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Quote of the day
Bob Urie takes a union to task: Last week SEIU (Service Employees International Union) echoed the language of the Occupy Wall Street movement to give an early endorsement to Barack Obama in his...
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Organized labor tacks to the right
Samuel Gompers Matea Gold and Melanie Mason of the Los Angeles Times briefly described this rightward shift in big labor: Last May, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka stood a few blocks from the White...
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So Long But Not Farewell to Dennis Kucinich
Abby Rapoport of the American Prospect magazine smears Dennis Kucinich: So Long But Not Farewell to Dennis Kucinich. One would expect an article of this sort to appear in the New Republic. But a...
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The Dennis Kucinich Debacle
Abby Rapoport attempted to rebut Glenn Greenwald‘s recent critique of her Kucinich smear: The Dennis Kucinich Debacle. She fails, however. It would help Rapoport’s cause if she and The American...
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The ungrateful bastards
The New York Times reports that: President Obama’s re-election campaign is straining to raise the huge sums it is counting on to run against Mitt Romney, with sharp dropoffs in donations from nearly...
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Surprised by criticism from the left
I just concluded a brief phone conversation with a MoveOn activist. It’s an election year, and her natural and obvious goal was to promote Barack Obama’s cause in November. She did not say much,...
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Failure?
Recently, political conformists in the United States celebrated the diminished presence of the Occupy Movement. To be sure, the lack of standing, active occupations — mostly due to the repression of...
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I got a letter from Bill Clinton!
The text: I hope you’ll pay attention, Stephen. We’re facing a big FEC fundraising deadline — after this, there’s only one more before Election Day. Here’s why that matters: Your donation will go...
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Recommended: Massive Surge of Republican Money in Last Ditch Effort to Sink...
Thomas Ferguson and his collaborators have warned us about an endgame surge by the Romney campaign, a possible leap in his popularity that might eventually bury the Obama presidency. In this respect...
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A new Southern Strategy?
Sarah Seltzer of AlterNet suggests that: It was only a matter of time before the bursting of the bubble for hard-core conservatives led to cries of secession. To be fair, blue-staters were saying...
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With October first approaching
Let us recall a Kathleen Sebelius (Health and Human Services Secretary) interview which dates to 2009: Asked if the administration’s program will be drafted specifically to prevent it from evolving...
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Austerity kills
It is always worth making the effort to recognize that an unnecessary but not pointless austerity politics creates adverse and, sometimes, existential problems for those individuals without the means...
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For a moment, the plague brought together our supposed representatives, who typically are befuddled by gridlock and acrimony. Robert Brenner wrote: There has been, and will be, no serious challenge...
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