How Liberals Can Speak Without Boring Everyone to Tears
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet interview with Thom Hartmann:
Posted on December 6, 2007, Printed on December 7, 2007The new economy of catastrophe - Adoption by Naomi Klein from her new and important book, "The Shock Doctrine", published by Metropolitan Books. This article appeared in the October 2007 issue of Harper's Magazine
story and the Iraq Study Group Report. Highly recommended.
by E.J. Dionne Jr., in Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2006 -
Changes in politics and culture at the end of an important year.
Republic or Empire - A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States
by Chalmers Johnson, Harper's Magazine, January 2007 -
"The United States remains, for the moment, the most powerful nation in history, but it faces a violent contradiction between its long republican tradition and its more recent impe rial ambitions.
The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democrat ic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.
Several factors, however, indicate that this course will be a brief one, which most likely will end in economic and political collapse."
An essay by E.L. Doctorow
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH in New Yorker - Nov. 20, 2006
Author of a continuing series of articles about the dangers and likeliness of an American attack on Iran, Hersh asks, "Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?"
by MATT BAI in NY Times Magazine, Oct. 1, 2006 -
This article discusses the relationship between Howard Dean and the Democratic Party's 'establishment' — reviewing the opposing strategies each is using to increase the Party's power and electability. This is a struggle between local, bottom-up control vs. national top-down control of the party. It is also a struggle over how to spend its money and whether it is better to concentrate on winning the 2006 elections or to concentrate building the party so it can win future elections.
by Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker, Nov. 13, 2006 -
What's left of the Bushies after the 2006 elections?
An Exclusive BRAD BLOG Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Guest Blogged by Joy and Tom Williams
"The Republican Party, the Republican National Committee, has been using old-fashioned, Jim Crow, apartheid-type maneuvers to steal the last two national elections." – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Thom Hartmann on Fascism today
From Thom's newsletter, August 29, 2006
Reclaiming The Issues:
Islamic Or Republican Fascism?
In the years since George W. Bush first used 9/11 as his own "Reichstag fire" to gut the Constitution and enhance the power and wealth of his corporate cronies, many across the political spectrum have accused him and his Republican support group of being fascists.
Rove’s Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG | NYTimes | 9/2/06
Rove, a year before he stepped down (or rather, was fired)
Americans Want Democrats in Power
Yahoo! News | By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press Writer
July 14, 2007
Bring In the Conservatives - By THOMAS FRANK | NYTimes | 8/22/06
by Thomas Frank in NY Times, Sept. 1, 2006 -
"Over the last month I have tried to describe conservative power in Washington, but with a small change of emphasis I could just as well have been describing the failure of liberalism: the center-left’s inability to comprehend the current political situation or to draw upon what is most vital in its own history.
What we have watched unfold for a few decades, I have argued, is a broad reversion to 19th-century political form, with free-market economics understood as the state of nature, plutocracy as the default social condition, and, enthroned as the nation’s necessary vice, an institutionalized corruption surpassing anything we have seen for 80 years. All that is missing is a return to the gold standard and a war to Christianize the Philippines.
Historically, liberalism was a fighting response to precisely these conditions. Look through the foundational texts of American liberalism and you can find everything you need to derail the conservative juggernaut. But don’t expect liberal leaders in Washington to use those things. They are “New Democrats” now, enlightened and entrepreneurial and barely able to get out of bed in the morning,..."
How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray
By Shankar Vedantam | Washington Post Staff Writer, July 31, 2006
By John W. Dean | Boston Globe | July 14, 2006
by E.J. Dionne in Washington Post, Sept. 1, 2006 -
"Worse is that the proportion of the poor who are very poor has risen. People are considered in deep poverty if they have half or less of the yearly income of those at the poverty line. In 2005 half the poverty line for a family of three was $7,788; for a family of four it was $9,985. (Try living on that.) According to the new report, 43.1 percent of poor people lived in that sort of deep poverty - a record since 1975, when the government started assembling such statistics."
The Politics of American Greed
by Molly Ivins, in AlterNet on July 12, 2006 -
"Anyone who doesn't think this is a country where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer needs to check the numbers - this is Bush country, where a rising tide lifts all yachts."
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