Please read Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
by Rod Kessler Before retiring six years ago, when I was a professor of creative writing, I taught students in Comp. I the distinction between a word’s denotation and its connotation. If denotation was what a word meant, connotation got to its emotional tone. Words that mean the same thing—synonyms—typically have different “flavors.” Would you […]
Continue ReadingFrom Labor Notes: Corporations Claiming to Love Black Lives Fight Against Living Wages and Unions Never underestimate the American business community’s capacity for hypocrisy. That’s one of the lessons to be drawn from the explosive reaction to George Floyd’s murder. As demonstrators began flooding streets, corporate PR departments flew into rapid response mode, issuing a […]
Continue ReadingThe Black Lives Matter (BLM) rebellion which demands more power for the powerless, goes directly against the Koch agenda, which calls for more power for billionaires. BLM is on TikTok (Link to TikTok #BlackLivesMatter)! If you get your information solely from mainstream media, you have no idea what is actually happening on the streets of […]
Continue ReadingOn our website UnChainDemocracy.org and in our Newsletters we have tried to expose the billionaire Libertarian / right wing/ Koch network that has gained control of Trump’s Republican party and works to undermine our democracy. Their agenda can be summarized by the title of this article. The Black Lives Matter movement is the most direct and […]
Continue ReadingFrom Jack Weltner about HR 1 In the past year, eight states have voted to make paper ballots illegal. In Texas’s March 3 primary, over 300 polling places were closed at the last minute, chiefly places heavily populated by the poor and immigrants. Likewise, widely reported delays, faulty machines, and long lines in Georgia’s recent June 9th […]
Continue ReadingBlack Lives Matter and the Libertarian Far-right by Rod Kessler Followers of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains might wonder whether racist violence by police and the broadening Black Lives Matter movement are linked to the Koch network and the damage it has done over the decades to progressive initiatives in American society. Or, when it […]
Continue ReadingLink – what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it
Continue ReadingLINK – a place where bad ideas never die – from OpenDemocracy Inequality is good. Religious freedom trumps public good. In the Civil War, the wrong side won. American exceptionalism. The myth of redemptive violence.
Continue Readingfrom Jack Weltner, by Kristin Flyntz STOP: An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans Stop. Just stop.It is no longer a request. It is a mandate.We will help you.We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt We will stop the planes the trains the schools the mall s the meetings the frenetic, hurried […]
Continue ReadingThose who justifiably rail against Trump’s refusal to mobilize government resources to fight Covid-19, miss the underlying cause of his distractions and inaction. He became and remains president only because the Koch network mobilized its vast resources to support him in the election, to staff his cabinet, the White House, and the Supreme Court with […]
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