I’ve spent the last 24 hours traveling across the world (currently in Canada) and read this fascinating 17,000 word essay by Eric Alterman in The Nation. It discusses the importance of a progressive agenda, the difficulty of achieving this in the US with so many vested interests, the disappointment of Barack Obama, lobbying in the health and financial industries and the destructive nature of Fox News and corporate media.
It’s a call to arms, passionate, argumentative, intriguing, provocative and important.
Read it.