What's a Human Being "Worth"? The Moral and Economic Crisis of the 21st Century
Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, recently summed up the conservative position about the value of human life:I'm not going to say that we're all created equal... you're worth what you're...
View ArticleThe Illuminati are amateurs
It's time we all apologized to our neighborhood conspiracy theorists. They were right all along. Everything in the world really is being controlled and manipulated. They just blamed the wrong...
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ACM: The Power of the Flea Market
Flea markets, Free market: not so much a pun as a reality, that informal economies flourish with the inevitable rise and subsequent failure of so-called free-markets, first as deregulated, then as...
View ArticleOn the Need for a New Economic Paradigm
Those of you Kossacks who might have had occasion to read any of my comments over the last year know that I frequently speak of the need for a new economic paradigm. The release of the latest IPCC...
View ArticlePower to the people. Tomorrow we change the world!
I can't be there. I remember all the Marches of the sixties and seventies I was at. My spirit will be there. As I approach the end of my time here I am more and more concerned about what we are...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Michael Harrington!
I am proud to honor a great man. He was a big influence on my life as well as on leaders of our country. These are some of the things Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Had to say on his...
View ArticleDoes anyone remember the Diggers?
This diary is motivated by another by One Pissed Off Liberal : Giants on the Land: The full story of the hippies He writes: The full story of the hippies is much more complex than what is commonly...
View ArticleDemocratic Socialism and religion
If your perception of modern society is anything like mine you see decay and degeneration in all our institutions. One of the most obvious is religion. We see again and again organized religious...
View ArticleHuman evolution and world systems theory: are Nations going to be obsolete?
I am revisiting some ideas about the evolution of human society in the context of a world facing ecological disaster. Recent times have already shown clearly the failure of the "Nation" concept in the...
View ArticleThe Fate of Greece and "Green Capitalism: The God That Failed."
Dear Readers:This is a commentary upon Greece, the Greek drama, which affects us all, know it or not, because it is the first genuine challenge, however clumsy, to austerity at national election polls....
View ArticleDrill baby drill!
As we march faster and faster toward the point of no return (or past it?) we certainly need to drill for and burn more oil! Why criticize this bold step forward? After all we democrats need to stick...
View ArticleThe theater has a new show: The Stock Market
The ecosystem and the climate are just not competitive with the programmed theater. it is so much fun to watch. If you want to get a feeling for what really matters to people just keep reading...
View ArticleJust published: Global Insanity Redux. Its meaning for the 2016 election.
The follow up paper to our book just came out in the latest issue of Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. Here is the abstract: In our book Global Insanity we argued that...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: The Democratic Socialist Program
After the electoral success of Kshama Sawant in Seattle and the Presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, interest in socialism has been at an all time high. It was Merriam-Webster's word of the year...
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A View from Abroad About the Iowa Caucuses: Is "Feel the Bern" About to Go...
Master of the UniverseOn the day after World War II ended, the United States, to invoke Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, bestrode the world like a colossus. Never in human history had a country looked so...
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Clinton Caught Deceiving Self, Voters
The Clinton camp is currently lined up behind a buffet of crow. Just earlier this day, a Clinton supporter wrote an article about how Bernie Sanders was yet again caught deceiving voters. Earlier this...
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Fear of the Unknown - And What the Future Holds for One of Our Community Members
Among the things that most human beings value a great deal are two of the most elusive to attain: stability and predictability in one’s life. Many of us struggle forever and muddle through our lives,...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraiser for smiley7!
Hey all,Yesterday, JekyllnHyde wrote a community fundraiser diary for smiley7 and we’re going to continue that today, to try to get mr. smiley to his goal of $7000.00!In the past 24 hours, this...
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Celebrating Community, the Team, and the memory of The Pootie Queen
I came to Kos for politics and found love.If i could tell you how being showered with a tsunami of love feels, I would. But I’ve not that great a gift with words, though wordsmith on occasion I...
View ArticleMarxist Mode
I hear crickets. Hundreds of them out there in the darkness, singing. It's a warm March evening. The earth is damp and fragrant; the plans are growing like, well, weeds. I smell jasmine on the...
View ArticleWho will judge the dead (undeserving & deserving)
Reposted with edits from a well-received series of comments:Much broader issues are raised, by Hillary’s Nancy AIDS “Gaffe”, than any questions about Hillary herself (including the breadth of her...
View ArticleBHO can save HRC & doom Trump by acting now on TPP
1. If Trump is the only anti-TPP nominee, then he has a strong chance to beat Hillary.Reasons: TPP, besides featuring its own bad policy and worse (democracy-evading) politics, also has become the most...
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San Diego feels the BERN!
I attended my first political rally along with my wife, two daughters, and about 16,000 of my neighbors at the San Diego Convention Center downtown!My two daughters and wife in line with the Coronado...
View ArticleI think we have the next President.
Not because of delegate math either, which reminds me of what Douglas Adams talks about referring to the way numbers work on a waiters check; just not applicable to the real world of math at all.No,...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: The Revolutionary Class Of The Future
Cross posted to caucus99percent.The desire for revolution lives at the beating heart of anti-capitalism. There may be differing visions of how that revolution will be conducted and on exactly whose...
View ArticleDoes technology have a "life of it's own" or are we in control?
First of all what does it mean for technology to have a life of it's own? This can be a difficult concept if you are in tune with prevailing social myths. We tend to believe most of what we are...
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ACM: 31 March 2013 an ACM Introduction
I have been thinking about how to introduce some of the methodologies we use in DK to augment the basic liberalism and progressivism necessary to produce more and better Democrats. This piece is...
View ArticleHow and why organizations fail
This would seem to be a simple subject. Yet it is not. I have written and published on this topic from my perspective as a complexity theorist. A New Approach to a Theory of Management: Manage the...
View ArticleNot If But When: A democratic Uprising in the United States
UPDATE 2:Comrades,I'm sorry to sully this post by doing actual, you know, writing, but I want to say that the reaction this post indicates that the hunger for radical overhaul transcends the usual...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Don’t Buy the Hype: The Gender Wage Gap and Women's...
Accordingly to an article entitled, “More Women Are bringing Home the Bacon…, ” heralding women’s gains in pay equity, a recent Pew study revealed that an impressive number of married breadwinner moms...
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ACM: 30 June 2013 A Ghost in a Machine walks the Globe
If one can claim that a virtual economy offers increased possibility for revolutionary political change, that change should be measured against more material forms of analysis rather than treating...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: New Era Windows- Symbol of a New Workers Movement
This diary is primarily a recompilation of research and articles written by Laura Flanders for Grit TV this summer. LAURA FLANDERS is the host of The Laura Flanders Show coming to public television...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: What Is Capitalism? Part I
There have appeared in this space several thought-provoking attempts to define capitalism, including here and here. Although this might seem to some a mere academic exercise, nothing could be further...
View ArticleNeoliberals: Where Did They Come From?
Political labels can be very difficult to define in a manner that is clear and consistent. For most of the 20th C US politics was cast in the frame of conservatives vs liberals. However, it seems to me...
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ACM: The Media Landscape After the Culture War
Every war seems permanent as does every revolution until it ends which requires much in the way of interpreting rather than explaining the victory to the vanquished, even in mediated spaces that can...
View ArticleGive us revolution or keep giving us death: the economic foundation of the...
Our 1%-centric economy kills poor and working class people, among other things by driving them to self-medicate in dangerous ways. The economic phenomena related to addiction not only include denial of...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: the bad gas we breathe without cultural mercaptan, and Clinton...
Neoliberalism is deadly, but you wouldn't know it because of the cultural hegemony it wields.Thiols are often referred to as mercaptans. The term mercaptan is derived from the Latin mercurium captans...
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Daily Substance: U shd be DeMoralized! Shd Not! Shd Too!
Establishment did not spend much dirty money pissing upstreamWhy can’t they see that dirty money costs them in turnout among voters disgusted by the obvious influence of donor money and lobbying (not...
View ArticleDebbie does something right -- inspires music video Numbers Rahm-ba
Can all Kogs still agree that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been a disastrous DNC chair, and prior head of Red-to-Blue committee? She’s also been a bad vote in Congress but (not coincidentally) has...
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AntiCapitalist Meetup: First-World Problems of tourism and néo-libéralisme
xInternational tourism to the U.S. declined in early 2017, representing a loss of nearly $2.7 billion in spending https://t.co/2MDQOCVqSqâ The New York Times (@nytimes) September 24, 2017Trump...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up - "Monopoly: Socialism, 'because winning is for...
After having tried and failed many decades ago to get a political economy journal to publish my review of Anti-Monopoly, I recently found yet another spin on analog board games demonizing socialism....
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Anti-Capitalist MeetUp - green political economy: Ecocentrism, Just...
There are some continuing items of discourse that are important to our understanding how the climate crisis is one of ajust transition to sustainable production. Naomi Klein reminds us in a recent...
View ArticleAntiCapitalist Meetup - Rifts and Riffs: "is the externality of nature...
Slavoj Žižek writes an article riffing on the book by Kohei Saito, (Karl Marx's Ecosocialism, 2017) to make a point about biological-robotics as ecosystem tools, but also makes some points useful for...
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Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an...
“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning markets, authentic democracy...
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"You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves." (Part...
The main objective of the HUAC was the investigation of un-American and subversive activities. Soon after his appointment Dies received a telegram from theKu Klux Klan: "Every true American, and that...
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"You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves." (Part...
“Born the son of a former slave, in an age of open segregation and persecution, Robeson was one of the most multi-talented and humanitarian artists of the early twentieth century. Yet, his unbounded...
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'Resident Alien' is unlike how 1969 TV comedy 'Turn-On' was canceled after...
Like the failure to launch 5G in US air-space, even as Europeans have no problem with it, next week Wednesday, the second season of Resident Alien begins on the SyFy television channel. This season...
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: toward an American (post-) industrial policy
“The relationship between the labor process-what Marx often referred to as the "hidden abode" of industrial capitalism and the social reproduction of the industrial workforce.' remains in the current...
View ArticleEnergy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine, and Europe in Challenging Times
This Zoom event comes from Energy (and Other) Events Monthly (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). I attended and am sharing my notes. 12/9/22Energy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine, and Europe in...
View ArticleWhy bother decolonizing disciplines in the face of the RWNJ war on culture
Can one’s professional or academic discipline become more inclusive, creative and ethical. Is there “no discipline that is immune from this task of decolonization".It seems all the more essential...
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