Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-squad-doesnt-exist-outside-of-social-media ❖ The US House of Representatives has voted 368-57 to spend $40 billion on a world-threatening proxy war while ordinary Americans struggle to feed themselves and their children. All 57 "no" votes were Republicans. Every member of the small faction
So the Facebook "whistleblower" all the mass media are loudly amplifying today is pushing for regulations that Facebook just happens to fully support, likely because the trillion-dollar corporation knows it will impose costs that make the emergence of future competitors impossible?Cool. That's not suspicious at
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/there-is-no-good-form-of-capitalism ❖ Don't side with the powerful against the less powerful. Just don't. Don't side with police against protesters. Don't side with the US against the targets of western imperialism. Don't side with Israel against Palestinians. Siding with the powerful means
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/electoral-politics-does-not-work ❖ It says a lot that AOC wasn't even able to vote against an Israeli apartheid measure that everyone already knew would pass regardless of her vote.I mean, how far gone is your progressive revolution if you're not even allowed
The debate rages on over whether or not House progressives should force a floor vote on Medicare for All by threatening not to re-elect Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, with one side arguing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of "The Squad" were elected to
There's a feud on the American political left right now which (as usual) breaks down more or less along the lines of center-left "Bernie in the primary, Clinton/Biden in the general" progressives angrily opposing a push towards meaningful change from those further to the left.It