Link to an article by David Cromwell:
“‘Bullying’: BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment”
Tag: Politics
Alex Gourevitch – Our Forgotten Labor Revolution
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Touré F. Reed – Why Liberals Separate Race from Class
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David Cay Johnston – 21 Questions For Donald Trump
Link to an article by David Cay Johnston:
“21 Questions For Donald Trump”
Johnston is an annoying “grandstander” but no doubt Trump had some shady business dealings.
Bonus links: “Why Donald Trump Is so Scary,” “Republican Machismo vs Hillary Clinton” and “The Spectacle of American Violence and the Cure for Donald Trump” and “The Rich Boy: the Art of Trump L’Oeil Politics” and “Why Donald Trump is (Mostly) Right About the Middle East”
Jonah Birch – The Many Lives of François Mitterrand
Link to an article by Jonah Birch:
“The Many Lives of François Mitterrand”
Quote:
“the political power of the capitalist class flows not just from what capital can do, but from what it can choose not to do — invest. It is its control over the investment function, not its collective organizations, that is the key source of capitalists’ power in the political sphere: since, in a capitalist economy, investment is the prerequisite for growth, employment, and tax revenue, policymakers will always have an incentive to prioritize the demands of business confidence over all other considerations.”
Peter Rugh – Turning Libraries Into Condos
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Sarah Jaffe – Activists in Ferguson Broaden Scope, Unveil “Power Behind the Police”
Link to an article by Sarah Jaffe:
“Activists in Ferguson Broaden Scope, Unveil ‘Power Behind the Police'”
Bonus links: “A Long Time for Killing” and “The Politics of Mass Incarceration”
Jason Hickel – The Problem with Saving the World
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Christopher Brauchli – The Jump-Up-and-Down Congress
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Christos Tsiolkas – Greek Tragedy
Link to an article by Christos Tsiolkas:
“Greek Tragedy: Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s Economic Crisis”
Bonus links: “The Defeat of Europe” (“Whatever one thinks of our government, this episode will go down in European history as the moment when official Europe, using institutions and methods that no treaty legitimised (the Eurogroup, the Euro Summit, the threat of eviction from the eurozone), dealt a major blow to the ideal of an ever-closer democratic union. Greece capitulated, but it is Europe that was defeated.”) and “Europe’s Big Banks are Fueling the Continent’s Far-Right Fascists”