<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">Amanda
Taub, a product of Uni High, has been given the “interpreter” title at the NYT,
with unfortunate results for truthfulness:</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24pt;"><b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">NYT
article by Amanda Taub</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="margin: 0px; color: blue;"><u><font face="Calibri">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront</font></u></span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">Dean
Baker’s comment:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24pt;"><b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">One
Way to Protect Democracy Is to Stop Pushing Policies that Redistribute Income
Upward </span></b><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 24pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">Published:
12 February 2018 </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">That
one is apparently not on the agenda, at least according to Amanda Taub's NYT
"The Interpreter" <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 145, 176);"><u><font face="Calibri">piece</font></u></span></a>. The piece notes
the declining support for center right and center left parties in most western
democracies. While it notes that people feel unrepresented by these parties, it
never states the obvious, these parties have consistently supported monetary,
fiscal, trade, and intellectual property policies that redistribute an
ever-larger share of income to people like Bill Gates and Robert Rubin.</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">It
should not be surprising that most of the public is not enthralled with this
outcome and the parties that promote it. And yes, there are alternatives, as I
point out in my (free) book, <a href="https://deanbaker.net/books/rigged.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><i><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 145, 176);"><u><font face="Calibri">Rigged: How Globalization and
the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer</font></u></span></i></a>.</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/one-way-to-protect-democracy-is-to-stop-pushing-policies-that-redistribute-income-upward" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="margin: 0px; color: blue;"><u><font face="Calibri">http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/one-way-to-protect-democracy-is-to-stop-pushing-policies-that-redistribute-income-upward</font></u></span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="margin: 0px; color: blue;"><u><font face="Calibri">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/europe/europe-politics-far-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront</font></u></span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Commenter
at NYT: “</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">The
NYT insists on framing as "far right" the most mainstream goals of
any government: putting their citizens first, controlling their borders, and
making the economy work for the average citizen.</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><br>
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Liberal values, open immigration, global institutions that benefit citizens of
other (often poor countries) have no real support, other than in the la la land
of the liberal press and liberal western elites.<br>
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The so called "far right" or "populist" movements are
simply a yearning to a return to mainstream goals.”</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">Video
by Amada Taub and Max Fisher<b>, Is There Something Wrong with Democracy? (5
min.)</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14pt;">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/24/world/is-there-something-wrong-with-democracy.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Famanda-taub&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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