On my Politics “blog” before I started using WordPress, I had the article Immigrant Work Status Verification.

If there were a fraud proof way for an employer to verify the work status of a potential immigrant hire, then we could hold employers responsible for only hiring legal immigrants. There could be stiff penalties on the employer for hiring illegal immigrants.

This was written in 2006 and 2011.

YouTube has the video ‘John Bolton tried to assassinate me’: Interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal sits down with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. We discuss the plots to kill him, US sanctions on food distribution, corruption allegations, and the corporate media’s industrial grade demonization campaign against him and his elected government.

We cannot let the oligarchs’ news media keep silent about Venezuela while the USA government formulates more attacks on Venezuela. After they are done covering the mass murders in the USA, the media will refocus on some country we are attacking. I fear for when it is Venezuela’s turn again to be in the spotlight for being the brunt of our latest war effort.

Naked Capitalism has the article Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure.

It is much harder to articulate the case for a mixed economy than the case for free markets, precisely because the mixed economy is mixed. The rebuttal takes several paragraphs. The more complex story holds that markets are substantially efficient in some realms but far from efficient in others, because of positive and negative externalities, the tendency of financial markets to create cycles of boom and bust, the intersection of self-interest and corruption, the asymmetry of information between company and consumer, the asymmetry of power between corporation and employee, the power of the powerful to rig the rules, and the fact that there are realms of human life (the right to vote, human liberty, security of one’s person) that should not be marketized.
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The political reversal of neoliberalism can only come through practical politics and policies that demonstrate how government often can serve citizens more equitably and efficiently than markets. Revision of theory will take care of itself. There is no shortage of dissenting theorists and empirical policy researchers whose scholarly work has been vindicated by events. What they need is not more theory but more influence, both in the academy and in the corridors of power. They are available to advise a new progressive administration, ifthat administration can get elected and if it refrains from hiring neoliberal advisers.

This is a more detailed defense of mixed economies than the brief defense I have been stating. I have just said that profit-driven, free market systems are not good at delivering some of what society needs. This article goes into a lot of the details that explain why my observation is true and relevant.

YouTube has the video CNN Caught Blocking Bernie Supporters From Camera w/Jordan Chariton.

If you are still focused on the Russians trying to interfere in our elections, boy do you have your sights set on the wrong target.

statuscoup.com has the original article EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Sanders Supporters Allege Bernie Black Out by CNN at Detroit Debate

The Grayzone has the article How Joe Biden’s privatization plans helped doom Latin America and fuel the migration crisis. You may know that Joe Biden has been a long term evil influence in the world, but until you read this article, you don’t know the half of it. This could be the most important article you may ever read.

“Biden is taking credit for doing something constructive to stop the migration crisis and blaming the concentration camps [on the US-Mexico border] on Trump. But it’s Biden’s policies that are driving more people out of Central America and making human rights defenders lives more precarious by defending entities that have no interest in human rights,” explained Adrienne Pine, a professor of anthropology at American University and leading researcher of the social crisis in Honduras, in an interview with The Grayzone.