Dear Ray P: Organization before action
First, I want to thank Ray Pensador for the immense amount of effort he has put into not only raising our awareness (e.g., this,and this, and this), but of actually committing to concrete efforts to...
View ArticleCrassus Redux: Neoliberal Arsonists and Bankster FIRE brigades
How many times do we have to see the { easy credit/ economic bubble/ capital flight/ crash/ austerity=looting } cycle before we call it what it is: daylight robbery. This scam is as old as Rome:Marcus...
View ArticleThe end of history - with a whimper, not a bang
Most of my diaries make extended references to history. Most of my diaries are roundly ignored, except by a small bunch of people interested in history. In this diary I will discuss the impact of the...
View ArticleA Guide to the 1%'s Combined Arms Assault on Democracy
Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different branches of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects...(a modern division) consists of a mixture of infantry,...
View ArticleThe New Slavery and the Civil War over it.
This NSA document dump has created more heated name-calling and irrational, one-dimensional posting than I have seen in quite some time. But this kind of internecine rage is to be expected in the...
View ArticleExactly when did America become a bunch of out-takes from Catch-22?
I first asked myself this question in January, 2013, when I read this story:Secrecy of Memo on Drone Killing Is Upheld"I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow...
View ArticleLewis Powell: Cell Zero in the Cancer that is devouring America
People often speak of a "body politic". If the U.S. has such a thing, the Constitution is its genetic code; and the SCOTUS is the "proofreading" system that keeps the genome from accumulating...
View ArticleDoes a tumor have a soul?
There is no way to be rational with people who refuse to abort fetuses that kill the mother (Ireland), people who refuse abortions to 11 year old incest victims (Brazil), people who let women be...
View ArticleThe Neoconfederate Rotten Boroughs - Creeping Aristocracy in America
A rotten borough was a parliamentary constituency in the UK that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within the Unreformed House of...
View ArticleZombies. Neo-confederate, Evangelical Zombies (NEZ).
With all due respect to Charlie Pierce, these people aren't morons; they're zombies. They can't think, and all they want to do is make a meal out of anyone who isn't a zombie. You can't reason with...
View ArticleThe Golden Jubilee of our Gangster Nation
The JFK assassination changed America, for the worse. And, after sampling the unending cacaphony of 50th anniversary books claiming to finally "reveal the truth" or produce "new evidence" about the...
View ArticleFrom JFK to the TPP - The Long March of Structural Sociopathy
Remembering JFK for being shot is as wrong as remembering Jesus for being crucified. On this sad anniversary, we need to widen the focus from bullets and wounds and Dealey Plaza to see where the...
View ArticleAmeRICO - Connecting the Dots among Banksters, Gangsters, and Proprietary...
For me, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of JFK's murder was like pulling on a thread that unraveled the sweater of the last century of political/media bullshit in America. I have spent the last two...
View ArticleThere can be no democracy when everything is a secret
Corporations are not merely looting the public and attacking its rights, they are attacking its ability to know anything about what they are doing. The title of this diary, then, merely modernizes...
View ArticleHarvard Business Review calls bullshit on today's "capitalists"
Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism—in supporting the development of market-creating innovations. - Clayton M. Christensen and Derek van Bever, The Capitalist’s Dilemma, Harvard Business...
View ArticleWelcome to Pottersville, Massachusetts
One can only thank the clueless greed-heads now running Market Basket for their unintended remake of It's a Wonderful Life for a whole new generation. I want to acknowledge flower and magpie02141 for...
View ArticleBillions for domination, not one cent for decency.
We will spend hundreds of millions without hesitation to send weapons to Israel, military advisers to the Ukraine, non-lethal aid to the completely compromised Syrian resistance (a creature of the...
View ArticleJobs, Peace , Decency - A Progressive Platform
Progressives need to play offense. Instead, what little media visibility they are granted (e.g., MSNBC) is used up playing defense. That is, reacting to the right-wing outrage of the day - and...
View ArticleThe Military Cancer Devouring America
The corporate wing of the Democratic Party has completely given up trying to rein in the excesses of the military-intelligence-police-prisons (MIPP) complex. In the 17 years since 1997, the office of...
View Article"Koch's Angels": the 1% hire the one-percenters
American democracy has reached the level of the Polish liberum veto. Super-rich individuals, like the Koch Brothers or Sheldon Adelson, can block any political action they oppose. They do it by hiring...
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