July 26, 2018
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Jeff Bezos’ Paper Tells You Not to Worry About Those Billionaires by Dean Baker
Just when you thought economic commentary in the Washington Post couldn’t get any more insipid, Roger Lowenstein proves otherwise. In a business section “perspective” (7/20/18), he tells readers: But what if inequality is the wrong metric. Herewith a modest proposition: economic inequality is not the best yardstick. What we should be paying attention to is… Continue reading
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Fried fish, collard greens and brown rice with lots of black pepper By William Bowles
26 July 2018 I ‘lost’ this essay, that is to say, it vanished into the morass of my hard disk until, quite by chance, I ‘rediscovered’ it. Written for Carol’s funeral celebration by her friends in NYC, it needs no further explanation. WB A memory of Carol By William Bowles 20 October 2013 It’s a Continue reading
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Book Review: Red-Green Revolution: The politics and technology of ecosocialism
For 20 years, Victor Wallis was managing editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy, and he has been writing about ecological issues, from a Marxist perspective, for longer than that. He has a well-earned reputation for clear thinking and writing about capitalist eco-destruction and how we can stop it. Continue reading
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Saudis Buy Former UK Prime Minister Blair for $12 Million
Tony Blair, fmr Prime Minister of the UK and an architect of the Iraq War, is a mercenary that Saudi Arabia hired to present themselves as modernizers and cover for their invasion of Yemen, says Medea Benjamin, the author of Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection (in. transcript) Continue reading
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Israel: A Lodestar State for the White Nationalist Movement By Adeyinka Makinde
It is important to clarify what the primary objective of Political Zionism was from the outset: This was to found a Jewish state centered in Palestine to the exclusion of all other races and religions. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 July 2018: Shaun King "All In" With FBI; Ocasio-Cortez Lays Organizing Benchmark; Who is US and WE in RussiaGate?
25 July 2018 — Black Agenda Report Shaun King is “All In” with the FBI and CIA – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Shaun King is making his stand, shoulder-to-shoulder with COINTELPRO assassins, CIA liars, grand jury-manipulating prosecutors and anybody else that smears Trump and Putin. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 