Debbie 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...
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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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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