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Mangione Moment

How long before we have another Mangione moment, when someone opens fire on a CEO, banker or politician? How soon before some poor, desperate American, with nothing to lose, attacks one of the sociopaths who rule our country? The Sackler … Continue reading

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Techno-Feudalism

The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading

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Give War a Chance

The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close. Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war … Continue reading

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Let them eat DEI

Democrats need to make a decision. They can either continue their decades-long accommodation of billionaires, banks and corporate interests, while deploying Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI) to massage the consciences of liberal America without upsetting the power structure, or embrace an agenda that … Continue reading

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State Media

The US has long maintained a largely invisible, highly effective propaganda system, described by CIA official, Frank Wisner, as the mighty Wurlitzer,” on which he could play any propaganda tune. Back then the CIA maintained a network of writers, journalists … Continue reading

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Thread the Middle

The next four years are set to be a wild ride, but I intend to thread the middle. By that I mean that to defeat Trump we must scrutinize, modify and adapt our resistance. Furthermore, we cannot fail to acknowledge … Continue reading

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 Authoritarian Conflict Management

Out of town. So here’s a important article by Mike Whitney, detailing the ways in which Trump is responsible for Hamas’s bust out of Gaza and Israel’s genocidal response. And a taste–“So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke … Continue reading

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Gangster State

The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence. Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration … Continue reading

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Traitors

Billionaires are traitors, actively sabotaging the general welfare of America with their insatiable greed, and yet we celebrate them. The only reason we don’t immediately recognize their betrayal is due to the mighty propaganda Wurlitzer that venerates sociopathic CEO’s in … Continue reading

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Pay the Toll

We have a tollbooth economy, where necessary components of modern life–education, healthcare, transportation and communication–have become prohibitively expensive, in the process erecting barriers to economic participation. A major feature of the tollbooth economy is the increasing weight of rentier activities … Continue reading

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