Ridiculous things you say to pooties and woozles
A rambling diary that's barely a diary, about nothing of particular relevance...When this old world starts to getting me down, and people are just too much for me to take, I turn to my cat and my dog....
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Global Warming, Islam, and the US: Flashpoint Bangladesh?
Bangladesh, in grave danger from rising watersBring up global warming and my mind turns to Bangladesh. What other nation finds so many people, so poor, so under the thumb of a money-grubbing elite,...
View ArticleEcuador to US: keep your trade, and here's $23 million for Human Rights...
From Reuters comes news that the government of Ecuador has unilaterally waived trade rights with the United States, rejecting accusations that US threats to end a favorable trade deal were the reason...
View ArticleGood Morning, White Privilege
I experienced white privilege this morning.It came to me without my seeking it, just as it will come to you if you are white, and you will benefit from it whether you want to or not. White privilege is...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Toward a Leftist Program for Working Class Consciousness
The original title of this diary was to be "Toward a Leftist Program by the Working Class, for the Working Class", an neat, academic-sounding title reflecting an admirable goal: how can we, whatever...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: What's Really Behind US-Cuba Normalization?
A spectre is haunting the United States--the spectre of normal relations between the United States and communist bugbear Cuba. For the lazy, captured US media, it's all about the Cold War poses struck...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: When a Socialist Becomes the Boss
It wasn't that hard when I was a grunt. As long as my job was constructive, something that made the world suck less, a regular job was OK. I was a working class guy, the Man was the Man, and never the...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Anti-Capitalism and Immigration
There can be no doubt that the behavior of international capital is a major driver of immigration. Looking outward from the US alone, capital has long been at play in Mexico, Central America, and the...
View ArticleI'm Not A Real Democrat
I was a real Democrat for over 30 years, starting with the 1980 campaign. I even worked for Jimmy Carter after being disappointed by Ted Kennedy’s loss, purist that I am.But now I’m not.I couldn’t...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Defending "Revolution"
Look around the US political blogosphere lately and you’ll notice a fashion for the use of the word “revolution”. As we know, the word usually means a dramatic and fundamental change in social and...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: The Revolutionary Class Of The Future
Cross posted to caucus99percent.The desire for revolution lives at the beating heart of anti-capitalism. There may be differing visions of how that revolution will be conducted and on exactly whose...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Thoughts On The Power of Capital and The Course of...
The 2016 election season grinds on, and in keeping with the mode of the last two-and-a-half decades, the bourgeois media deport themselves like Tiger Beat for ugly rich people.Dominated by...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Revolutionary Violence: A Matter of Practicality
When you mention revolution, most people’s thoughts tend to scenarios that begin with pitchforks, proceed to guillotines, and end up in the Gulag. No doubt there are revolutions that have ended badly,...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: About that realignment...
I’ve heard talk that a political realignment in this country may be in the offing, result of the breakdown of the alliance between social conservatives, right-populists, and the part of big business...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: A Socialist Works "Welfare"
I am part of the welfare apparatus of a populous older state east of the Mississippi River. This state comprises an historic and diverse metropolis that is a showplace of economic inequality and...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Alienation is a Weapon.
Anti-Capitalism and the challenge to rule by money.One of the main tasks of Anti-Capitalism is to recognize and expose the methods capital uses to block the majority from full, democratic participation...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Democratic Elite: Clue? What clue?
Is there a Pantheon for hubris and denial?If so, Nancy Pelosi’s December 4th Face the Nation interview offers us a brilliant new candidate for admission: DICKERSON: The Democratic party is in a moment...
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Red Roses for a Blue Lady
When I heard, I thought it was a clever parody. No one could possibly be that craven. But Kos has been trying to “crash the gates” of the Democratic elite for well over a decade now without...
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