I suppose it was only a matter of time before the “Russia-Gate” hoax spread to Bernie Sanders. Apparently Putin was not just working overtime to get Trump elected, he was already hard at work in 2015 sending out his flying monkey trolls to support Bernie Sanders. Sigh. The Russia-related attacks…
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EuroYankee is a dual citizen, US-EU. He travels around Europe, writing on politics, culture and such. He pays his US taxes so he gets to weigh in on what is happening in the States.
This is Neoliberalism, Part III: How We Build Empire
When your only chance at social and economic mobility lies in killing people or possibly being killed yourself. Anyone who remembers the Iraq War of 2003 remembers Jessica Lynch, the first “American hero” of that conflict. Her convoy had been ambushed behind enemy lines and she was the last soldier…
This is Neoliberalism, Part II: Alienation and Mass Sociopathy by Design
Human evolution taught us to work with each other. Neoliberalism teaches us to compete with each other. In Part I of this series, in which I listed the 10 Tenets of Neoliberalism, I stated the following as the third tenet: 3. Because the Market is an impartial and efficient distributor of…
Troll Smear Nr. 15: “Bernie and Jane are Corrupt”
The screwy accusation of “bank fraud” started by right wing smear merchants and now pushed by anti-Bernie Democrats. This smear has two iterations: 1) Jane Sanders committed bank fraud to obtain a loan for her employer, Burlington College, based on false income projections from donors. 2) Bernie Sanders worked with…
The Troll Smears Against Bernie Must Be Stopped — Here’s How to Do It
A rapid response guide to 20 classic anti-Bernie smears Roy Delfino is typical of the critics of Bernie Sanders, and his baseless propaganda and misshapen worldview embodies everything that is wrong with the current Democratic Party. Normally, I would not pay Roy Delfino much attention at all, because he appears…
“Miss Me Nyet?” — Why the Fall of the USSR was a Disaster for America and the World
Part 1: A Little Revolution Can be Good Franklin Delano Roosevelt is often credited with having “saved Capitalism in America”. Indeed, FDR even described himself as “the greatest friend the profit system ever had.” This is an obvious truth when taken in the historical context. When FDR took office, the…
Three Reasons why the Democratic Elite Will Never Give Up the Russia-Gate Narrative
For almost 2 years, the Democrats have pushed a narrative purporting that Russians, operating at the direct orders of Vladimir Putin, have been working to subvert American Democracy and install a puppet in power in the form of Donald Trump. First, it was the Russian Hacking hoax_—_the idea that the…
Four – No – FIVE Reasons Why Bernie Sanders Needs to Form a New Party
Updated 20 October 2017 Bernie Sanders needs to form and lead a new party in order to effect badly needed change in American politics. This is very clear to some, perhaps less clear to others, and oftentimes seems to be a nebulous topic when the Senator himself talks about the…
This is Neoliberalism, Part I: The 10 Tenets of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is the idea that the Market is the Mother of all Things. The tenets of Neoliberalism are as follows: 1.”Market-based” solutions are the most stable and are inherently more sustainable than “top down” publicly funded programmes that rely on the “arbitrary” redistribution of wealth and resources. 2. The Market…
For the Many, Not the Few: How the UK Elections were a Proxy Battle for US Democrats
Some important take-aways from the UK election that you might not hear in the MSM: Firstly, we should consider that this was a proxy election for the US in many ways, in which the two sides of the Democratic Civil War were going at each other: Barack Obama openly supported…
All Kidding Aside, There Are Some Serious Questions About Seth Rich’s Murder
I’m not saying anything, except that there is some weird shit going on around this Seth Rich story. I guess the most interesting aspect is that the DNC, the DC Power Elite, the CIA and John Brennan personally, as well as other Intel officials, would all have a very powerful…
Democratic “Liberal” Elites are Destroying the Country
First of all, I suggest everyone read Thomas Frank’s book, Listen, Liberal. In it, he makes the case that there is such a thing as the Liberal Elite. These are the people running the Democratic Party and most of DC. They are an Elite because they have advanced degrees from…
Don’t Blame the Berners
Many DNC and Clinton defenders seem to completely misunderstand the problems that many voters had with Hillary. It was not her voice, her tone, her demeanour, or the fact that she was a woman. It was the fact that she was a corrupt career politician who was a warmonger and…
The Bernie Sanders Rapid Response Library 5.0
Tired of the MSM and Clintonista trolls talking smack about our guy? Wish you had some statistics and facts – or maybe just some snappy comebacks – to combat their bullshit attacks and dismissive smears? Here is my own “Rapid Response Library” to use as a reference – some facts,…
What is Neoliberalism, and How Did It Give Us Trump?
A lot of people are talking about “Neoliberalism” and I think many wonder: what does it actually mean? Well, there are two ways of looking at it, and they both depend on breaking the word up into its two components: “Neo” (new) and “Liberalism”. I think the confusion comes about…
Social Justice vs. Economic Justice: The False Dichotomy of Identity Politics
I had a revelation today about the on-going debates between Hillary and Bernie supporters in the wake of the 2016 Election. Bernie has given interviews in which he rails against what he calls the “Liberal Elites” —the establishment faction of the Democratic Party—who are focused on identity politics of gender…
My Trip through Bill Clinton’s Arkansas
In the late fall of 1990 a friend and I made a cross country trip from Connecticut to California. We decided to travel via the Southern route, which took us through Arkansas, where Bill Clinton was halfway through serving his second term as Governor. We overnighted in a town outside…
The Progressive Case for Donald Trump
How This Case Is Made First, let me say that I am NOT advocating that any Progressive EVER vote for Donald Trump. The purpose of this article is to elucidate reasons why, as Progressives in a duopolistic system with only two viable candidates, we should hope to see Donald Trump…
A Green Party Plea to my Cousin in California
My dear cousin: as you know, I take exception to your assertion that politics is “persuasion” and that Jill Stein has made her case to the American people and “failed to persuade” enough of them. I have been thinking about your statement and realised that what really bothered me about…
The Conservative Case for Hillary Clinton
To Know Hillary, Look at Her Husband and Barack Obama “Only Nixon could go to China.” This is now a maxim of American politics, a metaphor for the political phenomenon I call “inoculated immunity”. This is when a politician is deemed by the public to have a set of political…