The Heat: Wealth Inequality Explodes in the United States
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Elections
Iniquity, the 0.000006%, and Who Pays $300k to Hear Hillary
The United States’ 20 wealthiest people (The 0.000006 Percent) now own more wealth than the bottom half of the U.S. population combined, a total of 152 million people in 57 million households. The Forbes 400 now own about as much wealth as the nation’s entire African-American population — plus more than a third of the Latino population — combined; more wealth combined than the bottom 61 percent of the U.S. population, an estimated 194 million people or 70 million households.
These
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Identity Berned
Every time I write about a book about Bernie Sanders, somebody sends me a better one. If this keeps up, by the time his campaign is over I should be reading the best book ever written and be completely out of touch with reality. The latest is The Bern Identity by Will Bunch.
These books don’t make me like Bernie Sanders any more or less, or for that matter take seriously any more or less the idea that a likable personality is particularly relevant. But they do inform me about Sanders and
Bern the Feel
If you have to obsess over a political candidate who’s ocassionally allowed on television, please do so with Ted Rall’s book on Bernie. This is not John Nichols’ interview of Bernie in which he forgets that foreign policy even exists. This is not Jonathan Tasini’s almost worshipful book in which he selectively includes the best and omits the worst of Bernie Sanders’ record.
And this is not even just an honest look at the facts about Bernie (which Rall sees as far more
How Did Hillary Win Over Michael Moore?
Here’s Michael Moore explaining that you cannot morally vote for Hillary because of her war-making:
Here’s Michael Moore in completely delusional mode fantasizing about a future President Hillary Clinton somehow turning on her Wall Street and warmongering chums:
What changed? Nothing about Hillary.
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Bernie Sanders Mentioned the Military Budget
If U.S. President were not a mythical position but a serious job, the job interview would include asking the candidates their basic plans of action. This would start with, “What will you encourage Congress to spend a couple of trillion dollars on each year?”
At the moment, about half of federal discretionary spending is spent on one thing, militarism. A basic budget proposal from each candidate would tell us whether they think military spending should go up or down. Some of the Republicans
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Talk Nation Radio: Diana Johnstone on Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton
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DianaJohnstone is a writer based in Paris, France. Her past books include Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, Nato, and
Do Individual Politicians Matter?
It is entirely possible that President Al Gore would not have attacked Afghanistan or Iraq. President Henry Wallace might very well not have nuked Hiroshima or Nagasaki. President William Jennings Bryan almost certainly would not have attacked the Philippines.
Presidents are pushed into war and held back from war all the time, but they also do some pushing and pulling of their own. Within days of Germany’s surrender in World War II, Winston Churchill proposed recruiting German troops into
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U.S. Government Decides Voting Is Less Important Than a Military Draft
I know what you’re thinking. There is no draft. There hasn’t been a draft in decades. They’d let entire Central American nations immigrate, pay recruits six-figure salaries, and let robots fly the drones before they’d create a draft. Crackpot Congress members only bring up a draft as a supposed bank-shot maneuver for ending all the damn wars. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Your government has nonetheless decided that registering men for a possible draft (whether they like it or
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Bernie Drones and Bernie Volunteers
The “senior digital organizer” of Bernie Sanders for President volunteers Aidan King, has this to say:
“I was so excited about Obama. And I still think he’s done amazing things. But I wanted more follow-through,” says King, listing “drone strikes, kill lists, NSA spying on Americans, the expansion of Bush-administration policies, a failed drug war, failed foreign policy,” and the increasing influence of money in politics as his main concerns. “I put
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