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“…Warning of an overbearing attitude by Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg in the face of the events in the United States – and the suspension of Donald Trump’s accounts on that company’s platforms – President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that it is important to create alternative media as a counterweight to the actions of executives from social networks and traditional media. In answering a question, related to what happened in the neighboring country, he said that his government...

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here This entry was posted in Guest Post, Links on About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clea...

Conclusion from DS’s article” If progressive advocacy groups, activists and lawmakers do not call out and confront austerity politics head on, it is going to be a painful four years. They’ve been warned about Biden’s ideology for a long time — the stimulus bill is the biggest warning of all. Some political philosophy about “advocacy groups” “activist” and confrontation from Gaetano Mosca. Now the masses are stirred only at times of great spiritual unrest caused by events which...

From chicago to speak about this. its really bad. walmart basically thinks in this situation theyre going to sell more stuff if theyre open on thanksgiving day. but what does it say about this country, that were just not going to have holidays anymore? i think thats a really problematic thing for most workers and most folks. the u.s. has the least holidays of any industrialized countries. on average, most americans only have nine paid vacation days. in france, they have six weeks. an article my ...

Money more apparent than in the american housing crisis. >> it kept getting big we are 35,000 joining the fight. that tidal wave grew with guest posts on dr.com from the national peoples action and the public campaign, jimmy williams, joe costello. the growth continued thursday from mark ames with evidence that its not only politicians for sale but ideas. >> this is worse than hypocrisy. hypocrisy is kind of a moral thing. this is actually a scam played out on the american people. >> we now stoo...

According to the reporters, heres how it came down. charles koch wanted to use hayek as an expert to give his think tank, the institute for humane studies, an intellectual drive -- or an intellectual rationale to get rid of social security. but hayek, according to ames and levine, was afraid of leaving the safety of the universal health care coverage he was enjoying in his native austria b by coming to americas rigged market place system. hayek feared the cost of americas health care. so koch, a...

Sale installment of this coverage. in the 1940s, and even the 1950s, even though most in the medical profession knew that smoking was dangerous to your health, you had a lot of ads like this, bought and paid for by cigarette companies looking to sell cigarettes. >> what cigarette do you smoke, doctor? once again, the brand named most was camel. yes, according to this repeated nationwide survey, more doctors smoked camels than any other cigarette. >> flash forward to the 1970s. according to a new...

Mark ames broke this story, he was also one of the first to expose the koch family in very controversial early reporting that was met with d.c. insider suppression at the time. a pleasure to see you. so what is will? how many politicians, what exactly happened? sxwh we >> working on the story with a young journalist, youll hear more from him soon, hes the one who got a hold of this. >> of the document. >> the letter sent out to the employees telling them thousahe to vote for down to the district...

$88 million going into the 2012 elections. they are the very symbol of the unholy alliance between business and state that plagues this country. and with us are mark ames and yasha lavigne who are the two journalists who broke the stories about these journalists in 2009 before anyone even believed them. mark, you guys broke this thing and basically the story was crushed one way or the other. walk us through what happened with your journalism in the immediate days following the publication of the...

>> mark ames, how is it you can advocate a free market ideology when that core principal of a free market ideology is a market price. in other words, if youre manipulating the cost of oil, the koch brothers are uniquely doing that, but theyre among those who are doing that. if youre artificially keeping credit cheap by subsidizing the banking system, which is in the politicians and the bankers interest, how can you claim to be in favor of free markets while simultaneously manipulating the core p...