We’re Baaaack!
And we’re back… If you’ve tried to visit our site recently, you might have received a scary error message saying that our site may be dangerous. We are not quite sure what happened. All we know is that for almost three days, we looked like an attack site, and many of our readers were justifiably…
Read More1. Not Even Remotely the Hobbit
Editor’s Note: This week, we begin a new foray into parody. Luke Haines, our UK correspondent and editor, will give us today the first in a series of short, comic pieces that will run over the next few issues. He describes his effort with: “ A while back I wrote something in which I compared…
Read MoreMeme: Have You No Decency?
This is grotesque…
Read MoreSteel Collar Workers
It is one more pernicious myths of the Trumpian Right that “illegal immigrants” are stealing jobs from “real Americans.” The reality, of course, is that jobs weren’t there to be stolen. Long ago, CEOs, MBAs, and Corporations sent them overseas–that is, to places like China, where labor costs were low and unions were non-existent. The…
Read MoreMeme: Still Criminal
There wouldn’t have to be collusion…just something illegal as hell.
Read MoreCapitalism Is In Trouble
Capitalism today is in trouble, and even the most ardent defenders of free enterprise are saying so. Consider Jonathan Tepper, founder of Variant Perception, “a research group for asset managers.” It would seem hard to find anyone more devoted to unregulated markets. Yet, even so, in a new book, The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and…
Read MoreMeme: The Trump Cult
When someone chooses belief over evidence, we have a cult…and a problem.
Read MoreGymboree, The Horror Story
Want to see late capitalism in the raw? Check out “She Lied to My Face”: Inside the Hectic Last Days of Gymboree’s Retail Bankruptcy by David Dayen in The Intercept. The article looks at the truly horrible decline and fall of Gymboree, a retailer of children’s clothing. The company declared bankruptcy in 2017. The kicker?…
Read MoreMeme: We Want The Whole Thing…
Not just a white wash…
Read MoreMeme: His Master’s Voice
Barr is doing exactly what Trump told him to do. No more. No less.
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