What’s Important and What’s Really Important By S. Artesian

12 November 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor

1. See this article in the NYT.   It is an important article

2.  It is important to note that the article confirms Insurgent Notes argument that the turn to Trump was a measure of desperation by workers, and that neither racism, nor anti-immigration were the selling points to the Carrier workers.

 3.  It is important that none of the African-American workers interviewed could bring themselves to vote for Trump.

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Does Donald Trump Have a Strategy? Selected Articles

10 November 2016 — Global Research

Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_3_(cropped)President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?

By Prof. John McMurtry, November 10 2016

On the face of it, Trump is an ideal leader for US empire. He is like Ronald Reagan on steroids. His long practiced camera image, his nativist  US supremacism, his down-home talk, and  his reality-show confidence all go one better. He is America come to meet itself decades down the road as its pride slips away in third-world conditions. But unlike Reagan and Bush who spoke to the rich becoming richer, Trump speaks to the losing white working class and those who have come to hate the money-corrupted Washington forging the policies of dispossession Reagan started.

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