Absolute Zero: A Newsletter from Richard (RJ) Eskow

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Policy, politics, economics, science, and living through the crisis. Now reaching 136,000 progressives by email and other media.
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A Labor Day Left-Populist Country Playlist
Country music has always been working people's music.
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Highlights From Hell: The GOP Debate as Social Psychosis
A detachment from reality so profound it would call for clinical treatment in a human being.
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Social Security, FDR, and the Real Meaning of Liberty
The phrase “Social Security” promises a more profound liberty for both individuals and communities.
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The Ghost Pandemic and Your Health
We’re forced to rely more and more on our own initiative to stay safe.
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Sinéad: The True Believer Goes Home
Real artists are subversive. They come to undermine, not reform, the social and spiritual order of the world.
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Pie Charts
How billionaires use fake numbers to attack Social Security and Medicare.
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The 1940s Heroine Who Saw the Future ... and Laughed
She fought gender roles - and a Hollywood mogul - and won.
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Against the Unthinkable: Life After Ellsberg
He saw, and he acted. Call it grace, if you like. Now it's our turn.
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Why Should Drug Corporations Like Merck & Eli Lilly Even Exist?
Big Pharma got rich off government inventions, broke laws, caused innocent deaths ... and refuses to negotiate with the American people.
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Why Billionaires Hate Social Security
And why the rest of us should be concerned.
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Memorial Day and Living Memory
Kissinger lives; they didn't.
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Pennsylvania Avenue Freeze-Out: Debt, Death, and the Democrats
In debt ceiling negotiations, one side knows what it wants.
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Yes, the Debt Ceiling Threatens Social Security. Here’s How.
We should fear a “compromise” that sells out seniors, kids, and the disabled.
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Downtown Boys: I recorded this song in 1977
Watch now (3 mins) | Seems I foresaw "cultural appropriation." Also, why I haven't written anything for a while.
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The Bank Crisis: The best mousetrap is no mousetrap, and 4 other observations
Because of contagion, every bank is now too big to fail.
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