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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Andrea Germanos follows up on the IMF’s realization that handing free money and power to corporations does nothing for the economy as it affects people’s lives. And Susie Cagle examines the role of tech money -…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Fascist Question
Donald Trump may be looking and sounding crazier than ever. Calling for guns to be allowed in classrooms.While also calling for Hillary Clinton's bodyguards to be disarmed.But despite his deranged statements, polls suggest his support is surging.Re…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Will Not Surrender
Bernie Sanders won another Democratic primary yesterday, this time in West Virginia.White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do li…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Frank examines how market outcomes are shaped disproportionately by luck rather than significant differences in merit:(W)ith each extension of the highway, rail, and canal systems, shipping costs fell sh…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Can Donald Trump Defeat Hillary Clinton?
It was a strange scene. Donald Trump had just won the Indiana primary, and all but sewn up the Republican nomination. But instead of crowing in his usual manner, he was unusually subdued.No doubt trying to look "presidential." Which couldn&…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Scary Attack Ad
Donald Trump has been on his best behaviour recently, as he tries to change his tone to try to look more presidential. Donald Trump defended Saturday his method of striking a different tone at rallies than he does behind closed doors with party offici…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Ed Broadbent, Michal Hay and Emilie Nicolas theorize that Canada’s left is on the rise. Matt Karp takes a look at the policy preferences of younger American voters, including a strong willingness to fund far …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Must and Will Continue
Bernie Sanders is still attracting huge crowds to his rallies.He still has the enthusiastic support of most young progressives.In every one of the last three months, he has managed to raise more money than Hillary Clinton. Even though donations to his…
Continue readingMichal Rozworski: Beltway Bullshit, my interview with JW Mason on Bernie’s economics
My interview with JW Mason on how wonk critics of Sanders’ economic ideas reinforce low expectations was transcribed for Jacobin under the great title, “Beltway Bullshit.” Michal Rozworski: There’s been a big debate recently around Bernie Sanders’s economic ideas. It was precipitated by Gerald Friedman’s claim that Sanders’s plans would lead to 5 percent nominal economic growth over a […]
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hillary Clinton and the Mystery of the Missing Transcripts
It's the greatest mystery of the Democratic race for the White House. The haunting question that won't go away.Why won't Hillary Clinton release the transcripts of the speeches she gave to big banking institutions like Goldman Sachs?She sa…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Lana Payne writes about the need for a Bernie Sanders in Canada to highlight and oppose the privilege of the wealthy few:It is in this context of blatant unfairness — rules for the rich and rules for…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bernie Sanders and the Rise of the Pro Democracy Movement
In New York City last night Bernie Sanders held a giant rally in Washington Park.And although it was one of the biggest rallies of the campaign, CNN and other TV news channels all but ignored the event, and Sanders' message.“It is not just about…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Corey Hogan makes the case for Rachel Notley’s NDP to develop a progressive fix to Alberta’s fiscal mess:No matter what you decide to do, you’re going to take a political hit with somebody. Credibility will be…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bernie Sanders and the Trouble With Hillary Clinton
For Bernie Sanders it was another day, and another victory. Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, providing his campaign with one more jolt of momentum before the race against Hillary Clinton heads east.And while Sanders split t…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Everybody Knows But Not Everybody Gets It
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows)Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than two terabytes of documents detailing the creation of off…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Everybody Knows But Not Everybody Gets It
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows)Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than two terabytes of documents detailing the creation of off…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Everybody Knows But Not Everybody Gets It
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows) Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than two terabytes of documents detailing the creation of off-shore shell companies and their dubious financial transactions only provided us with the details of what
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will the Panama Papers Propel Bernie Sanders to Victory?
It's impossible to exaggerate the impact of the Panama Papers' scandal. It's impossible to predict how much it will shake up the world, or how many heads will roll. Now the question who's is next? How far will the damage spread? The an…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Panama Papers: ‘Biggest Leak in History’ Exposes Global Web of Corruption
Here is an answer to the pat response often given by those who embrace thecorporate culture when funds are needed and sought for schools, hospitals, parks, fire departments, updated libraries, public swimming pools, cleaning up Read more…
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