And yet, the Trump accumulation 'strategy' was most empowering to: * Wall Street * the Military-Industrial Complex * the fossil fuel majors And the anticipated infrastructure program didn't happen so

Statement signed by groups in five Eastern European countries, six if you include Macedonia. ken h Our Strike is Essential! Together with Polish Women for Freedom of Abortion https://internationalview

For what it's worth, I agree with Jim's remarks, and would add only a couple of comments. Greens are no only poor at recruiting people of color, but people in general. I have over 25 years of examples

LRB, Vol. 42 No. 22 · 19 November 2020 SHORT CUTS Rio Grande Valley Republicans Mike Davis Share on TwitterShare on FacebookEmailPrint 1367 words Expecting​ 2008, Democrats got 2016 again, an unnervin

The goal of moving the Democratic Party to the left is a mirage conjured up from the fevered mind of those dying of thirst. There’s absolutely no incentive for the Democrats to embrace a progressive a

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Media pundits and others have been deeply perplexed as to why so many Americans in this election–70 million in fact– nonetheless voted for Trump. But it’s not all that difficult to understand. There a

https://newrepublic.com/article/160126/donald-trump-lost-2020-election-losing-republican-party-too Donald Trump Lost the Election. He’s Losing His Party, Too. The Republicans’ retreat from the preside

(posted to FB by Cedric Bedaitsch.) This is a long post and probably should have been in a blog, but here it is. Read it or not; it's your choice! In my view, Trump represented a fraction of American

The Democratic party candidate, Joe Biden has beaten the Republican party incumbent Donald Trump for the US presidency in 2020. What can we learn from election result about the United States of Americ

The Green Party received just under 400 thousand votes to my knowledge so far, while the Libertarian Party received 1.2 million votes. So the party of AnCaps, conspiracy theorists, hyper-neoliberals,

I think comrade fkalosar's use of the term "mackerel-snapping" is a deeply offensive anti-Catholic slur. In my opinion, it's not what Marxists should be doing. [As a working-class Catholic kid on scho

I hope he pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, but I doubt he will. More likely that he will step down before January 20th if he can be pardoned by Pence.

Sorry -- I think even members of the "non-existent" left have to push hard to move the government in the right direction --- think of what occurred between 1954 to 1965 in terms of improving life for

John's comments were completely convincing -- perhaps one of the most interesting ways to make this clear is to think about Professional Athletes who are (in many cases) millionaires themselves. Consi

don't know what NIcholson says since don't have access to Globe & Mail but this source may be of interest: The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea by Stephe

Replace: "Much hope had been invested in the Latin American ‘Pink Tide’ but it faded after Hugo Chavez’s 2013 death." By: "Much hope had been invested in the Latin American ‘Pink Tide’ but it suffered

He could pardon himself, one supposes. I doubt if that will be necessary--Biden will no doubt offer him a blanket pardon for all offenses with which he might ever be charged anywhere ever, if only he'

As a lifelong knowledge worker--mostly a technical writer, only marginally a software developer, though also, at times, God forgive me, a Systems Analyst, Media Manager, and (sob!) a Business Analyst

(For an obscure article about BRICS subimperialism, two Brazilian comrades and I were just trying to quickly sum up the probable shift; does this capture it?) Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president br