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Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo

January 11, 2019

Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.

Stacey Abrams | How to Respond to Setbacks

January 11, 2019

In an electrifying talk, Stacey Abrams shares the lessons she learned from her campaign for governor of Georgia, some advice on how to change the world -- and a few hints at her next steps. "Be aggressive about your ambition," Abrams says.

January 11, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | January 11, 2019

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Stacey Abrams | How to Respond to Setbacks. Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo. Trump Will 'Definitely' Declare A National Emergency, 'Probably'. What Is Emergence? Surviving R. Kelly: Bonus

January 10, 2019

Damn It All: A Meditation on Hell

Stephen Greenblatt The New York Review of Books

Charting the origins of the Christian idea of a vast underground realm where the souls of sinners were hauled to suffer eternal punishments by fiends, the author walks readers through a panoply of sadistic fantasies long considered revealed truths.

January 10, 2019

Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India

Vijay Prashad Common Dreams

If a new trade union law goes into effect, India will essentially abandon any commitment to workplace democracy. The workers do not want this. They are on the streets. They have other plans for their future.

January 10, 2019

Tidbits - Jan. 10, 2019 - Reader Comments - Lots (and Lots) on Impeachment; AOC 70% Tax Rate; New Attack on Angela Davis and Free Speech; NAFTA; Border Security and much more...

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Reader Comments: Impeachment; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Returning to a 70% Marginal Tax Rate; TSA Agents Call-In Sick and the Right to Strike (Not); New Attack on Civil Rights Icon Angela Davis, Jews, BDS and Anti-Semitism; and so much more.....

January 10, 2019

What Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Know About Tax Policy? A Lot.

Paul Krugman The New York Times

AOC’s advocacy of a tax rate of 70-80 percent on very high incomes, is obviously crazy, right? Who thinks that makes sense? Only ignorant people like - Peter Diamond, Nobel laureate in economics, arguably the world’s leading expert on public finance

January 10, 2019

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers — and the Border Patrol Played a Role

Greg Grandin and Elizabeth Oglesby The Nation

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. The agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history. It has has operated with near impunity, becoming arguably the most politicized branch of federal law enforcement...

January 10, 2019

From Yellow Vests to the Green New Deal

Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate

The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope to the badly battered establishment: they should embrace it - make it part of the progressive agenda. We need something positive to save us from ugly wave of populism, nativism...

January 10, 2019

Birmingham City Council Unanimously Approves Resolution of Support for Dr. Angela Davis; Group Sets Celebration of Angela Davis, Protests BRCI Revoking Its Award

Birmingham City Council; Solomon Crenshaw Jr. Birmingham City Council

After news that broke over the weekend that the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded an award that was to be presented to Dr. Angela Davis, the Birmingham City Council unanimously passed a resolution of support for the civil rights icon.