The True Shadow Government

                                                     The Military-Industrial-Complex.

The New York Times

                                         Tries, yet again, to naturalize its politics.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | "Peace and Diplomacy" Speech

Lord What Fools These Liberals Be!

The Democratic Party needs an insurgency from the Left to displace Biden or Trump will be sworn in January 2025 from some cushy minimum security prison and we'll be back to the Theater of the Absurd. What Trump has going for him is that he offers something other than politics as usual--which much of the electorate (rightly) can no longer abide. The problem is that he's Trump. The DNC thinks they can take that to the bank. They thought the same in 2016. Were Shakespeare alive today the line would be: "Lord what fools these Liberals be!"

Is Biden Overconfident?

                                                             Or is the game rigged?

"I've Never Regretted Doing It."

                                                     DANIEL ELLSBERG.

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr On Covid, Ukraine, Border, Nuclear Power And MORE

Duh

 

A first-of-its-kind study from Jacobin, YouGov, and the Center for Working-Class Politics finds that economic populism can help progressives win more working-class voters.

The One Thing Trump Is Good For: A Few Laughs

 

Without A Vision, The People Perish

This article succinctly describes the hollowness of Neoliberalism and offers a persuasive explanation as to why Donald Trump is not--as he should be by now--Donald Who? When the Democratic Party made its Faustian bargain with Bill Clinton in 1992 and sold its soul to Neoliberalism for power, it betrayed not only what was left of the American Left but each and every one of us. Four more years of Joe Biden? Without a vision, the people perish.

The America That Could Have Been...

                                         But for the Military-Industrial-Complex.

Liberalism = Inverted Totalitarianism

                                                             WAKE UP!

Liberal Politics vs. Principled Politics

Edmund Wilson told John Dos Passos that he never regarded himself as a liberal, "because the word does not mean anything definite." Wilson was right (as usual) and his remark exposes a very real problem with contemporary Liberalism. 

Liberals have sentimental attachments to a set of broad concepts including "freedom" and "equality" which, though laudable, can mean many different and even contradictory things depending on context. 

Self-styled liberals ought to be able to set aside their sentimental attachments to certain words and examine those words critically and in historical context. Were they to do that they would see, e.g., that the liberal Barack Obama's drone war in the Yemen and record-setting sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia were proximate causes of one of the worst humanitarian disasters in living memory. 

A politics grounded in principle and informed by historical research (or just paying attention to the news) recognizes how meaningless the definition of "liberal" has become and besides, as Howard Zinn put it, "there's no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." Sentimental attachments get in the way of clear thinking and moral reasoning. Though liberals believe themselves to be on the side of the angels, they are, as the Black Agenda Report has noted, "traitors to the millions of people who want to see progressive change in this country."

Criticizing Marx

                                                     First step: Do your homework.

Why America Needs A Left

                                                                 Eli Zaretsky.

NY Socialists Crack Down

                                                             On Israeli war crimes.