Brian SmallNov 20
Correction on Larry Summers. I mentioned that when I cited his paper on a tax on securities trading, he reacted angrily when a Nation factchecker called him—he didn't want his work used "politically." The way I remembered it, we ran it anyway, but in fact The Nation chickened out. Quoting a footnote from my book Wall Street:

"When he was still an academic, Summers did not like it that his paper tentatively promoting a transactions tax on securities to discourage pointless trading was going to be quoted in an editorial in The Nation; the editorial used his numbers, but was stripped of his timorous endorsement (Nation 1989)"

Citation:
Nation (1989). “Tax the Big Casino,” Nation 249 (August 21), p. 189.


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bsmall2Jun 15, 2025

An FB post expressed amazement at _Fortunate Son_ playing during DC BDay parade.
> "Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Hoo, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord"

If truy, maybe it was the Yossarian types in the Army (not USAF) doing it on purpose? Or maybe it was a Trump Appointee again proving that in the current political system stupidity is a feature. Other song choices support feature explanation?
#uspol #FortunateSon #CCRForunateSon
/HT #DougHenwood FB account

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#BehindTheNews w/ #DougHenwood

#RashidKhalidi, author of #TheHundredYearsWarOnPalestine, talks about Israeli #SettlerColonialism and its imperial patrons • #AurélieDaher looks at #Hezbollah and the challenges it faces after the assassination of its leader

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-october-3-2024/
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Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years War on Palestine, talks about Israeli settler-colonialism and its imperial patrons • Aurélie Daher looks at Hezbollah and the challenges it faces after the assassination of its leader

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Matt NoyesMay 14, 2019

#DougHenwood shared part one of a profile of #GeneSharp that portrays him as a promoter of #neoliberal nonviolence and the rule of market imperatives. Got to read the whole thing more carefully, but I don't find the main arguments convincing. It seems to me Sharp saw himself as a non-ideological (anti-ideological?) proponent of nonviolent action for social transformation and decentralization of power.

@ntnsndr is quoted in the piece

https://nonsite.org/article/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one#foot_src_56-11830

Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence (Part One)

The late Gene Sharp is known worldwide as a Gandhi-like champion of nonviolent protest. But he is better understood as one of the most important U.S. defense intellectuals of the Cold War and a neo…

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