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A call to the political revolution
The present-day context of Sanders’“revolution”Once upon a time, back before the present-day paranoia became fashionable, there was such a thing as “antiglobalization protesters.” More recently, there...
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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The $29 Trillion Problem
Traditionally, one of the most reliable ways of predicting future economic performance is to look at corporate earnings. More earnings means more sales, means more profits, means more investment,...
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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...
View ArticleEleven theses on Sanders
(Educated Marxists will recognize the title of this "new essay" as riffing off of Marx's eleven Theses on Feuerbach. For Marx, writing in 1845, this text represents a final break from Feuerbach's...
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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...
View ArticleReal climate change mitigation is harder than you think
— Introduction —I’ve written a number of climate change diaries at Orange, here — but I didn’t write any of them recently. But I was provoked by a diary which discussed Supreme Court review of some...
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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 ArticleThe "Noble Lie": Neoconservatism, and Strauss vs Ayn Rand
As the campaign goes on I have far more questions than answers. The ghost of the Bush administration still haunts us as well as the neoconservative ideology that dominated it and seems very covert yet...
View ArticleI don't know what happened before but tonight the world seems real again
The President was good tonight. I liked his performance better than the last. I never had the negative feelings about the last so many here did. I have been called an "Obama hater" many times because...
View ArticleBook Review: Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel, 2012,...
I was very pleased to be surprised by the package in the mail from Chelsea Green Publishing containing this book and a note asking me to review it. “When Margulis passed away in 2011, she left behind...
View ArticleLet's fight the anti-worker surge. Black Friday and beyond into the season of...
The capitalists seem to be going all out. They are laying off workers closing down businesses and more. Is it a coordinated movement? It sure seems like it. We had a slogan going on Facebook during...
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