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Bret repeats the Trump Party Line: While: For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers- real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ ______________________________________________________________ Income Inequality in the United States Gaps in earnings between America’s most affluent and the rest of the country … Continue reading →

Headline: Hobson, Corbyn and antisemitic tropes Sub-headline: It troubles me that scholars are teaching Hobson’s Imperialism without flagging the antisemitic dimensions of his thought or contextualizing it appropriately, says Abigail Green In its concerted campaign to defame Jeremy Corbyn, The Guardian … Continue reading →

Headline: How to get rid of Nicolás Maduro Sub-headline: An attempt to depose the dictator appears to have failed. Try again The Posh Boys paraphrase both John Bolton and Mike Pompeo: John Bolton, America’s national security adviser, said on April … Continue reading →

Headline: Joe Biden would offer US voters a welcome breather Sub-headline: Americans tend not to elect several high-drama presidents in a row If Mr. Biden has ‘friends’ like … ? Here Mr. Ganesh defines Biden for what he is: He is, … Continue reading →

Here is an actual Antisemitic cartoon from Julius Streicher’s Der Stürmer. And note, if the cartoon you were shrieking about were Antisemitic, Netanyahu would have had Trump by a leash, and BiBi would not have looked like a cute puppy … Continue reading →

Before Andy Divine’s latest attack on the political monster he helped to create, Trump, sinks into the shit-hole of a well deserved obscurity, some observations: Andy scours the internet for his  “to appease an angry king”  as his most recent descriptor … Continue reading →

“The previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America,” Mr. Rosenstein said. He left unmentioned that Republican congressional leaders urged … Continue reading →

The bumptious Canadian Frontiersman Jordan Peterson has become the latest, in a long line of moral/political reactionaries, defending the waning power of the ubiquitous White Male, and his ebbing control over the lesser beings of the planet. It is no … Continue reading →

Headline:Voters’ capacity for being appalled by Trump is waning Sub-headline: The Democrats should think hard about public tolerance for impeachment proceedings Bravo, Mr. Ganesh!for such a collection of observations beginning and ending with Bertolt Brecht and the East German One … Continue reading →

Is the eventual metamorphosis of Mr. West to be a combination of Gore Vidal’s ‘Kalki’ , script writer Bud Schulberg and director Elia Kazan’s ‘A Face in the Crowd’, with a just a bit of Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’? Mr. … Continue reading →