Ohio Barbarian

If there’s no democracy in the workplace, that’s not a democratic society, IMHO. That means Japan’s not a democracy, either. It may be more of one than the US, since we live in an oligarchy, but so long as the employer/employee relationship is the driving force of the material economy, there is no real democracy.

They just refuse to admit it. It’s a different kind of capitalism; in essence, state capitalism. The Chinese Communist Party, and the families of Party members, control most if not all of the capitalist Chinese enterprises.

It means nothing, in this sense in the electoral sphere. Without direct action that scares the shit out of the politician, and that means strikes and protests and what-not, there will be no peaceful reforms enacted by the current government that accomplish the changes the people of this country need.

Since I’m to damned old to really get involved…[Read more]

I can’t stand to watch the new Rising hosts, for much the same reasons as @alcina expressed. Talk about wooden! They might be good for insomnia, I suppose.

Anyway, if Tulsi is still defending the War on Terror, which was never anything of the sort, but a series of imperialist wars for profit, I don’t see how she can be attractive to any…[Read more]

But by no means impossible.

I say this because of what they have actually done, and have refused to do. They are traitors to the causes which they espouse, and should be treated as such by all progressive activists and others who share the same goals.

If we had democracy in the workplace, drug-testing would not be happening. Then again, if we had democracy, this would not be happening.

Because Joe Biden is a Fascist and always has been. He believes in the merger of corporate and government power. The so-called progressives who continue to support him are Fascist enablers at best.

Yeah, it’s bad. And it’s going to get a lot worse.

Of course, so is Biden, so this development is no surprise. It will also be no surprise when the faux-progressive Democrats in Congress vote for whatever pathetically inadequate or even dangerous monstrosity Manchin invents, and do nothing to stop it from being passed into law.

We elect some progressive Democrats to Congress. They say good things, but openly refuse to exercise their power in a closely divided Congress to demand things progressives want be enacted into law. They had the ability to block Nancy Pelosi from being Speaker in exchange for a floor vote on Medicare for All. They refused to exercise that power,…[Read more]

Everything else is just theater. He can prove me wrong by using his power as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to hold up legislation Biden wants that doesn’t have what Bernie says he wants in it. Until then, Bernie Sanders is just another lying Democrat.

Because the Chinese government has taken the position that housing is a right for all Chinese citizens. They said they won’t allow the type of real estate speculation that has made housing unaffordable in the United States. They also said that if a few Chinese corporations had to be sacrificed in order to do that, so be it.

I have a feeling…[Read more]

For everything you said here was either a distortion or a lie. Jimmy Dore had ONE self-described Bugaloo Boy on ONCE, because that guy contacted Dore, and if you watched the interview it was pretty clear Jimmy Dore is not at all sympathetic to Nazism. For that matter, the Bugaloo Boy in question denied even being a right-winger or a Trumper; he…[Read more]

I don’t know when, and can’t prove if, Hedges actually said that. But it sure sounds like something he would say on some show somewhere sometime.