Crisis of Capitalism
RSA – Ideas and Actions for a 21st Century Enlightenment Uh-oh, it’s a marxist analysis. Hey, can Marx have things figured out correctly from time to time? Thanks to Austin K for passing this...
Washington Liberals Blog
Quickie: I want the Democrats to win, so ….
(Editor’s note. With this posting, we introduce “quickies”: short blurbs or summaries that are quick to read and — hopefully — dense in content. Links to interesting external content also count as quickies. Often...
Shared Sacrifice My Ass Regatta – This Sunday at Seward Park, Seattle 11:30am
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shared Sacrifice My Ass Regatta! This Sunday at Seward Park, Seattle 11:30am. View Map Bring your voice, your dancing shoes, inner tubes watercraft to join the flotilla. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember the Target Ain’t People...
Double Dip Anyone?
The stock market continues to be on a roller coaster ride as it slides and then rebounds as traders engage in fishing the bottom and making trading commissions, sliding a few bucks out of...
The Adam Smith hardly anyone knows
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Quotes-economics.htm The Adam Smith that everyone knows: Every individual… intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which...
The Only Real Solution to our Economic Problems is Active Democracy
In a recent article in the Los Angeles Time, economist James Galbraith argues that “Stimulus Alone was Never going to bring Recovery.†See http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-galbraith-economics-20110815,0,843976.story I agree in part with his solution: “Let’s build a...
Reality-challenged GOP presidential candidates
What’s going on with the Republican Party? Their candidates keep getting further and further out in right field. The Tea Party libertarians are more extreme than typical Republicans in their opposition to government and...
Two Seattle-area events on Thursday: stop Reichert, protect Medicare & Social Security
Why is it that conservatives have been able to escape accountability for their inhumane priorities? That’s starting to change. Soup Kitchen at Dave Reichert’s office Norm Conrad of MoveOn reports that on Thursday the...
On Doing Better Than 50%, Or, Could More “Made In USA†Mean More Jobs?
We gotta grow some jobs, and that’s a fact, and we probably aren’t going to be able to do it with big ol’ jobs programs funded by the Federal Government, what with today’s politics...
An unholy alliance is strangling Uncle Sam
Be scared. Be very scared. [Graphic: Uncle Sam being drowned in a bathtub, with five hands choking his throat] An alliance in the Republican Party has a stranglehold on the US political system. The...