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Greg Sargent in the Washington Post describes the rejection of common sense in today’s governance, occasioned by the Congressional Progressive Caucus offering a budget proposal that actually conforms to empirical need: “No plan that prioritizes job creation as the best … Continue reading →

Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian: “The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt.”

Harry Reid’s wimpishness on filibuster reform — with bipartisan deals like this, three cheers for partishanship!–if only the Dems knew how to practice it. Reid handed Republicans another cudgel with which to demolish any government function that benefits anyone other than … Continue reading →

In the Columbia Journalism Review, David Cay Johnston runs the numbers on the true dimensions of the United States’s military spending (hint: it’s the first thing the self-styled “deficit hawks” would be vetting if they were serious).  And Johnston also is frank … Continue reading →

John Atcheson at Common dreams. org poses “political imponderables”: “If Republicans really hate deficits, why did the last three Republican Presidents run up more than 66% of the nation’s cumulative deficit  – more than all other Presidents combined?  And why … Continue reading →

On the New York Times “Opinionator” Erin Hatton describes “The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy.”

Robert Reich on his blog skewers deadbeats like Pete Peterson as they keep gassing on about the sacrifices “we”—everyone, of course but the rich and the super-duper rich–must make. Reich reminds us that “The richest 400 Americans have more wealth than … Continue reading →

Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian finds it “remarkable, as I’ve noted before on this holiday, how completely his vehement anti-war advocacy is ignored when commemorating his life (just as his economic views are). By King’s own description, his work against US … Continue reading →

Truthout.com flags the way FAIR spotlights a grotesque spectacle in which “well-to-do pundits piously argue that the poor and the elderly should sacrifice retirement benefits or pay more for health care as they age.”

In The New York Times’s Opiononator blog: “Children in other rich countries like Canada, France, Germany and Sweden have a better chance of doing better than their parents did than American kids have.”    It’s rather rare in today’s “mainstream” commercial media to … Continue reading →