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Outcry From the Left Precedes Debt Deal - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    This seems to be The President's modus operandi - 1) Lay out clear markers that are supported by a majority of Avericans - i.e. balanced approach with cuts and revenues; 2) Watch the republicans take a hard line to satisfy the tea party; 3) Give the republicans 99% of what they want; 4) Blame the left for not compromising. It looks like the framework for the deal is beginning to take shape, and it's not at all surprising. Tilted heavily toward cuts that will affect the middle and working classes disproportionately, and almost tailor-made to spare the rich any sacrifice whatsoever. While this is not surprising given the terms of the debate, it still boggles the mind to witness our republic complete its transformation into the very definition of a plutocracy. We have a political system designed specifically to protect the interest of the monied elite (I suppose one could argue that this had been the case for a long time, but it only really became nakedly, brazenly obvious during the 2008 financial crisis). Stories like these don't end well. Including for the elite. The history books are replete with warnings. Our country is going into a dark time.
avivajazz  jazzaviva

Outcry From the Left Precedes Debt Deal - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    This seems to be The President's modus operandi - 1) Lay out clear markers that are supported by a majority of Avericans - i.e. balanced approach with cuts and revenues; 2) Watch the republicans take a hard line to satisfy the tea party; 3) Give the republicans 99% of what they want; 4) Blame the left for not compromising.
avivajazz  jazzaviva

Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization | Pre-9/11 Leftist Politics - 0 views

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    Before the events of September 11 and the ensuing 'war against terrorism,' the biggest subject of debate on the left in the US had to do with anti-globalization protests, particularly those in Genoa.
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DiscoverTheNetworks.org | Right-Wing 'Guide' to the Political Left - 0 views

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    Stark raving mad, this website trembles in fear at evil communists like Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, who wants to balance excesses of asset-owning, elite investors with needs of wage-earning peasants!
avivajazz  jazzaviva

chycho.com | economics | analysis of our socioeconomic metamorphosis - 0 views

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    Intense, potent video about foreclosed home in California, where the 'depressed' and bankrupt (spiritually as well as financially) family left ALL their possessions behind--including family photos... http://serve.castfire.com/video/26078/26078_2008-09-25-215549.mp4
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Radical Reference | Answers for Those Who Question Authority | Radical Libraries, Radic... - 0 views

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    # activism feminism left politics progressive research socialnetworking # 07 Aug 06 lauralf Laura Lo Forti a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality. progressive citizenmedia citizenjournalism research
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SCOTUSblog » Internet Commentary and the Nominations Process - 0 views

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    "Attacks on Elena Kagan from the right and left"
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Angry Bear | Liberal Economic/Political Blog - 0 views

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    "Slightly left of center economic commentary on news, politics, and the economy. "
Anne Hulthen

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - 1 - 0 views

  • He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish;
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      This is kind of like Jimmy Carter, How sometimes the best person doesn't make the best president, because they lack the ability to persuade the caucus or play the politician.
  • All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. 
  • "This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other."(
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  • there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.(15) There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do,
  •  It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that
  • Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may.
  •   All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.
  • There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves.
  • "I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico; — see if I would go";
  • ow many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one. Does not America offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow (17) — one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern,
  • and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute
avivajazz  jazzaviva

Open Left:: Changing The Dynamic of Congress--"The Choice Is Ours" - 0 views

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    Without a hardline group of progressives willing to join with Republicans and defeat Democratic legislation unless that legislation meets certain progressive criteria, every legislative fight will follow this process of backroom deals with corporate interests resulting in an inexorable right-wing slide. ...The Progressive Block needs to publicly draw clearn lines in the sand before draft legislation is introducted. This allows both netroots and grassroots activists to organize around that line in the sand. Otherwise, given the backroom nature of these dealings, there is no way for the progressive activist base to play any meaningful role in the legislative process, and all negotiation power is ceded to corporate lobbyists.
avivajazz  jazzaviva

How the Democratic Party Works, and Doesn't Work | Not a Sentimental Piece | Open Left - 0 views

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    The reason why Democrats so often ignore and betray progressives is that we haven't given them incentives not to. Money, votes, and publicity are what count, and so far progressives have not leveraged these incentives effectively. Also, Democrats really need some leaders who are functional in the worlds of bluffing, bargaining, gambling, and fighting.
avivajazz  jazzaviva

politics + culture :: avivagabriel on twitter - 0 views

  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics | Richard Hofstadter on the "Radical Right" http://im.ly/86791 #p2
  • Check the veritable wealth of 'fact checkers' at Dog-Whistle Racism--scroll down left for long link roll: http://bit.ly/89azk #p2 #hcr
  • Yup. Shoq proposed the "MT," or "modified tweet." As far as 'human years' under my belt--I have MANY. 'Course, it's all relative!
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