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Here is a pragmatic view of the Obama Tax cut deal. I’m inclined to agree with Mr. Lyons and my friend Victor who said Obama caved but that he moved the Republicans, in the bipartisan direction: the economic fate of millions of Americans and their families were most assuredly on the President’s mind and conscious when he made this decision. Even as a person on the left, the question must be the question of the welfare of our fellow citizens: even if we can argue that this is the result of political incompetence, timidity or miscalculation or that the Obama’s administration is, in sum, a maladroitly staged, and choreographed Clinton Restoration. The President got what he could; an exercise in the art of politics- the art of the possible!
For those who think that the Republican Machine will destroy Mr. Obama; take a look at this pathetic collection of sclerotic old white guys, that is the Republican Party of 2010. Their hubris is evident and the Tea Party Jacobins are ideological purists, that look upon the political as corrupt, prima facie, so the art of compromise is utterly out of reach, as a matter of ordinary pragmatism. Managing these anti-political purists will become a full time job for the Boehner/McConnell axis.The Jacobins will not have one iota of a problem breaking the eleventh commandment, of another decade of Republican resurgence.

“Seldom have so few gotten so much from so many.” That might be the motto of President Bush’s proposed tax cuts. Continue reading →

 

December 08, 2010

Aristotle, Parmenides and Becoming God

With all the new translations and textbooks coming out on the list lately, I haven’t had a chance to blog about our monograph publishing for a while. Continue reading →

Every one of us owes a debt to Julian Assange. Thanks to him, we now know that our governments are pursuing policies that place you and your family in considerably greater danger. It’s only because of his leaks that we know the US government has secretly launched war on yet another Muslim country, sanctioned torture, kidnapped innocent people from the streets of free countries and intimidated the police into hushing it up, and covered up the killing of 15,000 civilians — five times the number killed on 9/11. Each one of these acts has increased the number of jihadis. We can only change these policies if we know about them — and Assange has given us the black-and-white proof. Continue reading →

I am Julian Assange.

I want information so that I can hold my government accountable. If my country acts improperly and in my name, I want the proof. I want to know if there actually is no evidence proving weapons of mass destruction. I want to know if America is working with Israel to overthrow Iran’s leadership. I want data that has not been spun by reporters that work for publishers and broadcasters with political and business goals that conflict with the facts. I want to know. Continue reading →