Peter's Place

Zohran Mamdani's Mandate and the Death of the Old Playbook   As John Lennon sang,  Imagine all the people, livin' life in peace... I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. This week, the world took a step closer toward living as one as the city serving as the world's stage, New York City, elected a person as mayor with that same vision, albeit half a century later. Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory, powered by a record-breaking turnout of over two million voters, was not just an election--it was a mandate. It was a clear, unambiguous declaration from the people that the "same-old, same-old" isn't working anymore. But before this new future can be fully realized there remain many struggles ahead a little bit of housekeeping to take care of. That housekeeping concerns the "establishment playbook"—a cynical set of tactics that says if you can't win on facts, use fear. It’s a playbook that relies on dirty, underhanded tactic...

Hillary Clinton must release the transcripts of her paid speeches. #ReleaseTheTranscripts Following is the text of a file attached to the Wikileaks email dump of Tony Carrk, from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential primary campaign, to the campaign team. It contains certain extracts from the transcripts of various paid speeches Hillary Clinton gave to Wall Street, among others, that she has refused to release . I'm publishing it here so people don't have to download the .docx file. I performed a copy & paste from the attached file as noted above, and made the following minor changes for formatting purposes: Conformed the typeface to be the same throughout the document (done on a global basis). Tightened and conformed line spacing wherever possible. Changed the font size for the document title. Inserted beginning and ending reference points, so there is no doubt as to where, exactly, the contents of the file begin and end. No modifications or chang...