I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here?” that we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here, and one [...]
For years, those of us on the left explained to the Bush supporters that having a government which was run by people who would always place the profits of their corporate donors ahead of the interests of ordinary Americans was a recipe for trouble. The recent spike in the price of gasoline is just [...]
Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged says:
I would be duly appreciative if the usual suspects would stop making cautiously approving noises about the New Republican Openness to Helping the Poor. I’m pretty damn tired of repeating history because you idiots aren’t capable of learning from it.
You’re public intellectuals, right? I have to assume you’re trainable. Take a [...]
Witness the priorities of the rich.
Remember Hurricane will be used to drive out the black poor? Well, the Wall Street Journal has news for you:
The power elite of New Orleans — whether they are still in the city or have moved temporarily to enclaves such as Destin, Fla., and Vail, Colo. — insist the remade [...]
Sam Smith of Undernews has written an excellent new piece about the parallels between evangelical Christian extremists and evangelical free market extremists.
While a lot of attention is being paid to evangelical Christian extremism, far less is directed towards an equally dangerous religious sect - the practitioners of evangelical economic extremism.
Although the latter faith is not [...]
