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William Peffer. US Senator. Populist Party 1890 A major third party fractures on whether to stay independent and radical or merge with the Democrats and try to push them to the left. No, this wasn’t factions in the Green Party in 1996-2004, but the Populist Party in 1896. Well then, this particular debate [...] From the amazing Democracy School subsite at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund The Agrarian Populist Movement was the largest people’s struggle for democracy in U.S. history. After the Civil War, with the demise of the Slave State and the rise of the Corporate State, capital became increasingly concentrated and farmers across the continent [...] From the Missouri State University online collection of populist cartoons of Worth Robert Miller, who has assembled a huge online resource about US populism. Populists claimed that Democratic and Republican politicians agitated meaningless issues, such as tariff revision, in demagogic attempts to divert people’s attention from the real problems that producers faced. Notice where [...] The populists of the 1890′s arose in response to the Robber Baron excesses of that Gilded Age of robbery and plunder by a few against the many – an era quite a lot like ours. Update the language in their 1892 platform, and it could be written about our current times. The conditions which [...] Dylan Ratigan’s ‘The Cost of Corporate Communism‘ has appeared all over the net recently. He hosts MSNBC’s ‘Morning Meeting’ and uses ‘corporate communism’ to ‘describe the ruling-elite corporate/financial EMPIRE that has taken over our country’ as an OPEdNews diary puts it. The massive spike in unemployment, the utter destruction of retirement wealth, the [...] Returning battle-hardened veterans from WWII took matters into their own hands after a viciously corrupt election in Athens, TN in 1946 enforced by violence and intimidation by police against the veteran’s slate of candidates. There were 200 armed “deputies” at the voting booths. One deputy shot a African-American man trying to vote. Poll watchers [...] This awesome rant howls about the cluelessness of liberals moaning about health care while wars rage and elites plunder the economy. This also, I must add, includes the maddeningly comatose behavior of the radical left who during this massive crisis of capitalism has been doing precisely nothing. (I’m not sure who the author is, [...] All the ballot propositions were defeated except for F (which limits pay raises for state officials). The budget train wreck continues. Make no mistake, this was a voter revolt. And it was across the board. As mentioned before, both the right wing Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Foundation and the Peace and Freedom Party, the only [...] Reader KN in the comments to my John Rich “They’re Shutting Detroit Down” post refers to a World Socialist Web Site article on Rich, saying it has an interesting take on the song. I’d say it takes a standard doctrinaire Marxist view, which is that since Rich is right wing all this must be suspect [...] Who controls the country? The government or Wall Street? That answer will determine the ferocity of the populism. John Robb Viral violence incoming. As this NYTimes article points out, the public is actively targeting AIG execs. Death threats have resulted in armed guards posted at the company’s offices and at executive mansions. The Big [...] |  | ||||
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