Gaius Publius

In Portugal, with no net neutrality, internet providers are starting to split the Internet into "packages" — so much for email service, so much for social media, and so on.

A shot heard round the world?

Your methane bridge to nowhere (source)by Gaius PubliusI've seen this report referenced several times, but none of those mentions is getting traction. So time to repeat.

Matt Taibbi, Mark Ames and a sample eXile cover (source) by Gaius Publius Nothing catches the writer's life from the inside like this piece from Matt Taibbi.He wrote the following paragraphs as part of a long apology responding to criticisms of his life and writing as a youn

This is a solar energy cell (source)by Gaius PubliusThe news about solar energy has been getting better and better for a decade or more. As storage schemes improve, so does the potential for completely replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources.

A slogan you will never see from the national Democratic Party until its current leadership is cleaned out and gone (source)by Gaius PubliusThe larger story — Those who control most of the Democratic Party, and those in the media who aid and abet them, are to their last breath fighting any attempt to turn the country and the Pa

by Gaius PubliusJust a heads up. The liberal-side sexual abuse scandal that's spreading widely, catching both greater and lesser lights, is not likely to let up. Large fish (for example, Harvey Weinstein) and smaller (for example, the Washington Spectator's Hamilton Fish V) are getting entangled in the net of long-delayed, entirely appropriate outrage.

Offered ironically. The roughest waters lie ahead of us. by Gaius Publius"For certain of their leaders, modern-day liberalism is a way of rationalizing and exercising class power."     –Thomas FrankThe real resistance occurred in 2016. It failed in both parties.     –Yours truly There's something greatly troubling about what the media-fronted #Resistance has morphed into, but I'm having trouble writing about it (it's lightly touched here: "A Nation in Crisis, Again").

The saints of neoliberalism. Bill Clinton just put a Democratic Party face on it (source).by Gaius PubliusFor years I've been using the term "neoliberalism" (or sometimes neo-liberalism*) and I'm always uncomfortable, since it sounds so academic. So I usually add one-phrase definitions and move on.

The cover of Naomi Klein's best-seller The Shock Doctrine.