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Taxes and spending in the "Fairer Europe" proposal by Thomas Piketty et al (source; click to enlarge). Notice the emphasis on addressing climate change, both on the tax side and the spending side.

Bain Capital's corporate logo: Vultures, rampant, on a field of bonesBain Capital's managing director and the Obama circle's choice for next president.

Translated and subtitled by Scott Humor Sometimes, reading news makes you think that post-Soviet limitrophes see “totalitarian Russia” even in their dreams. Upon waking up, they write about their nightmares

"The Republicans," explained Kyle Kulinski last week, "have shifted further right to some weird brew of theocracy and authoritarianism and fascism and outright oligarchy." He forgot kakistocracy and kleptocracy but no need to quibble.

by Gaius PubliusA "perjury trap" is a prosecutorial maneuver and a form of entrapment in which "a prosecutor calls a witness to testify with the intent to base a perjury charge on their statements, not to indict them for a previous crime." If a prosecutor calls a witness for only that purpose, rather than to get information to further an investigation, the law is clear — it's

by Scott Humor The “Russian hackers” story never seems to go away. I have described before a scheme behind the empty shell company called the “Internet Research Agency,” and the

Last Monday, the New York Times carried what has to be one of the most ludicrous, Orwellian pieces of propaganda in recent memory. The title sums it up:  “Is the Democratic Party Becoming too Democratic?”
 

On the Victims of Political Repressions memorial day the radio Echo of Moscow posted an image of the Nazi Germany soldiers captured by the Soviet Army. The text above the

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.