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The thinking must be that young people don't vote anyway and when they get old, they will like their parents.Common DreamsGOP in Danger of Losing Younger Generation of Voters Over Climate Policies: Report Eoin Higgins

“The claim that Russia attacked America during the 2016 presidential election is both exceedingly dangerous and a complete falsehood,” says Stephen Cohen on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay…TRNNIs Russian ‘Meddling’ an Attack on America?Paul Jay interviews Stephen CohenSee alsoThe arrest of Julian Assange was an act of revenge by the US government that strikes at the heart of journalism….Asia TimesYou have the right to always remain silentPepe Escobar A recently declassified CIA document...

A bevy of lawmakers in Congress alarmed by soaring deficits are calling yet again for a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget — but this time it’s Democrats. The so-called Blue Dog Coalition of moderate Democrats on Tuesday endorsed an amendment that would require Washington to balance the budget except in case of war or recession.... Are they for the return of the gold standard, too?Market WatchAnd now for something different: Democrats call for balanced-budget...

While military spending subsidizes a certain lifestyle for some, it also contributes to trends that put the rest of the country at risk. Excess expenditure over the requirements of purpose is wasteful and constitutes a subsidy.While the economics of the article is out of paradigm with MMT, the author is a professor of politics and economics is peripheral to his argument.He doesn't mention the push from the right to increase military spending for "national security" reasons, followed by an...

Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen: At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who,...

Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, is almost never mentioned specifically by members of Congress who negotiate budget and appropriations measures, but it is working its way into the mainstream political debate. Now, it’s gotten some Democratic lawmakers’ attention as the party considers big-ticket policy priorities. That includes House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who will decide over the next few weeks whether to produce a fiscal 2020 budget resolution that maps out the caucus’s...

The Democratic Party is experiencing a Tea Party-like moment that the GOP went through subsequent to the G. W. Bush administration fiasco, an improbable consequence of which was the election of Donald Trump as a "populist" candidate, surprising the pundits, sparking a soft coup attempt, and challenging the GOP establishment. This dynamic is still in play. Now the Democratic Party establishment aka "corporate Democrats." "Clinton Democrats." and "Third Way Democrats" is being similarly...

Is the US morphing into its former arch-enemy that it believes to have vanquished and relegated to the trash can of history? In addition, Professor Cohen did not mention other similarities with totalitarian states, such as restriction of constitutional rights and civil liberties through legislation like the Patriot Act and the establishment of a Department of Homeland Security and the militarization of the national security force creating essentially a police state, especially  when...

Serious blunder on the part of Pelosi. The Establishment is showing signs of desperation.The 2016 election should have showed the Democratic establishment that poking progressives in the eye was fatal. The 2018 election should have demonstrated the growing power and influence of progressives. The demographic projections should inform the "centrists" that the future of the Democratic Party belongs to the left as the youth rising in numbers and influence come to power.But losers will be...

The older generation may not like it but the world they created and are trying to passing on, or pass off, is being rejected by the younger generation, which favorable to socialism. Why is that? What is capitalism? Favoring capital (ownership) over labor (people) and land (environment).  What is socialism? Favoring labor (people) and land (environment) over ownership. No-brainer unless you have been brainwashed by ownership. Occasional Links & CommentarySocialism and...