neolib consensus both on the Continent and in Britain who predict …
Jun 16 2016
Investor State Dispute Settlement By The Numbers
ISDS is not the only problem with the TPP and the TTIP, but it certainly is a big one. What’s particularly interesting in this piece by Glenn Moody is it puts some numbers on how much the winners and losers, well…, win and lose and who they are. It’s not pretty. My emphasis throughout. TPP’s …
Jun 15 2016
Exceptional
It is with a certain grim disgust I have avoided U.S. Media, particulary cable TV, over the past few days. It certainly is not surprising to me that political reaction is pretty evenly divided between Islamophobes, Homophobes, and those who are willing to make small, ineffectual, symbolic gestures of sympathy before re-embracing the NRA’s cult …
Jun 08 2016
Themistocles
Now I understand that most of you think Ian Welsh is one ‘O’ short of a Marx brother (Ianno?) but so am I (ekko, definitely). What I like about him is he’s not afraid to tackle the big issues, for instance the ‘Great Man’ theory of history. For those unfamiliar it goes something like this, …
May 29 2016
No Passes
On issues of foreign policy, war and peace, all the candidates are equally terrible. Either one will lead to war: Hawkish Hillary and reckless Trump could both lead to prolonged new wars by Paul Rosenberg, Salon Saturday, May 28, 2016 09:30 AM EST we’ve been on a downward spiral since losing the Vietnam War and …
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