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Are We Really Going to Sell Out the US Alliance for Property Prices? Australia’s China Choices
Australia faces choices in deciding what role China should play in Australia’s future. China is aggressively deploying “soft power” and outright offers of money (or threats to withhold funds) in attempting to sway Australian foreign policy both in the short-term, in pressing China’s case for control of the South China Sea, and in the longer-term, to reconsider its alliance with the United States.
Read more...The Slave Power, Slave Credit, Slave Labor
Book reviews of Slavery’s Capitalism and This Vast Southern Empire, with some thoughts on their relevance to our own day.
Read more...Let’s All Drive Putin Crazy, and Vote With Hand-Marked Paper Ballots, Counted by Hand in Public!
Why we should go retro, and vote with paper ballots (and avoid the next legitimacy crisis).
Read more...What India Can Teach the US About Free and Fair Elections
US elections suffer from suppressed voter turnout and are prone to manipulation. India shows that electoral systems can be freer and fairer.
Read more...Death of TTIP: True? And What Should Follow?
European leaders last week conceded that the TTIP was in trouble. Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now discusses trade talks and what follows.
Read more...The History of ObamaCare, 2013-2016
A compendium of ObamaCare posts at Naked Capitalism (with talking points).
Read more...Fighting for Whose Freedom: Racism, Police Unions, Veterans, and Colin Kaepernick
Outrage over Colin Kaepernick’s comments on racism ignores the role of activism in improving the lives of veterans and Black Americans.
Read more...Two Modest Proposals to Improve the Wages and Working Conditions of Contingent Academic Labor
I hope these proposals are accepted in the spirit with which they are given.
Read more...Is ‘Our Revolution’ the Way To Build Transformative Politics?
Lambert here: Readers know my priors, here; what I wanted out of election 2016 is what I’ve called The Overton Prism, where, instead of bipolar politics — yeah, no kidding — we have tri-polar politics: conservative, liberal, and left, where both conservatives and liberals put markets first, and where the left puts working people first; […]
Read more...The Underground History of the So-Called Public Option (Plus Underpants Gnomes)
The history of single payer and the so-called “public option”; applying a hermaneutic of suspicion.
Read more...Framing Votes for TPP as the Surrender of National Sovereignty (i.e., Treason)
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The left critique on TPP starts with how it hurts labor, and moves on to how it hurts the environment. The difficulty here is that these critiques don’t appeal to the right, and it will take left and right, ganging up, to defeat the party establishments on TPP. I would […]
Read more...Forget Swing States: The Presidential Election Will Be Determined by 20 Swing Counties in Linchpin States
As political scientists drill down into election results, they find swing states are generally won by the next president—but by 5 percent or less of the vote.
Read more...DoJ Says Jail for Not Making Bail is Unconstitutional
The DoJ says jailing poor defendants for not being able to pay bail is unconstitutional. Reform requires challenging the bail bond industry.
Read more...Business Groups Aim to Strong-Arm CFPB on Arbitration
Business groups seek to thwart proposed CFPB regulations to limit forced arbitration clauses and allow consumers to bring class actions.
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