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6 Lessons From Nonviolent Organizing for Resisting Trumpism
The Beautiful Trouble Team | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - Trouble vs. Trump Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove…
Welcome to Psychopathocracy
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - We are now on the brink of a new form of government, undreamed of by Aristotle, who spoke of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy.…
Exxon’s Rex Tillerson and the rise of Big Oil in American politics
Brian C. Black | (The Conversation) | - - “How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country” is the subtitle of a book that tells the story…
Even in the Trump Era, Inequality can be Reduced
By Josh Hoxie | (Otherwords.org) | - - With Washington looking hopeless, it's up to local communities to close the gap between the richest and the rest. In a lot of ways,…
Trump’s Extreme Oligarchy
By Simon Johnson | ( Project Syndicate) | - - WASHINGTON, DC – US President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with rich people. According to the latest count, his nominees include…
Remember when Dems were blasted for Class War? Meet Trump’s Cabinet
By Sam Pizzigati | ( Institute for Policy Studies) | - - Donald Trump and the business kingpins populating his inner circle want to slice the tax bill of America’s top 0.1…America’s Rigged Casino of Wealth and Power: Trump’s New Gilded Age
By Sam Pizzigati | ( Inequality.org In the years right after World War II, average Americans got ahead. Now Americans are getting headaches — from a ferociously top-heavy distribution of the nation’s…
It’s the Economy, Stupid: Ending ‘Religious’ Violence in the Middle East
Moha Ennaji | (Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has…
Billionairocracy: Trump didn’t drain the Swamp, he is Drowning us in it
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - Given his cabinet picks so far, it’s reasonable to assume that The Donald finds hanging out with anyone who isn’t a billionaire (or…
The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady
By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - High above, somewhere behind the black glass façade, President-elect Donald J. Trump was huddled with his inner circle, plotting just how they would…
Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn’t have elected Trump
By Bill Emmott | (Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US President-elect Donald Trump will behave in office…
With Trump, we’ve all Entered the Dark Dimension of Dormamu
By James A. Haught | (Charleston Gazette-Mail) | - - Existentialists contend that humanity has a streak of irrational absurdity that defies logical understanding. The Donald Trump presidential victory rouses that feeling.…
Election Postmortem: Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride?
By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | - - According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Labor Unions Step Up Presidential Election Spending,” labor unions contributed to Hillary Clinton…
America through the Hell-Gate of Horn
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of order…
If he wins: The Coming Trump Market Crash and Great Recession
By Simon Johnson | (Project Syndicate) | - - WASHINGTON, DC – With the United States’ presidential election on November 8, and a series of elections and other political decisions fast approaching…
Why couldn’t the Corporate Old Boys’ Network Stop Trump?
By Johan Chu & Jerry Davis | (The Conversation) | - - If corporate money controls our politics, as Bernie Sanders and others have claimed, then how did the Republican Party –…
Can America’s Middle Class make a Comeback?
By Munir Moon | (Informed Comment) | - - The middle class is getting crushed. But there is hope. The most common argument about the middle class destruction is the declining or…
The Vanity of the Billionaires: Circuses and no Bread
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Rome was a republic until between 40 and 27 BCE, when the generals overthrew it. Military dictator Gaius Octavius put the nail in…