{"id":180538,"date":"2017-03-21T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/21\/linkage-230\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T09:07:00","slug":"linkage-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/21\/linkage-230\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2017\/03\/trump-pelosi-clinton-resistance-movement-russia-maddow\/\">Politicking Without Politics<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>)  the Subjead is, &#8220;Democratic elites are delusional \u2014 you can\u2019t subdue the reactionary  right without a robust alternative political vision.&#8221;  I agree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2017\/03\/the-democrats-anti-russia-campaign-falls-apart.html\">The Democrats Anti-Russia Campaign Falls Apart (Updated)<\/a> (<i>Moon of Alabama<\/i>) This is about the Democratic establishment trying to avoid changes that might require them to lose their phony baloney jobs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/p-g-wodehouses-american-psycho\">P. G. Wodehouse\u2019s American Psycho<\/a> (<i>McSweeney\u2019s<\/i>) American Psycho as written by PG Wodehouse.  Brilliant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/03\/17\/yellens-effed-up-attack-on-working-people-sad\/\">Yellen\u2019s Effed up Attack on Working People, Sad<\/a> (<i>Counterpunch<\/i>) Makes the point that inflation is still below target, and that Yellen&#8217;s statements indicate that her goal is to keep ordinary people&#8217;s wages from rising, &#8220;Some measures haven\u2019t moved up, but there\u2019s is also suggestive of a strengthening labor market.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@MattBruenig\/opponents-of-single-payer-are-moral-monsters-on-par-with-ahca-proponents-c6c152b18bd5#.9ykg9p7hq\">Opponents of single payer are moral monsters on par with AHCA proponents<\/a>  (<i>Medium<\/i>) I&#8217;m inclined to agree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2017\/03\/russia-us-clinton-boris-yeltsin-elections-interference-trump\/\">With rampant talk of Russian interference, it\u2019s worth recounting Washington\u2019s role in undermining Russia\u2019s 1996 election.<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) We actively enabled Yeltsin&#8217;s takeover of Russian media, turned a blind eye to voter fraud, pressured the IMF into making loans, and sanctioned the incursion into Chechnya, all so that our banksters could continue looting.&nbsp; Puts it in perspective.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1885a53e-07d4-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b\">Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor \u2014 the rapacious Raj<\/a> (<i>Financial Times<\/i>) A review of a history of British colonial rule in India, which reveals that it was nowhere as benign as the Brits would like to think.&nbsp; Who knew that 100 years of stoking sectarian hatred and impoverishing a nation could have such a negative effect?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember that video that went viral with the kid barging in on an interview?<\/p>\n<p>Here is the best of the parodies:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Ojvk-4IcOE\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicking Without Politics (Jacobin) the Subjead is, &#8220;Democratic elites are delusional \u2014 you can\u2019t subdue the reactionary right without a robust alternative political vision.&#8221; I agree. The Democrats Anti-Russia Campaign Falls Apart (Updated) (Moon of Alabama) This is about the Democratic establishment trying to avoid changes that might require them to lose their phony baloney &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-180538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}