All the News That Fits We Print: In a self-serving Washington Post jumbo op-ed, New York Times boss A.G. Sulzberger indignantly rejects idea that defending the U.S. Constitution makes up any part of his remit; instead, he hypocritically pursues his vendetta against Biden for refusing to submit to an exhaustive interview with his scribblers and minions
Responsible media figures condemn the blatant double standard inherent in the bothsidesism of the Wall Street press and television, who have transferred their vicious hostility from Biden to Harris, while maintaining their dog-like devotion to Trump; mediocre but megalomaniac reporters obsessively nitpick every detail of Harris’ remarks, but blithely ignore the virtual delirium of Trump’s tirades;
Trump’s speech to the Economic Club of New York marks new phase in his cognitive deterioration; orange dotard’s answer to final question on childcare will be studied for decades as a classic of evasive raving utterly estranged from reality; his promise to give Musk sweeping powers as federal “Efficiency Czar” suggests any future Trump regime would be strangled by committees of incompetent and mediocre oligarchs; Project 2025 confirms this hypothesis;
Last week, Harris had pledged to retain the Biden-Harris budget for FY 2025, which contains the full 39.6% capital gains tax figure as part of Biden’s alternative minimum tax on parasitical billionaires; this figure of course represented the opening bid in a complex negotiating process with Congress, and simply retreating from it recalls the flawed practice of Obama, who was notorious for negotiating with himself in public, offering concessions without any quid pro quo in
As collapse of Trump candidacy proceeds apace, influx of Wall Street and Silicon Valley plutocrat donors, drifting ex-Republicans, and independent stragglers poses risk of pulling the Harris-Walz campaign to the right, with detrimental consequences now and in the future; these backward influences need to be compensated for by pushing the ticket in a New Deal Economic Populist direction;
Under strident public pressure from rapacious plutocratic donors, Harris-Walz campaign agrees to reduce proposed top long-term capital gains tax rate for wealthy taxpayers from Biden’s planned 39.6% to 28%; current rate is 20%, set by Trump in 2017;
This retreat would reduce revenue for necessary reforms as nation moves towards refinancing Social Security and Medicare while strengthening the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit to fight poverty;
The presence of American hostages still held and others likely already murdered by Sinwar or slain by IDF bombing fully justifies a US ultimatum to Netanyahu demanding an immediate ceasefire and return of hostages based on US national interest; If this is not forthcoming, the Biden administration must mobilize all capabilities to oust Netanyahu from power through the Knesset, early elections, or other legal means;
Breaking: In Gaza, Israelis report finding six hostages murdered by Sinwar and Hamas, with one of the victims the American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents had pled for his life at the Democratic National Convention; Huge anti-Netanyahu demonstrations have occurred today all over Israel demanding a cease fire and the freeing of all hostages; Israel's Histadrut labor confederation has called for a general strike on Monday September 2, which all persons of good will should support;
With Telegram owner and billionaire Russian oligarch Pavel Durov arrested and charged in France, a new phase begins in the counterattack by the modern nation-state against the barbaric neo-feudal relics of globalization; Telegram has notoriously functioned not only as a communications system for illegal activities and organized crime, but has also served Russian aggressive military needs, information warfare, and espionage; This view is reflected in the extreme
I am devoid of shame and guilty by design.