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The contrarian addiction

…Health,” he asks: “Can diabetes can be more effectively treated with a cooking class instead of prescribing insulin? Can we lower high blood pressure by improving sleep quality and reducing…

The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions

…says he’d support a middle-class tax cut, YahooNews.com (Sept. 12, 2010). Of course, he resorted to the old “class warfare” attack–according to the GOP, anybody who doesn’t give a tax…

What’s in a name?

…intellectual energy analyzing capitalism — how surplus value is extracted, how class relations form, how markets expand, how crises emerge from systemic contradictions. Das Kapital, all three volumes of it,…

Pandering to the Right Fringe

…Iowa under the guise of a populist who understands the worries of the downtrodden labor class in America. The Wall Street Journal (Jan. 7-8, 2012) says that he “cast[s] himself…