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 Monday, November 11, 2019 Trump Is Controlling the Narrative On Impeachment Remember “no collusion,” Trump’s go-to line on the Mueller investigation? It was brilliant in its own way. Trump’s crimes were pretty clear: soliciting aid from a foreign government and obstructing justice—and there was ample evidence that he’d done both. But “no collusion” avoided mentioning... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 09, 2019 The Neoliberal Assault on Warren's Plan to Pay for Medicare for All Both Sanders and Warren have come up with viable plans for funding Medicare for all. The neoliberal establishment and the conservatives have been going after Sanders’ approach by raising the specter of-middle class tax increases. Sanders seems to trust that people will understand that if the tax... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 03, 2019 Politics as a Food Fight: The Media Is Feeding the Political Divide The other day, while listening to that liberal bastion, NPR, the newscaster mentioned that another witness had given testimony that would be damaging to Trump in the House’s impeachment inquiry. In a transition so seamless it was an integral part of the story, the anchor immediately went on to say... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 29, 2019 The Revolution Is Here: Democrats Ignore It at Their Peril Despite the yammering by the mainstream media and the neoliberals running the Democratic Party—not to mention Republicans and Fox News—the overwhelming majority of voters support progressive issues on a case-by-case basis, and the majority support the candidates who espouse them. Doubt that? See... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 25, 2019 Centrists—Or Neoliberals–Control the Party and the Media and They're Risking Losing to Trump Again in 2020 Neoliberal centrists either don’t understand why Trump won, or they’re so desperate to stay in control of the Party they’re willing to risk four more years of Trump. So let’s look at the arguments they’re mounting against the progressive candidates and policies. Let’s get one thing clear: the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 17, 2019 Reminder: Trump Didn't Win, Democrats Lost Tuesday’s Democratic debate boiled down to a war between the centrists and the progressives. Or, to put it another way, between those who would represent the people, and those who would represent billionaires, millionaires, and corporations. The centrists/corporatists can’t run on issues, so they’... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 10, 2019 A Trump Impeachment Inquiry Isn't Keeping Congress From 'Getting Things Done'—Mitch McConnell Is. One of the Republican’s talking points about impeaching Trump is that it will keep Congress from “doing the business of governing” or the “people’s business.” Like so much else coming out of the Republican cult, this is pure BS. The thing that’s keeping us from doing the people’s business is Mitch... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 03, 2019 When the Fringe Is Mainstream and the Mainstream Is Fringe: On Orwell and US Oligarchy In 1984 , George Orwell said, “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.” The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to make all records tell the same tale, and they’re... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 26, 2019 In the End, Trump Left Pelosi No Choice on Impeachment Readers of my columns know there's very little I agree with Nancy Pelosi on. But I thought her reluctance to impeach Trump was warranted. It will inflame his base, the Senate is unlikely to act on the House's findings, and it could be dismissed as a partisan attack by those who are tired of... Read more |
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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 |