Election

Small Distractions

Submitted by WindDancer13 on Tue, 11/08/2016 - 6:35pm

Please pardon the amateur work, but after a very long break, I am just getting back into doing my artwork and having to relearn a lot of programs. I figure that I am going to need to find a way to supplement my social security soon, and I used to make decent money at this. So I am back from hiatus work wise and need to sharpen my skills.

Puttin' up with Putin and Russian Geopolitics

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 11/08/2016 - 4:50am

Vladimir Vladimirovich has some opinions regarding the outcome of this faux election.

The author of parts of this essay are by Sergei Markov, who runs a pro-Kremlin think tank in Moscow and is the deputy head of the international cooperation committee in the Civic Chamber.

Trump's casino bankruptcy case still helps shield Wall St from fraud cases today.

Submitted by subir on Fri, 11/04/2016 - 8:35am

David Sirota over at IBT has been doing some amazing investigative work this cycle (some of it focused on Democrats). Along with Avi Ascher-Schapiro, he has an article today about a court case from the 1990s: How Donald Trump Used Fine Print To Make It Harder To Sue Wall Street For Fraud

To My Friends on the Left: Hillary Clinton Is Not the Enemy

Submitted by subir on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 1:06pm

Jeffrey Isaacs published a letter today in The Nation. I would quibble with a few things in it, for example, it is addressed to a successful professional audience and is somewhat oblivious to the travails of those who are not. Hillary’s foreign policy is certainly “within a bipartisan mainstream” as Issacs says. Yet this should only be taken as an indictment of this “bipartisan mainstream”.

Letter to a Friend

Submitted by polkageist on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 1:01am

This essay is really just a slightly edited email reply I sent to an old friend I’ve known since grammar school. I’ll be 81 next month and he’s a year older so it isn’t as if we haven’t had time and experience enough to analyze what is going on in our lives, our country, our planet, and our minds. I’m afraid I just let my annoyance show, but I think it may just be time. The paragraphs between the asterisks are the pertinent part of an email he sent me.

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The election is irrelevant. Better to put our time to…

Submitted by jim p on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 9:32pm

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the winds will blow after November: Wall Street, the War Machine, The Corporate Borg will still run the joint, only moreso.

Though dead as a dinosaur, the current system still has its legs kicking, and will for the foreseeable future. The power class not only fails to understand that their Wars and Money Love have led to not only massive failures, but that their visions and plans are literally insane.

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