Topic: Thinking Politically

On Caitlin Johnstone and David Cobb’s Attempt to Destroy the Green Party

Sep 11, 2017

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fitzdon

Earlier this week we ran a piece by Yoav Litvin, in which he questioned why some Green Party members, including ex-presidential candidate David Cobb, who also served as Jill Stein’s campaign manager last year, would align himself with Caitlin Johnstone, a writer who openly calls for the left to team up with the racist far-right in order…
Qatar and the Saudi embargo

Sep 9, 2017

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squirrel

Rather than dismiss the Gulf states with simplistic stereotypes about ‘’Arab sheikhs with money”, this Saudi-Qatari dispute compels us to examine the capitalist economies driven by petrodollars.
Herbert Marcuse Remembered

Sep 6, 2017

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rsburke

Paul Buhle reviews "The Great Refusal; Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements."
Red State, Blue State; Green State, Deep State

Sep 4, 2017

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fitzdon

Given all the commotion over the past week or so, some of it right here on CounterPunch, you’d think that “rogue” journalist Caitlin Johnstone was the reincarnation of Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens made his fateful pact with the neocons of the Bush administration. Johnstone is now offering a tentative hand of solidarity to white nationalists. Johnstone…
Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Had Defeated the Colonists’ Bid for Independence?

Sep 2, 2017

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fitzdon

"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." — Marquis de Lafayette, French military leader who was instrumental in enlisting French support for the colonists in the American War of Independence. Historians have long grappled with the…
North Korea’s Fast Track Missile Development: How Far It’s Come and Why It Has the U.S. on Edge

Aug 31, 2017

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fitzdon

Since President Trump took office, North Korea has conducted a flurry of missile tests, triggering a wave of condemnation by U.S. media and political figures. The reaction contains more than an element of fear-mongering, and it is sometimes implied that once North Korea has an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), it is liable to launch an…
A Most Bizarre Green Party Convention

Aug 29, 2017

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fitzdon

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A Most Bizarre Green Party Convention by Don Fitz Happenings at the first Missouri Green Party (MOGP) convention since it obtained ballot status were unusual, to say the least. They issue warnings to state Green Parties across the US as well as for any group that seeks to empower members to make decisions collectively.…
Jeremy Corbyn, the failed war on terror, Manchester and Britain’s secret imperial wars

Aug 24, 2017

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squirrel

Britain’s Libyan adventure is part and parcel of the imperialist state’s long history of secret foreign interventions. Britain’s empire ended a long time ago, but its role as an imperialist garrison-state did not.
Enough Nonsense! The Left Does Not Collaborate with Fascists

Aug 23, 2017

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fitzdon

Waterboard me! Give me the Ludovico Technique with the Atlas Shrugged Trilogy playing on an endless loop! Anything, anything at all would be better than having to write about Caitlin Johnstone and the ongoing back-and-forth about her so called “journalism.” And yet, here I am, doing precisely that because, quite frankly, some things have to…
Revisiting the Meidner Plan

Aug 22, 2017

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rsburke

Peter Gowan and Mio Tastas Viktorsson revisit the history of one genuine attempt to use government policy to promote worker self-management. They argue that similar policies can be used to promote social ownership today.