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Report to William Blake

(re-posted from 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Blake, I won’t readyour work againright now—maybe never, ormaybe some timewhen I don’t knowwhat to do. I’m busyconsultingmy imagination:how to redeemmy routines,resistthe normal attackson

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We Should Change It To ‘Dear Sectarian America’ (But Rather Than Let The Terrorists Win, Will Not)

DAN RUDY Portland, OR Obviously it has been happening for years, as steadily as a runaway glacier: the polarisation of American politics and the rightward thrust of the current Republican

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Edging Toward Poverty: Income Gains Going Straight to the Top

Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez found: In 2010 — the first full year since the end of the Great Recession — virtually all of the income growth in America took place among the country’s very

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Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase

ERIC CHAET Wisconsin Credit: Financial Times photos (originally published at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) I read about Jamie Dimon with rapt attention. He is single-minded as anyone you might

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Disturbing Figures About California’s Wealth Gap

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Credit: David Shankbone In an LA Times Op-Ed, Alissa Anderson and Jean Ross make us cringe:

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Kony Beef

DAN RUDY Portland, OR               So Adam asked if I might take a look at

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The Elite Must Stop Living Off of the Labor of the Masses

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1 uses footnotes in a most delightful and thought-provoking manner: ‘Among the

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The Postmodern Jamestown

Dan Rudy  PORTLAND, OR           Driving all over the Portland area today (as work generally takes me),

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Who Framed Capitalism?

CONOR MATTHEWS Ireland Credit:  JRLibby It reads like a Noir screenplay. The chalked outline of a dollar symbol lines the

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In Prisons Jammed with "Politicals"

Rosa Luxembourg wrote in her journal on March 13, 1906, after being arrested by Polish authorities: I’m sitting here in

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