Link to an article by Jason Hirthler:
Tag: Politics
Rob Urie – How NAFTA Killed the Green New Deal
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“How NAFTA Killed the Green New Deal”
Bonus links:“Climate Change Is Class War” and “Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy”
Paul Le Blanc – Today’s Struggle for a Green New Deal
Link to an article by Paul Le Blanc:
“Today’s Struggle for a Green New Deal: Lessons from the Freedom Budget of the 1960s”
Bonus links: “What the New Deal Can Teach us About Winning a Green New Deal: Part I” and “What the New Deal Can Teach Us About Winning a Green New Deal: Part III—the First New Deal” and “System Change, Class War, and the WW2 Economic Conversion Experience” and “When the FBI Targeted the Poor People’s Campaign”
Michael Hudson – U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses
Link to an article by Michael Hudson:
Jessica Goldstein – The ‘Feel-Good’ Horror of Late-Stage Capitalism
Link to an article by Jessica Goldstein:
“The ‘Feel-Good’ Horror of Late-Stage Capitalism”
Bonus links: The Trouble With Diversity and “Democracy is the Enemy” and “The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism”
Rob Urie – The Blob Fought the Squad, and the Squad Won
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
Russell Mokhiber – Kip Sullivan and Dr. Matthew Hahn on How Value Based Programs Are Undermining Medicare and Single Payer
Link to an interview (with transcript) conducted by Russell Mokhiber:
Nicholas Freudenberg – The Capitalist Diet
Link to a review by Nicholas Freudenberg of Gerardo Otero’s book The Neoliberal Diet: Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People (2018):
“The Capitalist Diet: Energy-dense and Profitable”
Bonus link: “Nick Freudenberg on the Corporation the Individual and Public Health” – though his invocation of liberal pluralism along the lines of the FCC’s old “fairness doctrine” is subject to criticism and probably still isn’t sufficient.
David McAllister – BBC Panorama Hatchet Job on Labour Antisemitism is a Farce
Link to an article by David McAllister:
“BBC Panorama Hatchet Job on Labour Antisemitism is a Farce”
Bonus links: “For the First Time in My Life, I’m Frightened to be Jewish” and gaslighting and concern trolling
Rob Urie – Toward an Eco-Socialist Revolution
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Toward an Eco-Socialist Revolution”
There are many reasons to question the proffered solution here, which would be unpopular and prone to the all the problems that have historically accompanied peasant societies (rigid social hierarchies, etc.). Still, this article thinks seriously about real issues and the necessary scope of solutions, and actually ventures to offer a solution.