Tag Archives: Simon Patten
Everywhere is war
It certainly doesn’t appear possible for the US to have a non-belligerent foreign policy. Instead, the US aspires to be Techno-Sparta, where a climate of fear, hostility and end-of-times preparation seems to have overtaken US politicians, elites and the corporate media. … Continue reading
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
Can’t make it here anymore
The Democratic Party is poised to deliver a Build Back Better betrayal to the American people. Indeed, the ways in which President Biden’s social and infrastructure spending proposals have been hollowed out are a good microcosm of the Democratic Party’s … Continue reading
FIRE Alarm
We used to make things and employee people who were paid wages that they spent back into the economy. Finance properly allocated capital for productive ends rather than speculation and fraud. We had a productive economy that benefitted Main Street … Continue reading
Back to the Future
Ideologies that serve elite interests never really go away, they just reconstitute in new guises. In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, author David Harvey argues provocatively that neoliberalism is a continuation of early capitalism, whereby modern corporations are busy re-privitizing … Continue reading
My Hate is Pure
Every time I calm down, there’s another reminder of the damage that neoliberalism has wrought. Once again, rather than reading about this in the New York Times or Washington Post, this has to be pointed out and emphasized by William Black, … Continue reading
It’s Pee
Republican’s want to immediately privatize government. They hate the thought of the government doing anything for “those people.” Ever since the New Deal, Republicans have made the intellectual argument that a welfare state saps American’s freedoms, and have mounted a decades … Continue reading
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