Top Stories Saturday 09 Nov
Beyond Corporate on political lies:
Should it just be expected that lying is how business gets done in politics? And, if so, what’s the next step from there? Just like TV allowing the words “damn” then “crap”, and then HBO going all out with all language…after a while, the powerful words loose their power and end up being just a lazy use of not-well-thought-out language. Is that what political lies will become? Will it be small lies and fabrications, then larger lies, then big, honkin’, blatant, stinking, baldfaced lies that are just written off as “getting things done” or “business as usual”? I am afraid of this. I am afraid of kids going being my gen-x ennui and just saying “what the fuck? who cares? they all lie”. You know, I say that all the time to my partner, but it makes me bitter to say it. I imagine that, when my sons are old enough to vote, they may say that with total acceptance and possibly even some pride..?
Nathan Newman has a short piece about the European Social Forum:
We can talk about a national agenda for the Democrats, but it is just as important for progressives to be involved in the global democratic debate on shaping the global economy and society. Bush has a version of US-led corporate unilateralism. Beyond saying no to war, the Left needs an alternative that will address the needs for cross-border labor solidarity to keep wages up, idealistic hopes for global equity, and the address the fears from international terrorism with new hopes for global cooperation.