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Author Archives: Arlen Grossman
It’s Time to Give Socialism a Try
By Elizabeth Bruenig/ Washington Post/ March 6, 2017 In the United States, we’ve arrived at a pair of mutually exclusive convictions: that liberal, capitalist democracies are guaranteed by their nature to succeed and that in our Trumpist moment they … Continue reading
Posted in America, Economics, economy, government, politics
Tagged capitalism, Elizabeth Bruenig, socialism, Washington Post
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It’s Time to Give Socialism a Try
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Posted in America, Economics, economy, government, politics
Tagged capitalism, Elizabeth Bruenig, liberalism, socialism, Washington Post
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Foreign Meddling: We Do It, Too
Posted in elections, foreign policy, government, military, politics
Tagged Chile, CIA, Guatemala, Iran, James Woolsey, Laura Ingraham, Nicaragua, The Real News
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Our Lowest Priority: People
By Arlen Grossman There is one important reason this country has so many mass shootings, as well as so much suicide, opioid addiction, depression, anxiety, child abuse and a litany of other indicators of a dysfunctional, troubled society. It comes … Continue reading
Posted in America, government, philosophy, politics
Tagged culture, schools, society, values
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Has It Gotten This Bad?
Trump’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy By Robert Reich/ robertreich.org/ February 4, 2018 If Robert Mueller finds that Trump colluded with Russia to fix the 2016 election, or even if Trump fires Mueller before he makes such a finding, Trump’s supporters will … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, government, politics, Republican Party
Tagged Fox News, Robert Mueller, Robert Reich, Russia
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Electronic Oligarchy
Net Neutrality Means You Can Have The Internet Your Way By Thom Hartmann/ ThomHartmann.com/ January 26, 2018 The international order is changing as a result of populism, and I would argue that the populism is a response to the … Continue reading
Posted in media, politics, technology
Tagged Ajit Pai, Burger King, Donald Trump, FCC, internet, Mitch McConnell, net neutrality, Paul Ryan, Thom Hartmann, Tom Wheeler
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4th Amendment? What’s That?
Letter in the Sunday Monterey Herald, January 20, 2018 With the help of 65 Democrats, the House of Representatives voted 256-164 last week to support a controversial bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program. Section 702 of the Foreign … Continue reading
Posted in America, civil liberties, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Arlen Grossman, FISA, Jimmy Panetta, Monterey Herald, privacy
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The Real “Shithole Country”
by Chris Hedges/ Truthdig/ January 14, 2018 I covered the war in El Salvador for five years. It was a peasant uprising by the dispossessed against the 14 ruling families and the handful of American corporations that ran El Salvador … Continue reading
Posted in America, foreign policy, government, military, war
Tagged Chris Hedges, El Salvador, Latin America, Nicaragua, Pablo Neruda, Ronald Reagan, Shithole Country, Truthdig
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Time to Overthrow Our Rulers
By Thom Hartmann/ AlterNet/ January 8, 2018 Is it time to bring a monarchy to the United States? Or is it time to end one? The New York Times recently ran a fascinating article [3] by Leslie Wayne putting … Continue reading
Posted in America, government, politics, Supreme Court
Tagged AlterNet, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jack Anderson, Lewis Powell, The Powell Memo, Thom Hartmann
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6 Degrees of Vladimir Putin
Posted in Donald Trump, government, politics, Russia, Uncategorized
Tagged Sergey Kislyak, Vladimir Putin
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