What Ted Kennedy and John Sweeney Built On By Harold Meyerson Friday, August 28, 2009 The death of Ted Kennedy precedes by three weeks the end of John Sweeney’s 14-year tenure as president of the AFL-CIO. Together, these events signal the end of an epoch in American political history: that of Irish American leadership of the nation’s [...]
Robert W. McChesney Monthly Review, April 1, 1999 NEOLIBERALISM is the defining political economic paradigm of our time – it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit. Associated initially with Reagan [...]
Leaving Obamaland–none a moment too soon, but delusions remain Dateline: 08/26/2009 – 10:29 By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats could accomplish nothing during the Bush years, they told us, for the first six years because they were a minority, and during the last two because Republicans could filibuster. Now, with both houses of congress, [...]
CROSSPOSTED WITH THE World Socialist Web Site Council of Economic Advisers analysis Essentially a conservative proposal, the Obama health care overhaul is based on cost-cutting and deficit reduction (“affordability”), not the principle of free access to all who need medical services. By Kate Randall 26 August 2009 Appearing on conservative talk-show host Michael Smerconish’s radio [...]
PHOTO: TED KENNEDY IN THE EARLY PART OF HIS CAREER.
A tragic figure who meant well, but who incarnated the very real limits of Democratic party politics and American centrists in general, the death of Massachusetts Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy on Tuesday marks the end of the Kennedy family’s role as a major force in American politics. Ted Kennedy, who succumbed to brain cancer at age 77, served 47 years in the Senate. He was the last significant political representative of a family that loomed large in American political consciousness for more than half a century.
Has Obama lost the trust of progressives, as Krugman says? By Glenn Greenwald salon.com 8/21/09 Paul Krugman has an excellent column [1] today arguing that progressives have backlashed so intensely over the prospect of Obama’s dropping the public option because — for reasons extending far beyond specific health care issues — they no longer trust [...]
Lessons in Leadership: Why Obama Needs to Brush Up on His FDR By Arianna Huffington Watching the gun-toting, Nazi-sign-holding town hall crazies, the talk radio charlatans, and the Palin-infected politicos, my first instinct has been to rally around President Obama and defend his handling of the health care debate against this Cuckoo’s Nest menagerie. But [...]
Crosspost with http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/248.php#continue The B u l l e t • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 248 • August 13, 2009 After decades of steady assault on working class gains, the corporate class is winning in North America, and its model of “pauperization” is pushing across continents. By Sam Gindin The attack on private [...]
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