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Image | The Disenchantment of American Politics
The Disenchantment of American Politics
by JHK

Considering the problems we face as a nation, the torpor and lassitude of current politics in America seems like a kind of offense against history. What other people have allowed circumstances to run over them like so many ‘possums sleeping on the highway?

And, since human affairs don’t remain static indefinitely, in what direction might things go when the political mood finally heaves and shifts? The possibilities are unsettling.
The Disenchantment of American Politics
 by JHK

Considering the problems we face as a nation, the torpor and lassitude of current politics in America seems like a kind of offense against history. What other people have allowed circumstances to run over them like so many ‘possums sleeping on the highway?

And, since human affairs don’t remain static indefinitely, in what direction might things go when the political mood finally heaves and shifts? The possibilities are unsettling.
Image | Marianne Williamson: We Must Maintain a Healthy Sense of Protest
Marianne Williamson: We Must Maintain a Healthy Sense of Protest
by Adam Taggart

Partisan politics is something we actively avoid discussing on this site. Instead, we prefer to operate in the domain of provable fact. But that doesn't mean that we have written off the political process entirely.
Marianne Williamson: We Must Maintain a Healthy Sense of Protest
 by Adam Taggart

Partisan politics is something we actively avoid discussing on this site. Instead, we prefer to operate in the domain of provable fact. But that doesn't mean that we have written off the political process entirely.
Image | Kicking the Can, As Expected
Kicking the Can, As Expected
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

I didn't get too worked up analyzing what might happen in the event of a U.S. default on its debt, because I knew in my heart of hearts that such a move would have required some serious political spine.

This is something that is completely lacking in both parties right now, so I didn't worry about any other outcome besides an eleventh-hour agreement to kick the can a bit further down the road.
Kicking the Can, As Expected
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

I didn't get too worked up analyzing what might happen in the event of a U.S. default on its debt, because I knew in my heart of hearts that such a move would have required some serious political spine.

This is something that is completely lacking in both parties right now, so I didn't worry about any other outcome besides an eleventh-hour agreement to kick the can a bit further down the road.
Image | The Structural Endgame of the Fiscal Cliff
The Structural Endgame of the Fiscal Cliff
by charleshughsmith

To understand this endgame, we need to start with the financial and political basics of wealth and power in the U.S.

1.  Wealth and thus political power are highly concentrated.  The dynamics of rising wealth disparity and the increasing concentration of wealth are debatable; the disparity is not.  Roughly 70% of all financial wealth is held by the top 5%; within this top layer of ownership, the top ½ of 1% hold an outsized share.
The Structural Endgame of the Fiscal Cliff
 by charleshughsmith

To understand this endgame, we need to start with the financial and political basics of wealth and power in the U.S.

1.  Wealth and thus political power are highly concentrated.  The dynamics of rising wealth disparity and the increasing concentration of wealth are debatable; the disparity is not.  Roughly 70% of all financial wealth is held by the top 5%; within this top layer of ownership, the top ½ of 1% hold an outsized share.
Image | Four More Years
Four More Years
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by Chris Martenson

Obama has been re-elected. Given the hyperbole and highly emotional rhetoric of the election, it is hard to imagine that the U.S. is anything but slightly more divided than before, with the gaps and divisions widening more and more as time goes on.

The real tragedy in this story is that virtually none of the really big and important issues were even touched in this election cycle. One party pointed to how much they managed to increase military spending while the other promised to exceed even that. One side said they'd promote even faster drilling and extraction of our dwindling energy reserves and the other promised they could do it even faster. Both said they wanted more growth and more jobs and more, more, more.
Four More Years
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Obama has been re-elected. Given the hyperbole and highly emotional rhetoric of the election, it is hard to imagine that the U.S. is anything but slightly more divided than before, with the gaps and divisions widening more and more as time goes on.

The real tragedy in this story is that virtually none of the really big and important issues were even touched in this election cycle. One party pointed to how much they managed to increase military spending while the other promised to exceed even that. One side said they'd promote even faster drilling and extraction of our dwindling energy reserves and the other promised they could do it even faster. Both said they wanted more growth and more jobs and more, more, more.
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