Newsweek, Niall Ferguson, And The Conservative Echo Chamber “Niall Ferguson’s Newsweek cover story on President Obama exemplifies a deficiency in today’s media. As criticism of Ferguson’s shoddy work mounted — both from outside and inside of Newsweek/The Daily Beast — Newsweek explained to Politico‘s Dylan Byers that Newsweek “rel[ies] on our writers to submit factually…
Right wing religious folk are interfering in the political process with their superstitious, regressive, dangerous views. Their support for Republicans is destroying the country and possibly our environment, causing disastrous wars, corruption, torture, economic injustice, climate-change denial, attacks on science, attacks on women’s rights, etc, etc. Reasonable people need to fight back. One way to…
Austin K sent this link along in an email this morning. It’s a couple of years old, but it’s still worth sharing and reading. The links go to interesting websites if you have an open mind about politics, which is to say, that you can imagine political positions that are broader than the republican and…
South King County Progressives Fascist Ass Kick’n Party-Aug 26th South King County Progressives Sunday, August 26, 2012 3:00 PM Kent Library 212 2nd Avenue N Kent, WA 98032 For more info, contact Brian Gunn at gunnbl – at – comcast dot net .
Doesn’t Mitt, aka Willard, drone on….?  Maybe, his symbol should be The DRONE! Listen again and tell me what you think.  Willard, after all, has this in common : he flies high, he cloaks his maneuvers, he operates vehicle(s) – safely from afar – that bring ruin to many, he bloviates steadily like a prop engine….
“It’s a scary time to be involved with radical class struggle. But was it ever any other way?” Austin Kelly suggests you scan this one from LibCom.org: An interview conducted with two members of St Louis libertarian group, Autonomy Alliance. While in St. Louis, I was lucky enough to stay with…
Bain Documents: Romney Offshore Investments Used ‘Blockers’ To Avoid Taxes The private equity firm founded by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made use of arcane techniques in several of its Cayman Islands-based funds to avoid U.S. taxes, according to a trove of Bain Capital’s private audit and finance records made public on the website Gawker…
“I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country, i have taken that postion since the time my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 US senate canidate in 1970, i also believe since Roe V Wade has been the law of the land for 20 years we should sustain and…
Michael D. Higgins, the president of Ireland, tears into the Tea Party and its policies: You can listen to the full interview here.
Austin Kelly sent along this link. This article makes a number of arguments about the direction the IWW should take in its organizing, including taking a longer-term perspective than the next few years. Winning the War of Position: Working-Class Hegemony and Class Unionism by B.C. It is readily apparent to any working-class person that the…