Health in America
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010A good report from Chris Hedges: “Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick,” takes an honest look at the health insurance biz and government in America.
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Good-and-Hard-istan
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010David Michael Green notices the deeply regressive state of degradation we currently find ourselves in: “How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For You?”
H. L. Mencken, back in 1916, wrote: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
So, if you want things to go your way, you dupe the “common people” into thinking they should want what you want (e.g., don’t tax the rich, dismantle public policy, deregulate), and once they agree, you give it to them good and hard. That’s where we’re at now: we’re gettin’ it good and hard.
The Confidence Fairy and the Fatalist
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Paul Krugman dismantles the “Myths of Austerity.”
And Joe Bageant is back in: “Live from Planet Norte.”
The Shake Down
Monday, June 28th, 2010Michael Hudson writes well about the predatory machinations of the Finance Class in “Europe Sacrifices Labour for Finance.” These are the economic lines of battle being drawn right now. Having gained all the power, they’re coming after all the money.
Sad but True
Friday, June 25th, 2010DMG (David Michael Green) goes on a quick tour of the past thirty years of regressive American politics in “Mission Accomplished:
The Reagan Occupation and the Destruction of the American Middle Class.” Until a majority of Americans understand the basic premise of this story, we’re going to be stuck in it.