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Naked Capitalism has a long, thoughtful piece titled Progressively losing by Richard Kline pondering why liberals and progressives are so ineffective. He explores the history of the left, explodes some myths about the right, then basically concludes that liberals and progressives have no fire in the belly. I would go further than that. Most [...] “You need to restore economic growth, not five years from now, you need to restore it today” Roubini said. “In the short term, we need to do massive stimulus, otherwise there’s going to be another Great Depression. Things are getting worse and the big difference between now and a few years ago is that this [...] Peter Camejo, The Avocado Declaration History shows that the Democrats and Republicans are not two counterpoised forces, but rather complementary halves of a single two-party system: “one animal with two heads that feed from the same trough,” as Chicano leader Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez explained. Since the Civil War a peculiar two-party political system has dominated [...] The Green Party’s national convention was this past weekend and my absolute favorite candidate in the country this year – the election is November 2011 – gave an inspiring speech there, introduced by David Cobb. The quote in the title is from that speech, as are those below. The full video is posted below, as [...] Carville unloads on Obama It’s pretty remarkable that the next election is going to boil down to a competition between the 2008 Republican presidential candidate and his vice presidential nominee. Obama being the 2012 Democrat equivalent of McCain and the Republican challenger being someone like Palin. It’s not that Obama is a socialist [...] I love the ‘US out of Vermont’ slogan on the guy on the left and the rest of the cartoon made me laugh too. But it got me thinking, tactics on the left haven’t changed much since Dylan’s early days, have they? Back then it was civil rights marches. A few years later the [...] This was done specifically as a protest against Federal Reserve policy. Further, sales of bullion are now exempt from state capital gains tax in Utah. At least eleven other states are considering similar laws. This is a populist revolt, no question about it. Will the Feds try to stop it? We shall see. [...] Things in this country are building up to an explosion, says Doug Casey. Stephen Jay Gould was right with his concept of punctuated equilibrium in terms of geological history. Basically, it holds that things progress very slowly for long periods of time, then evolve very quickly after some catastrophic event upsets the balance. At [...] Their leader Timo Siino explains why in the WSJ. Their nationalist Euro-skeptic party recently made big gains in Finland. To understand the real nature and purpose of the bailouts, we first have to understand who really benefits from them. Let’s follow the money. At the risk of being accused of populism, we’ll begin with the obvious: [...] |  | ||||
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