The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Thanks to Who D. Who for recommending this article... The "No Kings" Scam: The Oligarchs Are Funding Their Own "Resistance" The No Kings rallies this weekend will not frighten the oligarchy.   Dorothy Lennon The upcoming No Kings rallies, set to take place across America, will not spark fear within the oligarchy. It does not call for a  general strike.  It does not call for an end to the  Iran War . It does not call for an end to the  genocide  against the Palestinians in Gaza. It does not call to strengthen the  labor movement . It does not call to leave the Democratic and Republican Parties. Like the  “anti-war movement”  during the Bush administration or the  Women’s March  during the first term of Trump’s presidency, this will be an attempt to channel energy back into a decaying Democratic Party with leaders who have already  acquiesced  to President Trump’s demands. For if we are to break the oligarchy’s ne...

  Jeff Bezos Just Taught Liberal Elites How Oligarchy Really Works Bezos was feted as the savior of the Washington Post in 2013, now he's reviled for mass layoffs. But it's also Google who helped crush the paper. Liberal elites are starting to learn about oligarchy. Matt Stoller In August of 2019, Senator Bernie Sanders  faced  negative coverage of his Presidential campaign by a vaunted national newspaper, the Washington Post. This publication was revered in D.C., having broken the Watergate scandals and brought down Richard Nixon in the 1970s. It had delivered a host of important stories over the decades since, seen as a public trust so important that Steven Spielberg made a movie about the publisher’s decision to help publish the Pentagon Papers. But like most newspapers, it had stumbled in the early 2010s. At the time, newspapers were doing badly due to what they thought was a decline in ad spending due to the financial crisis. Philanthropists were musing on how to sav...