Posts Tagged ‘liberals’

Radical Thinking

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Outstanding essay by Chris Hedges called “This Country Needs a Few Good Communists” gets to the heart of the matter. It’s about what happened to the once robust left in this country, and how Americans now need to find their way out of the grip of the Corporate State.

Dean Baker, in “Why Should We Listen to Deficit Hawks?,” questions the wisdom of taking advice from those who are only interested in picking our pockets once again. It’s time to smarten up, people, or whither away.

Coming Together

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Here’s an interesting example of the dynamic discussed in the previous post; that is, the possible coming together of ideological “opposites” in the name of change and progress. This example comes from Britain, following the curious merger of the Tories (conservative party) and the Liberal Democrats. As Greenwald neatly puts it in his essay: “how citizens of vastly divergent political philosophies can align.”