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  Who Is Jeffrey Sachs? source:  Internationalist Group I - Decimating the Bolivian Working Class “Widely considered to be the leading international economic adviser of his generation” (in the words of his official bio on the  Columbia   University  website), the notorious Dr. Sachs was contracted by hard-line capitalist regimes from  Bolivia  to  Russia . His task: to design an economic “shock treatment” that produced  misery and death for untold numbers of working people . Jeffrey Sachs gained notoriety for advocating and implementing  what is now called “ neoliberal ”  capitalist economics with a vengeance. Following in the footsteps of Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” – who helped the dictator Augusto Pinochet in mid-1970s  Chile  starve workers and the poor for the greater glory of the “free market” – Sachs first made the spotlight as leader of the “Harvard Boys” who brought shock treatment economics to  Bolivia  in 1985. Determined to smash the combative tin miners who were the b

The self same "self-identified "radical" ersatz socialist DSA clowns and their proggy appendages in the alt-media universe who first glorified the anti black, neoliberal imperialist racist Obama - a man not without an abysmal record as an Illinois Senator from Chicago's Pritzker ghetto, yet unvetted by these giddy, self-impressed and self-promoting "radicals," transformed their disappointment with Obama (not with themselves for failing to vet that brown-nosing narcissist) into an uncritical, 'don't ask don't tell'  support of the next hypocricies brimming narcissistic sociopath charlatan in line; the neoliberal imperialist "socialist" Bernie the bomber Sanders. Having learned exactly nothing from their two previous miserable failures, all the same jokers incredulously threw in with Teddy Kennedy's intern, the revolutionary socialist Sambuca flame throwing barmaid AOC.  These dopes' fee-fees and high hopes got slapped down b

Matt Stoller's article, penned in 2014, during the height of Obamas push for NAFTA on financialized steroids, the TPP(Trans Pacific Partnership) helped alert me to the political reality residing inside the already then - a decade before the neoliberal Trilateralist Jimmy Carter helped turn the party against workers and another 15 years before Bill Clinton sealed the working/middle class eviscerating, global corporatist New Democrat Party's neoliberal mindset-ensconcing  deal. By Matt Stoller, who writes for Salon and has contributed to Politico, Alternet, Salon, The Nation and Reuters. You can reach him at stoller (at) gmail.com or follow him on Twitter at  @matthewstoller . Originally published at  Observations on Credit and Surveillance Here’s  part one  of this series on the origins of NAFTA and our current trading regime. It’s amazing what you find in the Congressional Record. For example, you find American political officials (liberal ones, actually) engaged in an actual c

The once rabidly committed to Bernie the Bomber's virtue signaling; to his and the media's fairy tales; to swooning over his hollow political rhetoric, cheap illusions, false narratives, deflections from reality, and hope-dope, self identified "radical leftist ex 'Bernie Bros"mare at it again.  Some people, a special sort of self-enamored individuals, simply refuse to engage self criticism. The blame is always someone else's other than themselves. As such, it was Bernie who back-stabbed and disappointed them, rather than the fact that they did nothing to vet Bernie's wrapped in pseudo socialist rhetoric, extensive and puke-worthy neoliberal-imperialist record with a neoliberal Democrat partisan twist: Republican billionaires bad! Democratic billionaires, even though Democrats are the party of Wall Street, Pharma, Silicon Valley, Real Estate and the MICC, — presumably the good billionaires? — go unmentioned: out of sight, out of mind, problem solved. Hillar