WTO Imposes Suicide: Ben Norton: Salon
NeoCon Failure Is Success: William Lind: American Conservative
Over Before It Starts: John Robb: Global Guerrillas
Trumponomics: Ian Welsh
TrumpCon: Matt Taibbi: Rolling Stone
Bernie Sucks!: Shane Ryan: Paste
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Links
FBI Winning The Last War: John Robb: Global Guerrillas
Wrong On WTC, Right About The Rest?: Paul Craig Roberts
Right On The Economy: Paul Craig Roberts: Counter Punch
Irredeemable Democrats: Chris Hedges
It's A Pretty Good T Shirt: Bruce Dixon: Black Agenda Report
The Sweep Of Things: Lord Keynes: Social Democracy 21C
Tragicomic Relief: Umberto Eco:NYROB
Wrong On WTC, Right About The Rest?: Paul Craig Roberts
Right On The Economy: Paul Craig Roberts: Counter Punch
Irredeemable Democrats: Chris Hedges
It's A Pretty Good T Shirt: Bruce Dixon: Black Agenda Report
The Sweep Of Things: Lord Keynes: Social Democracy 21C
Tragicomic Relief: Umberto Eco:NYROB
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Links
Friday, February 19, 2016
Cognitive Dissonance At NYT
How can the Times run this and this at the same time? Temperatures are higher everywhere by larger deltas than most climate models have predicted and yet we must double down on the exact policies and prescriptions that have caused this incipient disaster. Something has to change and something big, not in 4 to 8 to 16 years, but now. And the one candidate who is proposing this kind of change is "unrealistic". This is suicidal delusion.
Krugman lists his allies in defending the left flank of the NeoLiberal consensus in criticizing the "unrealistic" proposals by Sanders focusing on the demographics of an aging American work force. Each of them is part of the New Democrat consensus that justified dismanteling the New Deal under an earlier Clinton who think that somehow the middle class will magically heal if we continue the policies that have destroyed it along with the environment.
With regard to the demographic argument on which Very Serious Paul focuses, I'm getting close to being one of those over 65ers. The position that old people won't be in the labor force from a man who supports politicians who think Social Security benefits should be pushed out beyond 65 is just more cognitive dissonance: our 401s have been shredded to feed Wall Street, our homes used to "foam the runways" for fraudsters Paul's friends at the Fed backstopped, our incomes reduced and our SS benefits inflated away so I bloody well hope there is a strong job market for geezers like me when I get over 65 because I'm disinclined to move into the toxic sacrifice zones my "pension" will afford me.
There is a profound misunderstanding of the scope and nature of the problems our society faces that are simply invisible from the coddled lives of people like Very Serious Paul. They equally misunderstand the reality of resource availability to fix such problems. A society that can afford 29 trillion dollars to bail out Wall Street while fighting multiple overseas wars can feed, educate, house and look after the health of its people. To the extent that it does not, to the extent that it locks them up, drugs them, under educates and under employs them, it is dismantling its own capacity to support its future. This is what we are up against, we have become ouroborous, consuming our own body.
Krugman lists his allies in defending the left flank of the NeoLiberal consensus in criticizing the "unrealistic" proposals by Sanders focusing on the demographics of an aging American work force. Each of them is part of the New Democrat consensus that justified dismanteling the New Deal under an earlier Clinton who think that somehow the middle class will magically heal if we continue the policies that have destroyed it along with the environment.
With regard to the demographic argument on which Very Serious Paul focuses, I'm getting close to being one of those over 65ers. The position that old people won't be in the labor force from a man who supports politicians who think Social Security benefits should be pushed out beyond 65 is just more cognitive dissonance: our 401s have been shredded to feed Wall Street, our homes used to "foam the runways" for fraudsters Paul's friends at the Fed backstopped, our incomes reduced and our SS benefits inflated away so I bloody well hope there is a strong job market for geezers like me when I get over 65 because I'm disinclined to move into the toxic sacrifice zones my "pension" will afford me.
There is a profound misunderstanding of the scope and nature of the problems our society faces that are simply invisible from the coddled lives of people like Very Serious Paul. They equally misunderstand the reality of resource availability to fix such problems. A society that can afford 29 trillion dollars to bail out Wall Street while fighting multiple overseas wars can feed, educate, house and look after the health of its people. To the extent that it does not, to the extent that it locks them up, drugs them, under educates and under employs them, it is dismantling its own capacity to support its future. This is what we are up against, we have become ouroborous, consuming our own body.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Links
Your Theory Is Wrong: Steven Waldman: Interfluidity
The Openings It Leaves: M K Bhadrakumar: Indian Punchline
Meanwhile In Syria: The Twisted Genius: Sic Semper Tyrannis
NATO Misleadership: Graham E. Fuller
Our Robotic Future: John Robb: Global Guerillas
Debating Bush: Daniel Larison: The American Conservative
Pragmatic Sanders: Christopher Cook: The Atlantic
The Openings It Leaves: M K Bhadrakumar: Indian Punchline
Meanwhile In Syria: The Twisted Genius: Sic Semper Tyrannis
NATO Misleadership: Graham E. Fuller
Our Robotic Future: John Robb: Global Guerillas
Debating Bush: Daniel Larison: The American Conservative
Pragmatic Sanders: Christopher Cook: The Atlantic
Monday, February 15, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Friday, January 29, 2016
Afghanistan Links
Obama has been playing footsie with the NeoCons since he got into the White House. It's my opinion that the current gambit in Afghanistan, such as it is, is dazzle camouflage to keep NeoCon eyes off the consolidation of the Iran deal. The Iran deal is transformative and has already started seizmic shifts in the region. Afghanistan can and will never lead to any significant benefit for real American interests.
I believe, and time will tell, the Afghan policies discussed in these links are candy thrown to the MIC to placate it while consolidating in the Middle East a more realistic set of policies than we've seen since before the Carter Administration. These policies make space for the realities of apparently successful Russian intervention in Syria and the growing inability of our domestic propaganda apparatus to conceal the US/Saudi/Israeli/ISIS nexus. He has done this by simply saying "look over there!!!" A generational commitment by a lame duck President in an election year...
Obamastan? M K Bhadrakumar: Indian Punchline
Grave Of Empires: b: Moon Of Alabama
Really That Stupid?: Patrick Lang: Sic Semper Tyrannis
I believe, and time will tell, the Afghan policies discussed in these links are candy thrown to the MIC to placate it while consolidating in the Middle East a more realistic set of policies than we've seen since before the Carter Administration. These policies make space for the realities of apparently successful Russian intervention in Syria and the growing inability of our domestic propaganda apparatus to conceal the US/Saudi/Israeli/ISIS nexus. He has done this by simply saying "look over there!!!" A generational commitment by a lame duck President in an election year...
Obamastan? M K Bhadrakumar: Indian Punchline
Grave Of Empires: b: Moon Of Alabama
Really That Stupid?: Patrick Lang: Sic Semper Tyrannis
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
links
Hillary's New Jewelry?: Patrick Lang: Sic Semper Tyrannis
Battlefield Negotiation: b: Moon Of Alabama
The Terms Dictated: M K Bhadrajumar: Indian Punchline
Dictating Terms: Patrick BAHZAD: Sic Semper Tyrannis
The Northern Strategy: Steve Hendricks: Counter Punch
Here We Are: Michael Stephens: Multiplier Effect
The Davos Disease: SD: Systemic Disorder
Battlefield Negotiation: b: Moon Of Alabama
The Terms Dictated: M K Bhadrajumar: Indian Punchline
Dictating Terms: Patrick BAHZAD: Sic Semper Tyrannis
The Northern Strategy: Steve Hendricks: Counter Punch
Here We Are: Michael Stephens: Multiplier Effect
The Davos Disease: SD: Systemic Disorder
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