Kevin McCarthy was the Kerensky of the Republican revolution; Gaetz is its Lenin. Oct 10, 2023 Common Dreams The conventional media narrative of House Republicans’ dumping Speaker Kevin McCarthy tells us that the act represented disarray and dysfunction within the House GOP, just as its ever-changing list of legislative demands prior to the threatened government shutdown was supposed to…
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Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won’t solve this crisis
NATO’s critics summon up the 1919 Treaty of Versailles as a warning not to “punish” Russia. That’s fake historyYour Attractive Heading PUBLISHED AUGUST 19, 2023 Salon Across the political spectrum, a persistent minority of voices insists that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked by the eastward expansion of NATO in the 1990s and 2000s. Others…
Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn’t enough
America is the greatest economic and military power in world history — and our quality of life is garbage. But why? PUBLISHED AUGUST 5, 2023 Salon The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I likes it! — Grandpa Abe Simpson on the…
No, Aiding Ukraine Does Not Embolden China
It’s a recycled isolationist talking point from World War II, and it’s just as wrong now. July 14, 2023 Washington Monthly They are not, or at least not yet, a majority of GOP officeholders, but in a recent vote, 57 House Republicans and 11 GOP Senators opposed military aid to Ukraine in its struggle to defeat Russian aggression. Nearly half of…
There’s no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power
From Burke to Buckley to Patrick Deneen, we’ve seen a 200-year history of defending the indefensible Published July 1st in Salon link to article In 1950, author and critic Lionel Trilling wrote: In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain…
The party of pollution, disease and death: When Republicans tell you who they are, believe them
In the name of imaginary freedom, Republicans are willing to let many people die. In fact, they’re proud of it published June 9, 2023 in Salon.com link to article In its current session, the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the federal government’s authority to enforce the Clean Water Act. The mainstream media have been assiduous in explaining…
‘Free-Market Dogma’ Creates Disasters from East Palestine to Ukraine
How Wall Street’s drive to financialize every aspect of the economy has derailed trains, harmed health care, bottle-necked supply chains, and made it harder for the U.S. military to aid its allies. published April 19. 2023 in Common Dreams link to article By now everyone is familiar with the derailment of Norfolk Southern (NS) freight…