RNN—Take a step back, earlier in ‘Listen, Liberal’ I wrote about the Clinton Foundation and what the Clinton Foundation does. I’m not talking here about the various accusations that people made of them, acting as a slush fund or that sort of thing. What I’m talking about is the way that they act as a — how would you put this– a moral exchange, for people who are quite bad. A lot of foundations do this, so my argument is that this is what liberalism is—
Monthly Archives
January 2018
HYPOCRISY WRIT LARGE: US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria
15 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Luckily, because a full scale invasion of Iran would be far more costly and deadly than the invasion of Iraq, support for this will need to be manufactured not just in America but within an entire coalition of its allies. This will be extremely difficult to do, but by God they are trying.
The Beginning Of The End Of American Empire
10 minutes readFRANK SCOTT—The growth of liberal fascism can seem an over statement, but when reactionary free market fanatics and racist foreign policy felons begin to sound thoughtful by comparison to what often passes for progressive political voices in America, it is no laughing matter.
Universalizing Resistance: To Fight Trump, Fight the System
27 minutes readCHARLES DERBER—What is the nature of this system? First of all, it’s a system of enormously concentrated economic and political power where we have 1% of the population [actually far more like 0.0001%] pretty much dominating politics and the political agenda and much of our social and economic life.
A Principle to Organize Around this Trumpian Winter: Plunder the Pentagon and Leave “Entitlements” Alone
25 minutes read
ANDREW LEVINE—This was a concern with Hillary Clinton too. Not content with wars against enemies that couldn’t fight back, she and her liberal imperialist co-thinkers were itching to antagonize “adversaries” that, as it happened, actually were armed with weapons of mass destruction. They can’t give up on that either. Watch MSNBC or CNN and see them go at it.
