Progressive Poetry: ‘It’s Not The Time (Lost Causes)’
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Propaganda
Techno Capitalism: A Fever Burning Everywhere
This is the information storm that never ends. How should progressives and other leftists navigate it? How should anyone navigate it?
A Comfortable Betrayal
Most professionals refuse to risk the comfortable and lucrative positions they’ve staked out in the false debate of the mainstream narrative.
As the Debt Ceiling Approaches, a Fiscal Myth Echoes Across the Landscape of Politics
Here, I see not only the irony, but the dishonesty, gaslighting behavior, and outright immorality in the Republican blueprint for paying off their donors while planning to scream “fiscal irresponsibility” at progressive policies which would provide for deficit spending for public purpose rather than for the benefit of donors.
Trigger Warning: Women’s Rights Have Little To Do With Race
Women’s rights, by definition, can’t be expected to advocate issues that affect the rights of men and male-identifying individuals. Nor can they effectively advocate for race issues.
Intersectional Dismantling of Systemic Racism
So while everything everyone else may be doing is vital to the cause, the systemic racism will not stop until those who have perpetrated it for centuries are made to realize what they’re doing. What we’re doing.
Alice in Wonderland
The only way we’re going to fix this problem is to stop feeding the monster and listen to those who tell us the truth, whether we like it or not. Because in the end, the choice is truly ours. Either we listen to those who speak the truth and educate us, or we continue to listen to the Jabberwocky.
Making Sense of Syria
Most of us have likely seen the horrifying images and videos coming from Syria for the last few years. Invariably, the news agencies bringing these images and videos to us present them as evidence of Assad’s “brutal, totalitarian regime”. A little research paints a disturbingly conflicting picture.
The Return of the Blacklist: What’s Next — Book Burning?
How the establishment is trying to ‘blacklist’ progressive sources as pro-Russian