Tag Archives: Depression

Where your job went and why it won’t come back

May 20, 2016 · by · in climate disruption, economics, election 2016, History, Labor, near term human extinction, Peak oil, Protests, tax policy for the 99%, unemployment · Leave a comment

A week or so ago I posted a fancy-pants essay by Kevin Hester, one of my buds in the NTHE movement (near term human extinction for the uninitiated). It used the language of the anti-capitalism movements, including the Occupy Wall Street folks. The thesis of Hester’s article was that capitalism is dying because the planet […]

Sleepwalking into calamity

January 15, 2016 · by · in climate disruption, economics, near term human extinction, peace protesters, Peak oil, Police and policing, tax policy for the 99%, unemployment · Leave a comment

After the last State of the Union address by our Nobel Peace Laureate, bromide/memes like the above circulated freely on the Internets. This one was at least smart enough to leave lower gas prices off the list. You probably shouldn’t draw people’s attention to the fact that oil prices have fallen off a cliff because […]

Economic storm on the horizon

December 19, 2015 · by · in economics, History, unemployment · 2 Comments

The basics: the Fed has announced a rate hike (the first since the Lehman crash in 2008) and the Dow is wobbling. Today (Friday) the Dow was down almost 370. While Wall Street has ample selfish reasons to wish for permanently ‘free’ money from the Treasury, the reality is that Janet Yellen’s actions are (to […]

The Dead Zone–parsing out the past year

July 14, 2015 · by · in climate disruption, economics, History, near term human extinction, OWS, Protests, unemployment · Leave a comment

This is (per WordPress math) my 400th blog posting. I started my blog in 2012 when the memes of Occupy Wall Street were not getting traction in Main Stream media. I also was working on touring a number of my plays–I was writing about protest and revolution and income inequality. Lots of gigs, very little money. […]

Sh*t (some)Republicans believe (updated)

January 27, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., economics, History, Protests, war crimes · Leave a comment

This is an updated list. I originally put it up last September, just after the conventions, when the Presidential campaign began in earnest. I’ve updated it somewhat, but this seems to cover the subject pretty nicely. This list probably seems patently unfair to Republicans, and (to be fair) not all Republicans believe everything on this […]