Category: Politics
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Jonathan Pie
With the exception of Jon Steward, Jonathan Pie (comedian Tom Walker) is my favorite political comedian. Though I find myself laughing at his howling at British politics, that I usually don’t understand, he also covers U.S politics where his analysis is, in my opinion, spot on. The difference between Steward…
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Another Reason Why Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist: Their Bagmen
As a rule I hate billionaires. Like AOC and Bernie says, I believe they “should not exist.” But like flies and mosquitos I guess they have their place. On second thought, we definitely could live without billionaires, though professional sports would look very different. I also question the existence of…
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Baseball Fans Are Starting to Realize That the Owners Are Not Their Friends
If you peel back the curtain of professional baseball, there’s a labor battle between players and owners that has been raging for more than a century… Baseball Fans Are Starting to Realize That the Owners Are Not Their Friends
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Two of my favorite lefties meet (remotely) for the first time.
AOC in Conversation With Noam Chomsky — Jacobin I’m sharing a post from one of my favorite political magazines, Jacobin. Noam Chomsky was probably the first great dissident I discovered by myself. (I was already introduced to I. F. Stone, Howard Zinn, and others by my mentor in college the…
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Happy Thanksgiving, Pass the Smallpox Blankets
Something to chew on besides turkey. Yeah, I know I’m a stinker. Wait ’til 9/11 comes around and I post something about the CIA overthrowing Allende’s Chile on that date in 1973. I guess that’s why no one invites me to parties anymore.
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Right on Sister–ur Mother!
Yes, you should absolutely call your mom today. But you should also know that Mother’s Day isn’t just a holiday for greeting card and chocolate companies to make a buck, but of radical antiwar and feminist organizers. Women Strike for Peace activists at a Censure Nixon rally in Washington, DC,…
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all”
I ran across this article in Jacobin here on WordPress and wanted to share it. I have always enjoyed Oscar Wilde’s work but didn’t know he wrote a political essay supporting socialism. It just made the top of my Goodreads list! To some degree, it makes sense that he would…
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