Links for 02/02/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Austin Ruse is funny, but he misses the point. The whole non-negotiable thing on abortion is designed to forever preserve the bargain between the GOP and the National Right to Life Committee - which profits both. We who are refugees from that little bargain are making things inconvenient for those who hold it by showing that it is all electoral - no embryo or fetus has ever been saved - and more might be by an economic policy that is of direct benefit to the poor - unlike the standard GOP fetish for cutting poverty programs and wages for the benefit of the rich. The right wing has no answer to this unless it is much more generous to the poor and harsher on the rich - who fund the whole effort and have their own non-negotiables - raising taxes on them.
Robbie gets it rigth by going after the Wahabi tyranny which is found not only in Saudi, but also in ISIS and the many Al Queda offshoots. The Bush family as been protecting them for far too long - and if Jeb gets into power, for too much longer.
Leon is right that dealing with technology and labor is the question of the day. Some want to deal with it on relgious grounds - the Distributists - who are among those who thing a collapse is inevitable. Others with a more Marxist, Georgist or Libertarian point of view see either a collapse or a revolution. Something does have to give and this is mostly what I write about as a libertarian socialist under term "Inter-Independence." The question is, is consumerism the problem or is it on the way to a solution? I say it is on the way to solution having to do with both employee ownership and the destruction of capitalism - the cronly kind or just the CEO kind.
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