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There’s debate raging on several blogs and also sporadically on an email list that I belong to about macroeconomic conditions versus campaign effects that I think is tending to confuse a few things.
Yglesias | ThinkProgress
LBO News from Doug Henwood
This is the text of the talks I gave at the University of California–Riverside and UC–Irvine, January 25 and 26, 2012. Graphs were added for the bloggy version. It’s funny.
In this beginning workshop, we will break down both the basic elements of how we communicate with each other and the (mostly unspoken/hidden) rules which govern that communication. Working with verbal and... These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....
The Brecht Forum
Platypus
Feature Article #3 David Haack Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] In the Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx disagrees with Hegel’s famous quote about history when he writes, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce…”[1] Occupy [...]
Swans Commentary
In her May Day article "Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena," Rebecca Solnit lists the present ills of US society, threading her presentation with recommendations for numerous books.
One of Romney's staffers offered up a perfect crystallization: the Etch- A- Sketch candidate.
The Progressive | Peace and social justice since 1909
“Romney continues to play well in the suburbs,” says Sean Trende, author of the new book The Lost Majority.
In These Times
Peckham Rye after riots, by Amanda Vincent-Rous, 8/8/11, Flickr cc “Why did thousands of London’s youngsters set about destroying shops and fighting against the police for four days in August 2011?” asks Federico Varese. “The official government interpretation...is that we are dealing with well-organized thieves and ‘petty criminality.’
Dissent Magazine
Harper's Magazine
Charles Glass is a journalist, author, and publisher who has frequently reported from the Middle East.
MRZine.org
sate3 Neither Annan nor the UN have the right 2 tell the Syrian Army to withdraw from anywhere as long as UN members are funding terrorists #Syria 17 hours ago · reply · retweet · favoriteIt's coming up to that time of year again.
LENIN'S TOMB
Against the Current | Solidarity
Against the Current is our bi-monthly analytical journal. As part of our larger project of regroupment and dialogue within the U.S.A report from the successfully concluded Founding Conference of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, Chicago, July 3-4, 2010