What is NeoLiberalism? Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems by George Monbiot, The Guardian Friday 15 April 2016 07.00 EDT So pervasive has neoliberalism become that we seldom even recognise it as an ideology. We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a …
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Apr 16 2016
Sanders’ Banking Breakup Plan
Recently Bernie Sanders has been accused of not having a plan for breaking up “Too Big To Fail” financial institutions. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Bernie has a plan. A complete plan. Part of it requires action under the existing Dodd-Frank legislation, the other …
Apr 15 2016
So Simple Even The Washington Post Gets It
Time Magazine Front Covers this ignorant screed from James Grant, noted Inflation Hawk and Gold Bug, that contends that at $42,998.12 per person the United States National Debt is insupportable and a grave threat to our economy. As everyone should know, the only problem with a National Debt of any amount is not it’s sheer …
Apr 14 2016
Number Nine, No. Nein., #9
I’d play it for you except no one on YouTube seems to have any interest unless it’s reversed (Paul and Ringo are still alive, John and George are dead). It’s too bad in a way because it’s a really pivotal experiment in early electronic music techniques by what is clearly the most popular band ever …
Apr 14 2016
Our Good Friends- The House of Saud
60 Minutes- 28 Pages CBS This Morning- Saudi Response This week’s damning “60 Minutes” report shows just how absurd our War on Terror is by Marcy Wheeler, Salon Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 11:30 AM EST On Sunday, a “60 Minutes” report newly refocused attention on 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into the 9/11 …
Apr 14 2016
The Appearance Of Corruption
To Protect Clinton, Democrats Wage War on Their Own Core Citizens United Argument by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept Apr. 14 2016, 10:36 a.m. (The) key argument of the right-wing justices in Citizens United has now become the key argument of the Clinton campaign and its media supporters to justify her personal and political receipt of …
Apr 13 2016
Who’d A Thunk?
Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds By MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH, The New York Times APRIL 13, 2016 Racism has contributed to a long, systemic pattern of institutional failures by this city’s police department in which police officers have mistreated people, operated without sufficient oversight, and lost the trust of …
Apr 13 2016
Our First “Black” President’s #BLM Fail And Neoliberal Apologist Tour
Black Lives Matter Activist: Bill Clinton’s Defense of “Superpredator” Policies Dehumanizes Us Hillary and Bill and Paul Krugman Race to the Right to Stop the Bern By William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives April 8, 2016 In the last week, Hillary and her surrogates have pivoted hard right and retreated to their long-held positions on …
Apr 11 2016
Targeted Killing
Inside the Kunduz hospital attack: ‘It was a scene of nightmarish horror’ by Emma Graham-Harrison and Dr Kathleen Thomas, The Guardian Sunday 10 April 2016 12.00 EDT As the attack planes returned again and again, and the hospital collapsed and burned, MSF staff inside the hospital, in Kabul and in the United States put in …
Apr 07 2016
A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside an Enigma
Global Tax Haven Network Means Americans Can Hide Wealth At Home The looming mystery behind the Panama Papers: How did the largest document leak in history even happen? By Marcy Wheeler, Salon Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 01:18 PM EST “Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data?” That line — apparently written in English and …
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