John Atcheson
John Atcheson is author of the novel, A Being Darkly Wise, and a book on our fractured political landscape entitled, WTF, America? How the US Went Off the Rails and How to Get It Back On Track, both available from Amazon. Follow him on Twitter @john_atcheson
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Views Thursday, September 19, 2019 Here We Go Again: Neoliberal Centrists Are Anointing One of Their Own—and It Could Cost Us The post mortem on the latest Democratic debate tells us all we need to know. The fix is in. Choose your so-called liberal media— New York Times , NPR , Washington Post , MSNBC , or any of the other members of the neoliberal media mafia—and you’ll be told either that Biden did well, that he was the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 14, 2019 The Plutocratic War on People: Centrists and Conservatives are Ignoring the Giant Elephant in Our National Living Room The best analogy I can think of to characterize what passes for political “debate” in America these days, is a bunch of people stuck in a rubber life raft with a big leak hissing away, drifting in the midst of a vast ocean surrounded for as far as they can see by starving sharks, while a few “... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 10, 2019 What Corporate Media and the Neoliberal Establishment Can't Admit About the Climate Emergency With the possible exception of an all-out nuclear war, humanity has never encountered a threat that comes close to that posed by climate change. In fact, the crisis is already upon us, but the media refuses to cover it as the clear and present danger it is now, and the virtual apocalypse it will... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 05, 2019 Neoliberal Democrats Need to Stop Blaming the Internet and Take Some Responsibility for 2016 Ever since the 2016 elections, neoliberals have been looking for reasons to explain why Hillary Clinton lost and why Donald Trump won. They've blamed the Russians, Bernie Bros, the media … anything but themselves. Now, a new study gives them another reason—blame it on the Internet. In his latest op... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 31, 2019 Neoliberals' Attack on Sanders' GND Plan Is a Clear and Present Danger Last week Bernie Sanders released his version of the Green New Deal—a $16.3 trillion 10-year plan to get down to zero carbon in the power industry and in transportation. Right on schedule, the neoliberal establishment pounced on it as "too expensive," not "realistic" and not "prudent." Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 24, 2019 Centrists Are Going to Kill Us Centrists are going to kill us. Literally. They’ll do it in two ways. First, they’re saying that we can’t afford the kind of far reaching solutions like Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal that are needed to tackle the climate crisis. Second, they’re spreading the dangerous myth that Democrats need to... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 16, 2019 It Looks Like We're Heading For a Recession: Which Would Make Republicans' Favorite Economic Policies 0 FOR 4 The three biggest economic dislocations in US history were preceded by what has become the Republican’s go-to economic policy: deregulation, tax cuts for the rich, and benefit cuts for the poor and middle class. Oh, and deficits. Yes, that’s right. The party that shuts down government over debt and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 07, 2019 The DNC Confederacy of Dunces Is Back at It for 2020 The Democratic debates turned into exactly what they should have—a war between the progressives and the neoliberal centrists (aka corporatists). Guess which side the corporate media, the pundits, the think tanks, foundations, the DNC, and the rest of the Democratic establishment is lining up behind... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 02, 2019 Moscow Mitch and Yada, Yada, Yada: Progressives Need to Do a Better Job at Messaging Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman cum pundit, labelled Mitch McConnell “Moscow Mitch” and it may have done more to expose McConnell as the dangerous autocratic hypocrite he is. But McConnell is just a symptom of a much larger malady, one that has been brewing for four decades – the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 28, 2019 Trump is Sucking the Air Out of the Political Debate - And Democrats and the Media Are Enabling Him Another Monday, another day devoted to Trump’s insane tweets, racist rants, and faux outrage . Just as he wants it. Trump is a puppet master, his tweets, rants, and outright insanity are the strings and Democrats and the mainstream media are his puppets, as day-after day, the headlines and... Read more |