On December 16th, 1961 the world turned upside down and inside out, and I was born screaming in America. I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted a fireman, a policeman, a doctor, even president it seemed. But like many kids growing up on a steady diet of westerns I always … Read more
Must Reads Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group (The Intercept) First Brexit Then Trump. Is Italy Next for the West’s Populist Wave? (Fantastic piece on current Italian politics, The Guardian) Sanders Statement on Carrier and Outsourcing (Bernie Sanders’ Senate Page) Net Neutrality Shouldn’t Be a Debate – … Read more
Must Reads Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots “An Entirely New Political Movement” (The Hollywood Reporter) Trump’s Pick for Attorney General Scoffed at ‘Too Big to Fail’ (Sessions seems pretty good on corporate crime, Bloomberg) Harsher Security Tactics? Obama Left Door Ajar, and Donald Trump Is Knocking (The New … Read more
Must Reads/Op-eds Election Day: Only Josh Silver Won (Phenomenal article by Lawrence Lessig) Donald Trump is Moving to the White House, and Liberals Put Him There (Thomas Frank writing at The Guardian) Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here (The New York Times) It’s Worse Than You Think (Chris Hedges writing at TruthDig) Democrats, … Read more
Op-eds/Must Reads Five Reasons You Should Blame The Economics Discipline For Today’s Problems (Excellent read, Forbes) Clinton’s Charity Confirms Qatar’s $1 Million Gift While She Was at State Dept (Very, very disturbing, Reuters) Don’t Be So Sure Russia Hacked the Clinton Emails (Dangerous game being played, Reuters) How PE Firms Are Flipping Drugs in Price-Gouging Scheme that … Read more
Op-eds/Must Reads Ilargi: Ungovernability (Naked Capitalism) ‘The Woman is a Disaster!’: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton (The Spectator) How Congress Can Protect the U.S. From Russia (If you want to read the ramblings of an insane warmonger, read this, Politico) A Constellation of Influencers: Behind the Curtain at Teneo (The New York Times) Hacked Memo Offers … Read more
Opinon/Must Reads The Cashless Society Is a Creepy Fantasy (Bloomberg) Sorry Not Sorry: Politico’s Thrush Doubles Down on Podesta Emails (U.S. media is a total disgrace, The Hill) Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans (The Guardian) The Slide Toward War With Russia (The Nation) Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs Nationalists and Populists Poised to … Read more
Two weeks worth of links today. Opinion/Must Reads Aide Planted Anti-Bank Comments in One Paid Clinton Speech to Throw Reporters Off the Scent (The Intercept) The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins (The Wall Street Journal) The Disastrous Failure of Lesser Evilism (CounterPunch) Trump May Not Win, but He’s Not Going Away (Bloomberg) The Long History of the … Read more
Opinion/Must Reads Gary Johnson: Take a Deep Breath, Voters. There Is a Third Way. (Op-ed by Gary Johnson, New York Times) Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs U.S. to Send More Troops to Iraq Ahead of Mosul Battle (We’re never getting out of Iraq, Reuters) Pakistan ‘Completely Rejects’ Indian Claim of Cross-Border Strikes (Reuters) Erdogan Signals Preference for Longer Turkey … Read more
Opinion/Must Reads “FBI Is Handing Out Immunity Deals Like Candy” (Total insanity, Zerohedge) WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source After Accepting Pulitzer (Epic shamelessness, The Intercept) In Wells Fargo’s Bogus Accounts, Echoes of Foreclosure Abuses (The New York Times) Academic Penury: Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat (Naked Capitalism) The … Read more