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Category Archives: Roosevelt and New Deal
Video: Thomas Frank: Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, 58 min
Video: Thomas Frank, Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, CSpan, June 27, 2018, 58 min https://www.c-span.org/video/?447453-2/rendezvous-oblivion# This is what society looks like when the glue fails, a time of cascading collapse, a golden age of corruption when the … Continue reading
Liberalization of Public Service: A Democratic Achievement is Subjected to the Rules of Competition by Christine Wicht and Carsten Lenz
Trump turns away from everything touched by Obama and paves the way to the Dark Age. Will this be the 11th century when illiteracy and narcissism are accepted and not overcome? Here’s a link to “Liberalization of the Public Services” … Continue reading
Video: “Franklin D. Roosevelt,” 1 hr 17 min
to watch the interview with historian Robert Dallek from Dec 5, 2017, click on https://www.c-span.org/video/?438138-1/franklin-d-roosevelt FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A Political Life By Robert Dallek 679 pp. Viking. $40 Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again By DAVID NASAW … Continue reading
Bernie Sanders: “Despair is not an option”
to read the interview with Bernie Sanders published in The Guardian, March 10, 2017, click on https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-interview-trump-democratic-party-resistance The senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism … Continue reading
What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy? by Tony Judt
Tony Judt and William Beveridge were great progressives and crusaders for the social state. In the US, the middle class benefited enormously in the postwar years from subsidized housing and subsidized education. Why is it we have such difficulty even … Continue reading
Public Risks, Private Profits, and Prosperity
Public Risks, Private Profits, and Prosperity by the Association for Plural Economics and Sven Hergovich http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/11/433779.shtml All personal and corporate achievements are based on state investments in roads, schools, hospitals, community centers, airwaves, food safety, and water quality. The Apples … Continue reading
US Economy: False Diagnoses and False Solutions by Helke Buchter
US Economy: False Diagnoses and False Solutions by Helke Buchter, translated from the German in Die Zeit, August 2016 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/09/433076.shtml Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s economic plans are too simplistic. Innovations and ideas are lacking. Many people despair. American can … Continue reading
The state should represent the public interest
The state should represent the public interest but special interests or private interests seem to be in the driver’s seat with privatization, deregulation, liberalized markets, speculation, tax havens, and corporate tax evasion. In “Escape from Freedom,” Erich Fromm explained that … Continue reading
FDR’s First 100 Days by Horst Dippel
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/05/432417.shtml This reading sample of “A History of the US” is translated from the German. The Works Progress Administration created 651K miles of highway, 124K bridges, 8K parks and 125K public buildings including 41K schools. In the US of Amnesia, … Continue reading
The arc of history bends toward justice!
The arc of history bends toward justice (MLK). The welcoming tradition is part of American history, not only the traditions of fear and personal enrichment. The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history. The … Continue reading