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Short overview of New York Magazine's take on Greenwald on Trumpgate and Russiagate.  The whole article at New York is worth a read. Example. Greenwald is no longer invited on MSNBC, and he’s portrayed in the Twitter fever swamp as a leading villain of the self-styled Resistance. “I used to be really good friends with Rachel Maddow,” he says. “And I’ve seen her devolution from this really interesting, really smart, independent thinker into this utterly scripted, intellectually...

Useful commentary and links. real economicsThe decline and fall of neoliberalism in the Democratic PartyTony Wikrent

Have these people lost their minds? Who would ever vote for them?  The whole stable needs to be cleaned out.Zero HedgePutin Plot? Democrats Ridiculed For Claiming Moscow Behind Chelsea Manning's Senate Run Tyler Durden Also The Intercept Centrist Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight White Man in Power Glenn Greenwald

More fake news from the Democrats. At its most basic, the report must be seen as a shot in the bitter partisan conflict which is currently raging in the US between President Trump and his Democratic Party opponents. That the primary target of the report is actually President Trump – who continues to say that he wants better relations with Russia – is confirmed by these words in the report.... While this may be political on the part of Democrat and Never Trumpers, it also reflects the view...

Marco Rubio has second thoughts. Watch GOP candidates up for reelection in 2018 backpedal.Grasping RealityAnd now it is official: the official non-Trumpist Republican line is now that all of that stuff about the tax "reform" bill delivering materially faster economic growth in exchange for widening inequality was just boob bait for the bubbas.Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

The Russia Investigation shifts to Clinton's Political Rivals Jumping the shark? How long are American liberals going to put up with this nonsense? How long before they wash the mud from their eyes and acknowledge what should be as plain as the nose on their face; that their precious investigation of Donald Trump is nothing more than a witch hunt designed to intimidate or destroy political rivals? The persecution of Jill Stein strips away the facade once and for all exposing Russia-gate...

Good summary of the narrative manufactured to distract from Democratic failures and to discredit the 2017 US general election. This is the sort of behavior previously seen almost exclusively in banana republics. What are the consequences of the spectacle the media call (with characteristic originality) ‘Russiagate’? The most immediate consequence is that, by finding foreign demons who can be blamed for Trump’s ascendancy, the Democratic leadership have shifted the blame for their defeat...

The fact that Donald Trump built his political reputation on the lie that Barack Obama was born in Kenya should have been a tip-off to this, but here we are.…  “I don't think I went overboard,” Trump said in 2013. “Actually, I think it made me very popular. . . . I do think I know what I'm doing.” Salon The birther blemish: Republicans still think Barack Obama was born in Kenya Jarrett Lyons

IntroductionThe American welfare state was created in 1935 and continued to develop through 1973. Since then, over a prolonged period, the capitalist class has been steadily dismantling the entire welfare state.Between the mid 1970’s to the present (2017) labor laws, welfare rights and bene ts and the construction of and subsidies for a ordable housing have been gutted. ‘Workfare’ (under President ‘Bill’ Clinton) ended welfare for the poor and displaced workers. Meanwhile the shift to...

David Stockman is a lot better at analyzing politics than economics. He presents the case against Russiagate and shows how it is based on the politicization of intelligence and fake news reverberating in the media echo chamber. It is joining Paul Craig Roberts and Pat Buchanan as an establishment "turncoat." "the Deep State has turned its own crimes during and after the 2016 election into nothing less than a coup d'etat against American democracy" Russia InsiderStockman: Why the Deep State...