Rumsfeld: The Unknown Known (Documentary)

In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fof of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, who served as George W. Bush's secretary of defense and as the principal architect of the Iraq War.

Complications with Kiev

Victor Grossman Portside
Just watching staid Angela Merkel and stout Sigmar Gabriel trying to straddle the crevice - figuratively speaking - was quite a sight, no easy matter for the chancellor or the vice-chancellor, who is also head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

The Skills Zombie

Economist Paul Krugman The New York Times
Yet the skills story just keeps showing up in supposedly informed discussion. Again, I think that this is because it sounds like the kind of thing serious people should say.

Rejecting TPP, AFL-CIO’s Trumka Calls for ‘Global New Deal’

Bruce Vail Working in These Times
"We have a choice, and we will choose between the world economy of today—with slow growth, high unemployment and obscene levels of inequality—and the world of tomorrow, of broadly shared prosperity. We will choose between a world of wealth for the 1%, with poverty for the rest of us, and a world in which all of us who work hard can enjoy the fruits of our labor."