Peter Bloom
Peter Bloom is a lecturer in the Department of People and Organisations at the Open University. He has published widely on issues of 21st century democracy, politics and economics in both scholarly journals and in publications including the Washington Post, The New Statesman, Roar, Open Democracy, The Conversation and Common Dreams. His books include Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Globalizationand Beyond Power and Resistance: Politics at the Radical Limits which will be released in November, 2016.
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Views Saturday, March 24, 2018 The March for Change Represents the Chance to Build an Intersectional Progressive Movement The tragic Parkland shooting has spawned a new movement for gun control and safety. The consistent and effective campaigning of student survivors has led to an international March on Washington this Saturday. While the focus is on changing US gun policy, its political impact has the potential to be... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 17, 2018 Seeing Only Red: Turning the Threat of a New Cold War into a Global Struggle to Save Democracy After months of speculation and investigation, the US government has formally indicted 13 Russians with “election meddling”. While these indictments did not include suspected charges of Trump’s collusion, they did seem to validate ideas that Russia was guilty of directly undermining American... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 10, 2017 Political Resignations are a Radical Cure for our Politics of Resignation After weeks of speculation, Senator Al Franken publicly resigned due to growing allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior to women. Immediately this called into question why Donald Trump has not resigned in the wake of even worse accusations of sexual assault by numerous women. It was also in... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 21, 2017 Do We Really Know What He Signed Up For? President Trump has ignited another public firestorm over his woeful attempt to console as Commander in Chief a war widow. After first lying about whether past presidents phoned the partners of fallen soldiers, he then shockingly told the grieving wife and mother that her husband “knew what signed... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 08, 2017 Corbyn and Labour are Fighting for a New Progressive Political Mainstream On April 18 the newly selected Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called a general election for June 8th, declaring it "the only way to guarantee certainty for the years ahead." This was a complete reversal from her previous promise not to hold an election. For the cynics, this U-turn (the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 22, 2017 The Democrats Should Stop Wishing on a "Star" and Start Helping to Build a Progressive Movement Only a few months after taking office, President Trump have confirmed all the worst fears of progressives and liberals. From his potential ties to Russia to his almost beyond belief retrogressive budget , the new administration is promoting an agenda that is as economically elitist as it is... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 17, 2016 Progressives Wake Up: It’s Time to Put Centrism to Rest The prospects of a Trump presidency appear more deplorable by the day. In the first week of presumptive reign he has installed a confirmed white nationalist as head of his transition team and threatened to register all Muslims. The "quiet man" behind his gilded electoral victory – Mike Pence – is... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 23, 2016 Corporate Authoritarianism and the New American Anti-Democracy Numerous allegations of sexual assault have delivered what may be a fatal blow to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. His lewd remarks have been rightly condemned in the strongest terms by the mainstream media, his Liberal opponents and even members of his own Party. More than just heading for... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 09, 2016 Sex, Lies and America’s Deplorable Democracy Only a little more than a month before the November election, both Trump and Clinton were rocked by new scandals. Headlines around the country and world reported on secretly recorded tapes and speech that reaffirm the public’s worst suspicions of each of them. In an already in many ways... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 30, 2016 By Sitting Down Kaepernick Challenges Americans to Reflect on What They Really Stand For The San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick shocked much of America last week by refusing to stand for the national anthem. In his own words , “Ultimately it’s to bring awareness and make people realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that are going on that are... Read more |