Peer review has limited use value. Predicting war in the future at this stage if capitalism just isn't very challenging. Elaborate please

For decades, Democratic strategy has been to encourage the most reprehensible features of the Republican Party to seep out and use it to panic their voters. As disliked as Biden is, I think his party

This documentary is periodically available on You Tube, but was pulled a while back, perhaps in preparation for its re-release. For those who've not seen it and are not where it will be re-released, y

Trump is old news and doesn't know it yet. His most ardent followers also tend to have t h e shortest attention span. There's more like him waiting in the wings. Some worse.

I think David's hit the key problems here. The military capacity of the Ukrainian government is best measured by the strength of the Russians, whose efforts face some of the same shortages and even mo

The U.S. government does lie consistently, and it almost never tells the truth without putting its own twist on it. But are people seriously suggesting that we can approximate reality by simply gainsa

If the Republicans regain the House, it will seriously decrease the appeal of a second term for Trump or the election of a President DeSantis, the chances for which seem far more remote than when that

I share the sentiment that the Left should be focused more on the immediate problem in Washington. Polls notwithstanding, I don't see how the Democrats can lose. Not that they don't deserve to lose, b

I will believe the 100,000 when I see it. :-)

We need to remember that nothing they call "our democracy" actually is. None of the politicians and media outlets regularly bloviating about defending "our democracy" have initiated anything to remove

By virtue of being in the U.S., there is no shortage of pro-Ukrainian activities being pursued. We should give priority to initiatives that should be done, that will make sense to the broader society,

I'm increasingly agnostic about the outcome, since it's unclear what "winning" will or won't look like in this setting. I'm also skeptical about a new Cold War, though this is the dominant narrative i

David is making the key point here. As with the international brigade, efforts to engage in material aid for Ukraine will wind up reaching there through the delivery mechanisms of the bourgeois states

That smudging of a distinction between "foreign legionnaires" and what I think people have in mind here is telling. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/14/russia-ukraine-war-international-legion-for

Wow! Is this thread still unraveling? :-) The idea of International Legions or International Brigades actually goes back to 1848, but these were always associated with the organizations of the Left (I

That's probably because the opening point is simply flawed. The DSA is as much of a mish-mosh as was the old SDS, except that it's embraced the term "socialist." I don't think it's a bad thing. I thin

We'll see. We just have no reason to think that the same considerations that kept this from taking place a year ago (or a decade ago) are not still operative. In that case, it will be what it will loo

Way late and misdirected. There's no platform for a caucus, and no clear purpose for one other than as a recruiting venture. Something should have been done years ago, but not this. I again urge sugge

This is being presented as a new wave of Russian armor and infantry. However, while making no claim to be any kind of a military expert, I'd venture the suggestion that it would probably take a line a

People do make it terribly easy on themselves when they decide to focus on this or that statement of a DSA body and ascribe that position to the entire of what remains the closest thing to a mass soci