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Three on Greece
So what’s with Greece? Three data points that are refreshingly free of smoke. 1. Kevin Drum has a conversation on Greece and explains how this is not about fixing things but rather a struggle between Greece and its creditors over the huge loses from a train wreck that’s inevitably coming. 2.Yves Smith’s interprets Papandreou’s recent […]
Occupy Ruminations
It must be said that you don’t see these folks toting guns. And you don’t see race-baiting or talk about Jews and ovens or faces of Obama superimposed on fascist uniforms. There are no screaming claims of sodomy or socialism or jokes about Obama rhyming with Osama or pokes at having Hussein as a middle […]
Occupy Impressions
It was 10:30 in the morning. I thought I was late, but the march wasn’t supposed to start for an hour. “Do you need any help?” I asked. “We’ve got it covered,” the girl behind the table told me. But just then someone walked up who did need help. So I filled up helium balloons. […]
Caving
You have to work hard and long to lose Kevin Drum, to get him to sound shrill, but our fearless leader has done it. Caving on deficits, caving on taxes, caving on unemployment, Kevin covers it all with a final exasperated, throw-up-your-hands and hang-your-head-low frustration about the President’s reversal of EPA’s regulations, a reversal that […]
Even More Humanity
In response to the killings: We must never cease to stand up for our values. We have to show that our open society can pass this test, too. And that the answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity, but never naivete. This is what we own the victims and those they hold […]
A Life in Politics
He was on television a few weeks ago. An elder American politician in a middle Eastern city. At a podium with a flag hanging symbolically on the wall behind him. He waved his hands. He talked his talk. He smiled his plastic smile. Stragglers in the street waved flags when the cameras turned to them. It […]