Showing posts with label social democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social democracy. Show all posts
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020

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REVEALED: UK Officials Inflated COVID Hospital Numbers at Height of ‘Pandemic’ from 21st Century Wire . Are You Ready for the “No One Could...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 9, 2020

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Over the Rainbow: Paths of Resistance After George Floyd by Jim Kavanagh from CounterPunch .  My reaction: The author explains how the ...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 29, 2020 (part 2 of 2)

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  Fabricated Shocks and Open Windows by Mark Taliano from Global Research . A Rendezvous with Destiny? by Nomi Prins from TomDispatch ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 22, 2020 (part 2 of 2 parts)

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(Note: I have posted today's articles in two parts because I was worried about YouTube censors taking down an article in part one before...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, February 14, 2020

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A Short History of Humanity’s Future by Manuel García, Jr. from CounterPunch . January 2020 Temperature Anomaly from Arctic News . (No...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, February 10, 2020

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Bernie Sanders' Commie Kill Swarm by CJ Hopkins, in my opinion the top US satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I tho...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

How the U.S. Created the Cold War (A re-post of an error ridden commentary on 12/22/2019)

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(Note on this commentary: I feel it is necessary to re-post an important article and my commentary which I posted on 12/22/2019--since corr...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism [a must-read and understand]

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Click here to access article by Michèle Brand posted on CounterPunch .  This analysis of the welfare state ("social democracy")...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

My commentary regarding yesterday's posts by Michael Hudson

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by Ron Horn for this website. (Edited for clarity at 4:55 PM Seattle time.) My dramatic reaction to these articles, but primarily the last...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Big Brother Capitalism Strikes Back

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Click here to access article by Paul Street from CounterPunch . What the title refers to is how the capitalist ruled state fights governm...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics

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Click here to access article by Sam Mitrani and Chad Pearson from CounterPunch . Although I agree with much of this article, I also have ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

The 21st Century Doesn't Need a New Deal -- It Needs a New Economic Model

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Click here to access article by C.J. Polychroniou from TruthOut . For those of us who decided long ago the question of whether reform of ...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Why “Twenty-First-Century Socialism” Failed

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Click here to access article by Eva María from Jacobin .  This article is overly long and I think you can skip most of the first part. Wh...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Roots to Social Democracy/Capitalism, Socialism: The Failure of Social Democracy (Part 2 of 7) [A must read post]

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Click here to access article by Ron Ridenour from Dissident Voice . (I am not posting Part 1 because I think it is largely subsumed in thi...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Venezuela - a last warning

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Click here to access article by Jorge Martín from In Defense of Marxism .  Martin's analysis of current conditions in Venezuela impre...
Monday, February 22, 2016

An Austere Place of Refuge

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Click here to access article by Joseph Grim Feinberg from LeftEast (based in Romania) From the "About" section: This is not...
Monday, December 7, 2015

The Causes and Consequences of Venezuelan Election Results

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Click here to access article by Tamara Pearson from Telesur . Bad news for all progressive people in South America and the world who have...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Development From Below

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Click here to access an interview by Jacobin a publisher with Vivek Chibber. In early October, Jacobin publisher Bhaskar Sunkara spoke t...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

A "Schultz faction" undermines negotiations with Greece

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Click here to access article from the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens. It appears to me that this is a translation of an article pub...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Ballots or Bullets: Democracy and World Power

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Click here to access article by James Petras from his website. Petras provides this introduction to his essay in a PDF format. The prin...