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How are the works of Ruy Marini, Vania Bambirra and Theotônio dos Santos brought together by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira in Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina to offer a non-Eurocentric theory of “uneven and combined dependency”?
The post Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
Organizers are facilitating protest votes for people in swing states to register their dissent — without handing a victory to Donald Trump.
The post Swing-State Voters Disillusioned With Kamala Harris Can Swap for Two Non-Swing-State Votes appeared first on The Intercept.
Organizers are facilitating protest votes for people in swing states to register their dissent — without handing a victory to Donald Trump.
The post Swing-State Voters Disillusioned With Kamala Harris Can Swap for Two Non-Swing-State Votes appeared first on The Intercept.
Greg Bluestein is a reporter with the Atlanta Journal Constitution. That’s for real. Trump’s rallies are getting more and more pathetic. This is Georgia, one of his alleged stronghold swing states. He’s not doing well. Not well at all. The Huffington Post asked the campaign if he’s ok and this is what they got:
In conversations with two dozen Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan, many said they were voting for Trump or third parties.
The post Arab and Muslim Voters in Michigan: “I Can’t Overlook Genocide” appeared first on The Intercept.
Well, another presidential election is here. Again. It feels like only yesterday that we were waiting in line for hours to cast our ballots, slowly rocking in front of the TV while the Big Map turned bruised colors and stress-eating leftover Halloween chocolate like a dog intent on seeing God.
Don’t worry. Our Founding Fathers had a dream for our great nation. And if we could teleport them to this very moment, they’d look around and say, “Yep, this is exactly what we were going for.”
If John Hancock saw you frantically refreshing the New York Times Election Needle like a lab rat pulling a lever, he’d weep. With joy.
That’s democracy in action, baby.
Election Day is supposed to be the culmination of a beautiful, natural process that starts with George Washington sticking his head through your window and asking, “Can I count on YOU for four shillings?” every day for a year, in increasingly manic tones.
In his wildest fantasies, John Adams hoped that, someday, we would get free stickers and greet each other like our grandmothers are all having open-heart surgery.
Researchers reveal the significant role the Danish firm has played in delivering military goods to Israel, including armored vehicles.
The post Shipping Giant Maersk Violated Spanish Embargo on Sending Military Goods to Israel, Researchers Say appeared first on The Intercept.
Oh, I hope so. I really hope so. Tomorrow is election day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it’s been. Just a year ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was challenging former president Trump for the GOP nomination by saying the word “woke” at least a hundred times a day while former S. Carolina Gov Nikki Haley competed for what’s left of the “normie” Republican vote. A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee. After all, he’d been running non-stop since 2015. Meanwhile on the Democratic side, incumbent president Joe Biden was an unchallenged shoo-in for the Democratic nomination and most people felt he’d probably be able to replicate his 2020 win despite being unpopular due to a lingering hangover from the pandemic. After all, Trump had incited an insurrection and was facing lawsuits and felony trials in federal court and two different states stemming from a variety of alleged crimes. Surely, he couldn’t possibly win after all that?
If politics is your life, then you must tell yourself a political story in order to live.
All the way through the tape Heather Cox Richardson recounts how when in the 1850s it seemed “elite enslavers had become America’s rulers,” Americans (might we say real Americans?) organized and fought back, ending slavery once and for all: In less than ten years the country went from a government dominated by a few fabulously wealthy men who rejected the idea that human beings are created equal and who believed they had the right to rule over the masses, to a defense of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and to leaders who called for a new birth of freedom. But Lincoln did not do any of this alone: always, he depended on the votes of ordinary people determined to have a say in the government under which they lived. In the 1860s the work of those people established freedom and democracy as the bedrock of the United States of America, but the structure itself remained unfinished. In the 1890s and then again in the 1930s, Americans had to fight to preserve democracy against those who would destroy it for their own greed and power. Each time, thanks to ordinary Americans, democracy won. Now it is our turn.
En statsbudget i balans optimerar inte det reala resursutnyttjandet i ekonomin. Statsbudgeten och dess ramverk ska i stället verka för Sveriges bästa, så att tågen kan rulla och sjuka får vård, skriver Erik Arnell, utredare, Johannes Borgström lektor och docent vid Uppsala universitet och Peo Hansen, professor i statsvetenskap vid Linköpings universitet. Det gläder oss […]
Our friends at 270 Reasons are gathering a polyphonic orchestra of brilliant writers, teachers, doctors, filmmakers, artists, and citizens of all kinds to weigh in about their plans to vote this November. These opinion essays run the gamut from advocacy for basic human rights to acutely personal mini-manifestoes. Read the rest over at 270 Reasons.
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Because There Are No Rights, No Freedoms
That Some Extremists Won’t Try to Take From Us
When Kamala Harris says we must “turn the page,” women know this is far more than a slogan. It’s an imperative that every woman recognizes.
We know that Vice President Harris is right to say we’re not going back to the political landscape Donald Trump has dominated for the last decade. We’re done with that. And we’re not just turning the page, we’re writing a new chapter—switching to a whole different book.
US Swing states are not the only focus of Russian interference, with the Kremlin's attempts to swing elections in Moldova and Georgia in stark relief
We have already shown that deficit spending increases our collective savings. But what happens if Uncle Sam borrows when he runs a deficit? Is that wht eats up savings and forces interest rates higher? The answer is no. The financial crowding-out story asks us to imagine that there’s a fixed supply of savings from which […]
People always ask me, “Why are you so sad, Eeyore? Is it because of the election?” Election Day or regular day, it’s all the same to me. Here’s my advice for accepting the inevitable.
Take a Deep Breath
It’s not much of an activity, but then again, I’m not much of a donkey.
Vote
Sure would be nice to vote. Some of us can’t. Least of all, a gray, gloomy donkey from Great Britain with no US citizenship.
Sigh.
Don’t worry about me. Even if I voted, they’d just write on my ballot, “It’s only Eeyore, so it doesn’t count.” Nobody listens to me, anyway.
Say One Thing You’re Grateful For
“Things could be worse. Not sure how. But it could be.” Saying this out loud always makes me feel better. If that doesn’t work for you, you can always just feel grateful for havin’ a choice between two parties. Republican Party. Democratic Party. You’re lucky to be invited to any party. I wouldn’t know. Parties are for popular animals. Guess I’m not fun enough to be invited.
An senior US insider breaks rank to detail exactly what a Donald Trump victory would mean
- by Aeon Video
- by Daniel W McShea & Gunnar O Babcock
- by Jinal Dadiya
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
In the heart of the state that could decide the election, people are grappling with a crisis largely ignored by both Trump and Harris.