Category: Capitalism

• Thursday Morning Notes: Capitalism, Republicans, Elections, Corruption, Biden, Delusion

  May 7, 2020

  American exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, CDC, Democracy, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Uncategorized

  Morning Musings: The Trump pressers and the now daily appearances are humiliation sessions. Trump regularly demeans and silences the voices of reporters and this morning, a nurse who has first hand experience working with the Coronavirus.  This is what authoritarian governments do, normalize the silencing of dissent.  Every time Trump silences, demeans, and both demands… Read.

• Interview with Sarah Kenzior: Hiding in Plain Sight

  May 6, 2020

  Authoritarianism, Bill Barr, books, Capitalism, China, Coronavirus, CORPORATE MEDIA, Democracy, Economy, Graft, Greed and Corruption, International, Justice Department, Republican Party, Rule of Law, Trump, Uncategorized

  Deep State Radio Podcast Home 5/5/20 Interview with Sarah Kenzior about her new book “Hiding in Plain Sight.” Notes from the interview: The Mueller investigation was deeply problematic in that Mueller completely avoided investigating Trump’s finances and the close connection with the Russian Mafia. Mueller also refused to indict or even interview key people like… Read.

• Friday Notes: America’s Lawyer, Bailout Theft, Media, Science

  May 1, 2020

  Capitalism, CDC, Coronavirus, Corporate Crime, CORPORATE MEDIA, Democracy, Democratic Party, Economy, Uncategorized

  Friday Notes: As the corporate media becomes more and more useless, we must turn to other sources. Podcast: America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio April 1, 2020 Episode: The risks to meat packing employees of the mandated openings; the complicity of the Democrats in the class rip-off of the stimulus bill; Schumer and fast-tracking judicial appointments; claims… Read.

• The Aim is to Smash the Table: The Power Worshipers by Katherine Stewart

  April 28, 2020

  Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Christo-Fascist authoritarian state, Cult, Democracy, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Political crimes, politics, Pretended Patriotism, Republican Party, Rule of Law, The right

  The Power Worshipers Notes on an Interview on CSPAN with author Katherine Stewart Katherine Stewart in a CSPAN interview, points out that Trump wouldn’t be in office without the “Christina nationalists.”  There is a myth that these people “held their noses” and voted for Trump in a transactional way, but that is not true.  This… Read.

• Robert Redfield, CDC: “a sloppy scientist with a long history of scientific misconduct and an extreme religious agenda.”

  April 24, 2020

  Authoritarianism, Bill Barr, Capitalism, CDC, Christo-Fascist authoritarian state, Coronavirus, Cult, Drugs, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, MSNBC, Republican Party, Rule of Law, The right, Trump

  Trump and the Republicans are working to establish a Christo-fascist one party authoritarian state.  The corporate media refuses to take this situation seriously, acting as if Trump’s personal disdain of science is just that, some kind of personal peccadillo.  It’s not.  The Republican party has worked for decades to erode public confidence in science and… Read.

• Alternative Media: Trump Watch Podcast

  April 23, 2020

  Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Coronavirus, Cult, Democracy, Economy, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, International, media, money in politics, MSNBC, Reporters, Republican Party, Supreme Court, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  As the corporate media becomes more and more useless in covering the Trump/Republican administration and the coronavirus crisis, we must seek alternative sources of news. Try the “Trump Watch” Podcast. In the April 16 episode, they do an interview with John Nichols from the Nation Magazine about the attempt by the Republicans to control voting… Read.

• “…companies with political connections…”

  April 22, 2020

  Capitalism, Coronavirus, Corporate Crime, Democracy, Drugs, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Republican Party

  THE BIGGEST CLASS THEFT IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY The New York Times is reporting today that a doctor, Dr. Rick Bright , who was Director of the Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, was removed from his position… Read.

• Head-on conflict with the self-interest of concentrated private capital

  April 20, 2020

  Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Coronavirus, CORPORATE MEDIA, Economy, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Joe Biden

  The corporate media is a complete waste of time.  They failed us in 2016 and they are spectacularly failing us now.  We must turn to other news sources.  These are excerpts from The Nation Magazine. Grey, Rohan, Nation Manazine, April 20/27 2020). Biden indicated that as president, he would veto Medicare for All legislation because… Read.

• The Real Enemy…timidity, selfishness and greed.

  April 17, 2020

  Capitalism, Coronavirus, Democracy, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Uncategorized, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  But the real enemy, the one we have always been at war against, is the violence and despair of our own timidity, selfishness, and greed. For too long, we have responded to this enemy with appeasement. But appeasement has proven to be a losing strategy, as indeed it always is. The only way we will… Read.

• Why Free Market Capitalism Will Bury Us, Literally

  April 16, 2020

  Capitalism, Coronavirus, Corporate Crime, CORPORATE MEDIA, Drugs, Economy, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Law and Justic, media, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  Amid the absurdly trivial corporate media coverage of the Coronavirus crisis, are stories that slip by unnoticed.  One of them is another investigation, another investigation by a congressional subcommittee about whether “the U.S. government is paying too much for ventilators made by a Dutch company that received millions in tax dollars to develop an affordable… Read.

• BOOK: Death in Mud Lick. Corporate Crime, Greed and Destruction

  April 7, 2020

  Books on Politics, Capitalism, Corporate Crime, Drugs, Economy, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Law and Justic, Reporters, Rule of Law, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  Review of Death in Mud Lick Dwight Garner, “How Painkiller Pushers Took over Coal Country.” nyt Eric Eyre, the reporter who wrote this book, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2017.  One of the important things he did was to expose, for the first time, in exact numbers, opioid shipments to West Virginia. … Read.

• “We Don’t Have Time.”

  April 5, 2020

  American exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Collusion, Coronavirus, CORPORATE MEDIA, Democracy, Drugs, Economy, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Neoliberalism, Republican Party, The right

  The disaster that is the Trump administration reaction to and handling of the Coronavirus crisis has been decades in the making.  It is the result of raising to seriousness for political purposes, willful ignorance, superstition, and an anti-science bias. The right and the Republican Party saw political benefit in cultivating those traits in the population. … Read.

• Trump’s Action Raised the Democras’ Ire

  April 4, 2020

  Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Corporate Crime, Democracy, Democratic Party, Economy, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Impeachment, Neoliberalism, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  The Trump Administration is using every method available to centralize power in the United States and transform what once was a democracy into an authoritarian kleptocratic state.  The Democrats are sitting by and allowing them to do it. Friday night, Trump fired Michael Atkinson, the senior official who first alerted Congress that a whistleblower complaint… Read.

• Interesting Books: Patriotic Dissent

  April 3, 2020

  American exceptionalism, Capitalism, Government, International, Military Industrial Complex, Pretended Patriotism

  You can listen to an interview with the author on the podcast “Scheer Intelligence.”  https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence         Read.

• Thursday Night Blog Notes: Scams, Coronavirus, Free-For-All, Meaningless Statistics, Trump, Corruption, Graft, Greed

  April 2, 2020

  Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Collusion, Coronavirus, Corporate Crime, Democracy, Democratic Party, Economy, Graft, Greed and Corruption, money in politics, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  Thursday Night Blog Notes I can’t even keep up with the Trump scams surrounding this coronavirus crisis. Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, is claiming that he just now learned that asymptomatic people could pass on the coronavirus to other people. Every day there’s another presser with Trump congratulating corporate CEOs and touting meaningless statistics.… Read.