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An interesting discussion:[embedded content]Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left BlogRealist Left on YouTubeLord Keynes on FacebookSocial Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern LeftAlt Left on the Internet:Alternative Left on FacebookAlt-Left on Google+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom Loving LeftistI’m on Twitter: Lord Keynes...

In a laughably paradoxical way, because this clip is taken from a *pro-Hillary* documentary he made before the election actually urging people to vote for her:[embedded content]So one reason Trump won?: he threatened corporate America with the imposition of tariffs on their treasonous free trade outsourcing of American production, and working people in the rust belt were overjoyed.And, incidentally, the title of that documentary of Michael Moore? Most brutally ironic one ever, Mike:Realist...

There are everywhere, and mostly worthless.But this one actually has some good points:[embedded content]The regressive left strategy of social constructivism, identity politics, mass immigration, multiculturalism, and political correctness is dead. It is a death sentence for the Left. But, then, I have been saying this for over a year now, and it is nice to see the truth slowly dawning.Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left...

And most of it unhinged or just wretchedly stupid:(1) Michael Moore on CNN:[embedded content](2) Paul Mason in the Guardian here is simply deranged.(3) Simon Schama on BBC Newsnight seems to think Trump is literally Hitler:[embedded content](4) Nigel Farage and others on a panel:[embedded content](5) Pepe Escobar at Counterpunch actually has something insightful to say about Trump’s protectionism here.(6) the libertarian Justin Raimondo has an interesting discussion of Trump here from the...

An interesting discussion here on the TheRealNews:[embedded content]To perform an economic miracle and revive the US economy, Trump needs to:(1) implement protectionist policies to re-industrialise America;(2) increase government spending on a massive infrastructure program and cut taxes (preferably for the working and middle class) in order to run huge Keynesian deficits, and(3) radically reduce legal and illegal immigration, and indeed – as hostile as the Left is to this – start to deport...

His victory speech, which was very gracious indeed:[embedded content]As we can see here, Trump won the key states of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the last four of which form part of that area of the country badly hit by deindustrialisation and free trade.Unlike other people on the left who are hysterical over this (I have people on my Facebook feed telling me fascism has come to the US), I am cautiously optimistic, since this is quite clearly a massive blow against...

I don’t know, but his latest powerful “Argument for America” ad – apart from the anti-Federal Reserve nonsense (which seems quasi-libertarian) – is absolutely a message of anti-globalisation and anti-free trade:[embedded content]That ad is, more or less, a masterpiece. This man, whether he wins or loses, deserves huge credit for having raised economic issues that the left has been talking about for years and years: namely, the disaster of free trade, the disaster of de-industrialisation and...

The recent interview with Julian Assange on the US election and Wikileaks:[embedded content]

I limit myself to the great, older figures below.Good short biographies can be found in these works:Arestis, Philip and Malcolm Sawyer (eds.). 1991. A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. Elgar, Aldershot.Harcourt, G. C. 1993. Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography: Portraits of Twentieth-Century Political Economists. Macmillan, Basingstoke.Here is a list of biographies, and other relevant works:John Maynard Keynes Skidelsky, R. J. A. 1983. John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed...

Clinton in one of the Podesta emails dated to 2014 that can be read here admitted privately that the Saudi and Qatari governments fund ISIS:“While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”...