The TPP agreement has never been about helping average Americans obtain jobs. Its overarching purpose has been to ensure US corporations gain enough power to dominate international trade markets. More specifically, it was designed to deter China’s expansionist ambitions.
As CNN noted in April:
Really, this is about China.
This evening's music features r&b musician Sly Stone.
I just posted this brief diary at the Dkos:
Long before the 2014 midterm-elections, I was one of the few people on this site warning members of the Democratic Party to prepare themselves for huge losses during the midterm elections. For holding that position, I was vilified. But in the end, I was proven right.
If Hillary Clinton is a true liberal, as Markos Moulitsas has so definitively asserted, then it creates a framework for healing the wounds that have divided the Democratic Party.
At the same time, it stands to reason that Hillary Clinton’s refusal to acknowledge the growing rift between party members creates an almost insurmountable obstacle. As is common in all sick families, a problem that isn’t acknowledged can’t be cured. And there are many grievances to be healed.
This evening's music features blues singer and piano player Tommy Tucker.
This evening's music features Chicago bluesman John Primer.
This evening's music features early blueswoman Ida Cox.
This evening's music features New Orleans r&b singer and self-appointed "Emperor of the Universe," Ernie K-Doe.
Cross-posted from GoS.
Mainstream thinking, not just Republican thinking, is consistently wrong. Justification and support for the Iraq War? WRONG. Catastrophically wrong. Multi-generational even. Centennial even. An amazingly catastrophic mass lapse of establishment "reason" indeed.
This evening's music features Chicago blues and boogie-woogie piano player Jimmy "Papa" Yancey.
