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"I'm from the GOP, and I'm here to enslave you."

When you cut through all the To Serve Man/cookbook bullshit, this is what the GOP  is reallly saying. People need to finally listen to the meaning - sort of like putting on the glasses in They...

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The Scramble for America - The banksters bring neo-colonialism home

The only thing new about the current financier-led push for colonialism is that its the First World they are colonizing. Although famous for her dissection of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt also...

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You can't be a colony unless you are a tribe

I really want to follow up on my last diary, about the historical similarities of our current situation to 19th-century colonialism; but there is another historical similarity I need to discuss first...

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Identity Theft: from the New Deal to the Same Old Deal

In the largest case of identity theft since the Communist Party cashed out the Soviet Union to the Oligarchs, the Democratic Party, led by Barack Obama, has stolen the full faith and CREDIT of the...

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Past twilight, into the darkness

To anyone not distracted by all the Kabuki theater in Washington and elsewhere, it is quite clear that we are past the twilight of democracy, and into the full darkness. Let me use an analogy most...

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Running the Industrial Revolution in Reverse

Over the last thirty years, our financial elites have "enclosed" small businesses, small towns, local mortgages, union shops, and intellectual property to the extent that the American middle class has...

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The GOP: Competing to be Caligula's horse

The GOP field of Presidential candidates is an insult to America. It is an insult to democracy, to rationality, to tolerance. It is the kind of calculated insult that entrenched emperors dish out to...

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Class war over; now it's on to tax farming

Its ironic that the rich are still screaming about class warfare when they have already won. Every tax shifted onto the bottom 99%, every government institution privatized for profit is evidence that...

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Deregulation+Privatization=corporate tax farming

The sole purpose of this diary is to try to get this meme, tax farming, into circulation as the instant comeback to right wing attacks on government taxation."privatization" is nothing more than...

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"Vote for the crook, its important."

The absolute breakdown of conventional politics in this country scares the shit out of me. The GOP are basically auditioning to be the most racist, fundamentalist, money-fellating nut in the nutjar....

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Oligarchy Alley at MIT

After going by the place every day for years, it finally dawned on me that all the education-busting oligarchs have set up shop literally right next to each other on the MIT campus.I can't post...

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The intellectual who did not bark

While many have remarked upon the presence of union members and military personal among OWS, I have yet to see anyone remark upon the almost complete absence of outspoken, if not radical,...

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Why can't OWS bear witness to SPECIFIC ripoffs and solutions?

I understand that OWS is supposed to avoid platforms, etc.; but what stops them from publishing a constantly updated list of examples of the kind of behavior that they are in the streets about? For...

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This is what Tsarism looks like

The logical goal of the GOP/elite war on government is Tsarist Russia. A place where there are no laws, just the whim of the Tsar. A place where there is no local government, only the officials of the...

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Dreaming big: Closed-cycle CO2 for fossil fuels + CORRECTION

You know what I miss about America? Dreams. The sense that we can accomplish great things. That we can turn a dream into reality. That we can use technology to better the human condition, or at least...

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The Presidency in Avignon during the Financial Pestilence

The majority of communicants of the Church of the Free Market have lost faith in this institution and its rhetoric; but, if history is any guide, it may take a century or more before that results in a...

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Blunt: Cuius regio, eius religio

Well, here is another GOP shot at dooming America to repeat some really awful history - the Blunt Bill.Its a two-fer. First, it reinstates  - the rule that ended the no-quarter-given warfare and...

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Given the Catholic Church's out-in-the-open war on women and on the Separation of Church and State I felt it was time to go back to an essay of mine that was blocked at Democratic Underground in 2007...

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Orcs in a Trance: the GOP really ARE zombies

Chris Mooney's latest piece on the fundamentally different thought patterns of liberals and conservatives is the starting point for this essay. His well-researched conclusion is that:There’s now a...

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Senator Check-box and the timidity of Democrats

The Democrats still don't get they are dealing with gangsters, gangsters whom the public wants out of Congress, off Wall St., and in jail.I will be the first to laugh at the absurdity of Scott Brown's...

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