Virgil Wisoky Ret.
@virgilretwisoky
Joined Jan 2025
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Jan 04, 2025 2 subscribers 12 posts
Covering progressive politics, policy changes, and social reform movements.
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Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
Society / March 27, 2025 Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on. …
Trump and the Conservative U.S. Counter-Revolution
The radical transformation of American governance, far from being an impromptu imitative, represents the culmination of nearly a century of meticulously laid groundwork by conservative elites. Drawing from the previously unexplored McCune archives at Columbia…
The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 1
What does the title of this article—not to mention each unusual word in it — even mean? This is not a rhetorical question. We urgently need to understand each term. A precise political philosophy underpins each. A combination of these interrelated philosophie…
U.S. Rulers Versus South African Rulers Versus Both Their Peoples and Ecologies
Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm – which is increasingly beyond the protagonists on each side to manage given the lack of cool heads in U.S. President Donald Trump’s maniacal regime – will entail one of three routes forward:… The post U.S…
The surprising theory that explains modern American life
Americans don’t move much anymore and Yoni Appelbaum thinks that’s a serious problem. Appelbaum, a historian and deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, is the author of a new book exploring how and why Americans have become less likely to settle in new plac…
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