http://eecoswitch.com/Catalog Files/cat_thum.htm Glenn Greenwald has a cynical piece on Obama’s corporate-shill economic team, well worth reading in full – as they say, Wall Street spent more to elect Barack Obama than any previous candidate – but particularly valuable is Greenwald’s little gem of advice for interpreting propaganda: Geithner wasn’t chosen and hasn’t remained despite being “associated with the deregulatory […]
Category Archives: Political Comments
Greenwald on Propaganda.
22-Sep-11Excitable/Orwellian Andrew.
05-Sep-11I am as big a fan of Andrew Sullivan as can be, but I was impressively disappointed by his memorial of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I don’t disagree with the general point, that ten years on what is most salient is that our “homeland security” response – invasion of foreign countries, unregulated torture of […]
Good Sense.
04-Sep-11Robert Reich on reinvigorating the middle class. Worth reading. The evidence goes against all Hannityism and Limbaughism and, in short, Republicanism: as long as money goes “to the people who create jobs,” and Republican code for “the rich,” the economy will suffer: It’s no mere coincidence that over the last century the top earners’ share […]
Obama’s “Passion.”
15-Aug-11A very nicely written attack on Obama from the New York Times op-ed page, succinctly summarizing why we need FDR and not Obama in the presidency right now. I agree with this, but I consider it a sign of obtuseness to have believed Obama was a new FDR in the first place: he was, for […]
FDR – the greatest American President.
15-Aug-11Just a few months ago I stopped off at FDR’s “Little White House,” the modest country cabin in Georgia where he took his vacations and where he died. Its simplicity – it is one storey, and only a few rooms, perhaps fifteen hundred square feet – mocks our modern mores, and shows more starkly the […]
Res Publica versus Res Privatae.
13-Aug-11The Roman word for their government was the Res Publica, the public property. At every stage of the decline of the Republic the conflict can be interpreted as a desire on the part of the most powerful to privatize what was public, and to convert it into res privatae, private possessions, and so it happened […]
I am Starting to Hate This.
06-Jul-11There are a great number of things I love about the Catskills – a friend was just enthusing to me that she could see the constellation Delphinus from my cabin, and I know that you cannot see Delphinus from everywhere in this wasteful age. I love listening to the animals at night and the storms […]
On the death of Osama Bin Laden.
04-May-11No sympathy – live by the sword, die by the sword – but only a coward exults over a corpse.
Youngstown, Ohio.
31-Mar-11On my way back to New York, I had reason to stop in Youngstown, another place I had long wanted to see. I knew it only from the Bruce Springsteen song (a live version here; it is different from the studio version, which is far more desolate; I would link to the album version but […]
Just For the Record.
24-Sep-11http://iowabookgal.com/wp-json/wp/v2/users/1 It’s worth Obama being a one-term president, it’s worth the Mossad assassinating him, it’s worth his losing a few million donors, to not veto the Palestinian request for statehood. It’s the official policy of the United States that the Palestinians should have their own state. For us to veto it just shows our own disgusting […]