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In light of Obama’s disturbing and even a little wacko remarks after his latest revenue  fold, in which he manically assured us that he’s always willing to go even further down the compromise road, and that dancing to the bankers’ … Continue reading →

The sale of Al Gore’s Current TV’s to Al-Jazeera. Great statement, in any case, by Current CEO Joel Hyatt “When considering the several suitors who were interested in acquiring Current, it became clear to us that Al Jazeera was founded … Continue reading →

Norman Solomon at CommonDreams.org: “President Obama is no longer the alternative to prevent a GOP takeover of the presidency. He goes into his last term as the leader exerting immense leverage that continues to move the Democratic Party—and the frame … Continue reading →

Robert Borsage from the Campaign for America’s Future tells you why.

about how to use leverage in a negotiation,’ said Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy organization. ‘Republicans publicly admitted they lost the tax debate and would be forced to cave, yet the president … Continue reading →

That the next four years may be a question of progressives needing to mobilize to oppose Obama’s caving and collusion as much as it confronts the Republicans’ nihilist belief in demolishing what had made this country viable.

So rather than let myself dwell on current political events, I’ll just sit back and let Dr. Krugman in the Times say it for me. The President: “kept drawing lines in the sand, then erasing them and retreating to a … Continue reading →

And that means there’s sensitive analysis on its way.  For the Wall Street Journal, Laura Jacobs palpates the Diana Vreeland touch.

George Jackson wrote with some additional thoughts on the entrechats/brises conundrum I discussed in my Ballet Review piece on the Paris Opera’s Giselle. “Albrecht’s Act 2 solo: entrechats were standard (Dolin, Franklin, Lifar, Zoritch, Eglevsky, Youskevitch, Fernandez, Bruhn et al,) … Continue reading →

“David PA” at Dailykos.com pays tribute: Krugman “pulls back the veil and shines the light of reality on the mainstream-spewed debt/deficit nonsense.”