another war criminal

Political scandal can be an interesting distraction though fleeting and sometimes momentarily reveals information about political leaders we didn’t already know. At this point to expect leaders to be infallible is something we all still hope for deep down but most of us realize is impossible. This, as they are reflections of ourselves sent out as normal people with the same flaws characteristic of being simply people – not saints, angels or anything higher or really lower. We have pieces of many of those things written about across the ages, in religions and philosophies to greater and lesser extents, within each of us, though none of us considered normal or sane, whatever that means, are anything more than human no matter how pure or imperfect.

A successful ‘socialism conference’ was held in Manila from November 27 to 28. The conference was organized by the socialist Partido Lakas ng Masa or Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM) and the socialist-feminist regional network Transform Asia. The conference was attended by 100 delegates, leaders of the PLM from Metro Manila, and other leading socialists of the Philippine left, as well as 13 international guests.

entrapment is illegal

"Once we had a coordinated social market economy. This `Rhine' capitalism embodied the insight gained in bitter experiences that totally freed markets are self-destructive. This insight was lost somewhere between Friedman and Hayek, Thatcher and Reagan.. Many banks in Sweden were nationalized and the financial sector restructured.."

Haitians again denied democracy

cutting entitlements

The neoliberal growth strategy of reducing the price of labor led to a system change from Keynesianism to neoliberal capitalism. Neoliberals never sought full employment but rather the permanent division of society.