Part of the globalizers' propaganda war is to deny that the term "neoliberalism" has any historical, political, or economic content, to reduce it to a mere curse word used by lefties. In the past, the best rebuttal I had to that was the maddeningly jargon-filled writing of Philip Mirowski, an economics professor at Notre Dame. Today, I found a book review of a book that purports to be not only a history of neoliberalism, but a fairly clear and readable explanation of its goals.

The youtube broadcast attached below describes one of the methods used to slant the 2016 US primary elections against Bernie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLuO1qDkoNg

I have spent the better part of today in phone queues, trying to sort out a financial problem. As I sat on these queues, I was constantly propositioned with questionaires asking me how I like the service. Every time I walk in a store, I get asked if I have/want the "club card". Every day I get junk mail from every corporation I have so much as done a Google search on. All these robo-invitations are trying to get me to be in a "relationship" with a faceless corporation.

I've pointed out here and here how the political center-left has been absolutely routed all over the western world in recent years.
This has been due entirely to the close embrace of neoliberalism from parties that were founded on the premise of protecting the working class.

I had never heard of Charlie LeDuff until last week when this interview showed up in my YouTube feed. Spasiba Comrade Putin!
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_GOWnMgQM&t=1072s width:600 height:360]

Gov. Ricardo Roselló of Puerto Rico is on a mission to privatize the island.
At the center of this effort is Puerto Rico’s bankrupt public power utility, known as PREPA. What most people don't know is that PREPA was already partially privatized.

Roughly 40% of people in Puerto Rico still have no lights.

The destruction of the centrist Democrats in the U.S., Blue Dog Democrats in particular, is well known. What isn't talked about as much is how the center-left is being routed all over the western world.

Cross posted from Real Economics.