Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
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Why Explaining US Internal Strife Through “Russian Influence” Is Lazy and Unhelpful
Debunking the latest Twitterverse fever-swamp claims about Russian influence, this time regarding “ties” to Charlottesville.
Read more...Charlottesville: “I Think a Lot More People Are Going to Die Before We Are Done”
A hard look at the neo-Nazis who came to Charlottesville.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
Read more...School Funding Fight in Illinois: Billionaire Ex-Private Equity Governor Rauner v. 2 Million Students
Yves here. Notice how all the hysteria over evil Rooskies, North Korea, and neo-Nazis on the march has diverted media attention away from fights over economic issues? In Illinois, Governor Rauner is pushing through a scheme to curb funding to schools that is designed to hit lower property tax districts and Chicago particularly hard. Some […]
Read more...Brexit: A View from the Other End of the Telescope
Brexit is the incomprehension of a former imperial power, wistfully hoping to recreate a long-gone global sphere of influence.
Read more...Lee Camp: I Witnessed the Charlottesville Terror Attack, Here’s the Video
Lee Camp gives a first person account of the violence at Charlottesville.
Read more...“The Changing of the Guard:” The Prescient 1980 Book That Foretold the Democrat Love Affair With Neoliberalism
How up and coming Democrats in the 1970s and 1980s decided being wannabe Republicans was a path to power.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust
Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...Nurses: Paul Krugman Gives ‘Shallow Political Advice’ On Health Care Reform
While the National Nurses Union back national health care, they are cautiously calling only for Medicare for All, not a more robust system.
Read more...Foxconn’s Con: Seeking Whopping Subsidies for Wisconsin, Michigan Manufacturing Jobs…If They Happen
What the dodgy Foxconn scheme to build factories in the US says about Trump’s commitment to job creation.
Read more...Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus
How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.
Read more...GOP and Democrats Push Trump on Tax Reform
Both parties only have sketches of tax reform plans, and each has basic deficiencies.
Read more...More Brexit Confusion: UK Judges Can Use New ECJ Precedents Post Brexit
The UK is trying to have it both ways on ECJ rulings post Brexit in a manner that seems destined to create a mess.
Read more...Gaius Publius: There Is No “Political Center” in Modern America
Debunking a political fiction that guides Democratic party thinking and messaging.
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