By Jon Rynn November 13, 2016 The Core Problem: Trump Plays the Employment Card Donald Trump offered a solution to the problem of not enough good jobs, and Hillary Clinton did not. That is the core of what happened. Democrats need to offer a better solution than Trump, and then they will take the Presidency…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman “…having got into the university, English studies had within twenty years converted itself into a fairly normal academic course, marginalizing those members of itself who were sustaining the original project. Because by this time what it was doing within the institution was largely reproducing itself, which all academic institutions tend to…
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March 13, 2016, Revised March 14, 2016. By Jonathan Michael Feldman A New York Times editorial published on March 12, 2016 faults Sanders for claiming that a political revolution is either desirable or operational. They write: “revolutions are typically bottom-up, not top-down events.” They also note: “there are not enough elected office holders in Congress…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman April 28, 2016 The Logic of Subversion: Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy Some parts of the Left or apparent Left have used the term “Fifth Column” to describe their activities. The term is used on a Facebook page to describe one such group. While social media may not have a large impact…
February 7, 2016 By Jon Rynn Bernie Sanders has stirred the passion of many voters by concentrating on the problem of growing income inequality. Inequality, he points out, leads to stagnating and declining income for most people. The higher income for the top 1% completely distorts the political system. With more power for Wall Street…
June 14, 2012 “The logic of planetary responsibility is aimed, at least in principle, at confronting the globally generated problems point-blank—at their own level. It stems from the assumption that lasting and truly effective solutions to planetwide problems can be found and made to work only through the renegotiation and reforming of the web of…
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COMBINE MORALITY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS WHEN IT COMES TO THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND ARMS EXPORTS IN SWEDEN Will the narrow framing of the debate over the potential renewal agreement between Sweden and Saudi Arabia lead to a defeat for those opposed to arms exports? To avoid defeat of those opposed to renewal and to broaden…
Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin Perpetual growth under present circumstances threatens the ecosystem. The current system of energy usage is unsustainable. Zero growth in a depression threatens to create a permanent class of unemployed and underemployed persons, however. Debts and imports can rob wealth, but simply cutting deficits without generating wealth and growth…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman Don’t Just Cut the Defense Budget With Laissez-Faire Economic Policy Progressive and left leading economists have proposed military budget cutbacks, increased taxes and closing loop holes as ways to reduce the deficit. The problem with the first proposal is that it often is not accompanied by proposals to create civilian alternatives…
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By Brian D’Agostino What I find remarkable about the recent “fiscal cliff” debate in the United States, which is now morphing into the “debt ceiling” debate, is the absence of America’s bloated and obsolete war economy from the discussion, even as vitally needed programs are on the chopping block. For two months, right wing Republicans…
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