Ohio Barbarian

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My dad was a friend of LBJ, and that’s what he always said, anyway. My dad also told me LBJ said that damned (expletive deleted) Martin Luther King was right about the Great Society being sacrificed in Vietnam. This was in 1972, a year before Johnson died.

At least it wasn’t a thermonuclear call.

AOC is a member of Congress, and therefore a powerful person. Nina Turner was a State Senator, and gained at least a lot of potential power by her visibility on the Sanders campaign. AOC demonstrated her corruption by being dishonest, pledging to fight for progressive goals in Congress and then refusing to do so. Nina Turner claims she’s a…[Read more]

He won’t admit it. You will.

Covid’s more like influenza, and they haven’t come up with a one-time vaccine for that. The best we can do is limit symptoms, like with the flu shot for many people.

The oligarchy controls the government, and won’t allow it to tax them, but there is this monstrous deficit that’s been increased again and again for their benefit, and somebody’s worried about the whole Ponzi scheme crashing down, so they want to squeeze the classes they think are helpless.

Just another sign of imperial decline.

Living in her congressional district, I and others here saw the early warning signs during the special election campaign. Early on, Turner refused to even discuss foreign policy, and refused to criticize Joe Biden or the Squad for deliberately failing to even try to deliver on their campaign promises. Then she brought out AOC and Bernie Sanders to…[Read more]

Capitalist apologists always come down on the side of idealism, which says that ideas, including faiths, are the prime drivers of human history. This is in sharp contrast to the philosophical materialists, from Aristotle to Marx, who believe that material living conditions are the primary drivers.

Materialism leads to an objective examination of…[Read more]

He talks about AOC and Markey. Ooooh! They introduced a resolution! As if any Democrat is ever going to do anything that the oligarchy doesn’t want them to do. Chomsky would have us try to pressure Democrats into doing the right thing and ending sanctions on countries like Afghanistan and Cuba, though he doesn’t mention a whole host of others…[Read more]

It’s very unlikely that a new Genghis Khan will raise his banners in Mongolia and sweep through the Stans to subjugate Moscow and Kiev again, or that the Chinese will ever try anything like that.

Other than the Mongols, the worst invasions of Russia came from the west. Nevsky, I think, defeated the Teutonic Knights who were on a crusade to spread…[Read more]

There’s bound to be a market for them.