Saturday, November 23, 2024

The DNC fiddles while the world burns

While election year politics dominates the news, the control of both major U.S. political parties by the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex makes the policies they agree on more dangerous than their disagreements.

How a tie-breaking vote fueled America’s economy

Members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 17M realize that only a transformational “reset” will ensure the factory’s long-term survival in a highly competitive, ever-changing, worldwide industry.

Biden’s convention speech made absurd claims about his Gaza policy

It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel.

The imploding Trump sequel is a bust, exposing the one-trick pony phony: Could he...

The only thing worse than lurching into dotage—and failing to realize you ain’t what you used to be—is defying all good advice to drastically modify your pitch.
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Project 2025: The MAGA plan to take your freedom

The country, it would turn America into would be hard for any of us to recognize.

What Trump has already wrecked—and still at it, still escaping deterrence, still capable of...

Who has more greatly battered the entire system of justice from prosecution investigations, to arraignments and indictments—in short law and order?
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The ghost of Hubert Humphrey is stalking Kamala Harris

Hubert Humphrey faced the choice to keep supporting the war or speak out for a change in 1968. Kamala Harris faces it now.

Capitalism, mass anger, and 2024 elections

The mainstream media likewise cannot grasp the relationship of mass anger to capitalism.

Capitalism’s unequal distribution deprives you of true freedom

Conflicts over income, wealth distribution, and wealth redistribution are thus intrinsic to capitalism and always have been.