Perry Bacon, Jr. writes in The Washington Post that:
“The cancellation of Mehdi Hasan’s show is the latest in a series of recent moves by MSNBC that are pushing the network in the direction of being the television arm of the Democratic Party leadership, as opposed to a news outlet that upholds left-wing values and perspectives. The network should reverse its decision on Hasan and make clear that it embraces progressive criticism of President Biden and other Democratic leaders.”
Reich, one of the few sagacious economic advisors to Clinton, recalls the time he made Clinton’s team very angry.
Reich publicly predicted the rise of Trump three decades ago–and if Hillary really, really wants to know why she lost, she might factor in resentment over her husband’s indifference to radical levels of inequality. Did Hillary renounce any single plank of Clintonism? No, she told us that racism and sexism had nothing to do with structural economic factors.
Bill Clinton ignored Reich and listened instead to the likes of self-dealing plutocrats like Sandy Weill, repealing the Glass-Steagal act and making inevitable the 2008 collapse. Then, when Obama saved the banksters and abandoned the foreclosed, the countdown to Trump began.
aamid both the right wing’s attempt to expurgate the true history of race in this country as well as the left’s assailing the Western canon as well as the across-the-board cultural illiteracy that plagues our society as well as the American penchant for historical amnesia.
“A people which loses contact with its past becomes culturally psychotic.” — Dwight MacDonald.
“We got rid of them.”
Dialogue from the ever-pertinent pen of Mr. Beckett in “Waiting for Godot.”
They’re intent on gutting a food aid program on which America’s infants depend.
The corporate media is committing journalistic malpractice by letting these people pick any moniker they choose and then adopting it, thus enabling the sham they’re committing.
A sign of the derangement of Trumpworld: these two undoubtedly appearance conscious women have taken to mimic his grotesque grimaces and pouts, apparently unaware of how ludicrous and unattractive it turns their features and expressions.
Julia Conley at Common Dreams reports on yet another shocking but not surprising Ivy act of dishonor–think Yale firing Dr. Bandy Lee–Columbia has suspended the campus chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine.
Admirably, many alum are saying no more donations until Columbia reverses course, while 200 faculty staked a walk out to protest. Rather than accept their petition, Columbia’s president locked them out of his lair at Low Library.
Questions:
How does President Biden reconcile his religious beliefs with his countenancing of genocide?
Can’t Israeli get off the Netanyahu extinction carousel? Every action he takes is guaranteed to bring home more terrorism. He is a disaster on both the realpolitik as well as morality fronts.
For Air Mail, I wrote a preview/review of Dianne Wiest’s return to the New York stage in “Scene Partners.”
The corporate media decides on a story line—this time, it’s Biden’s age that’s the big issue—rather than the existential danger of treasonous psychotic Donald J. Trump. The CM hammers home the story line relentlessly. And then—imagine that!—polls start to show the public falling into line. CM talking heads then try to report with a straight face that these polls are actual news.
when they came under attack from Russia.
So what are Russia and Hungary doing? Teaming up to build more of them. Totalitarian energy policy at its worst.
The Biden administration has got to stop going along with the charade that nuclear power is safe, clean, or a solution to global warming. Nuclear power plants can’t even operate in extreme heat, when they are at particular danger of melting down.
