Pandemic Profiteers, Trump and Peter Cottontail
Trump and the Republican Senate are enabling pandemic profiteers, at everyone’s expense. Wartime profiteering is an especially vile form of corporate greed, yet it has been as common … Read more
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Health Care for People… or for Corporate Profits?
The decades-long struggle to ensure decent health care as a human right is up against greed’s eternal struggle for ever-higher corporate profits. When grassroots groups rise up against … Read more
Can ‘Powerless Nobodies’ Fight the Corporate Powers?
Corporate powers like the Formosa Plastics Corporation need to be held accountable. The many sparkling bays along the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico have long provided … Read more
Where to Get the Money to Start Fixing Inequality
Is fixing inequality even possible? When Jesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to address fixing inequality, establishment … Read more
Why Would We Trust Plutocrats to Save Us from Plutocracy?
Forgive me for not believing for a moment that there’s one iota of sincerity in this sudden assertion of egalitarian sentiment by today’s plutocrats. Ralph Waldo Emerson once … Read more
Is Health Care More Important Than Health Care Profits?
A majority of Americans want a major overhaul of our corporate health care system. Last year, Donald Trump said something stupid. OK, nothing astonishing about that — just … Read more
Playing Monopoly for Real
What the gutsy Boston Tea Party rebels were actually tossing was corporate monopoly power. Get your heave-ho muscles in shape, for the monopolists are back. Shouting “Down with … Read more
As We Gape at the Trump Sideshow, Corporations Are Picking Our Pockets
We have been captured by the mesmerizing All Things Trump sideshow — while we are being robbed blind. As America rapidly urbanized in the 1920s and ’30s, nearly … Read more
Trumponomics: Batman … or Dracula?
Trump’s economic report report is shamelessly grandiose, replete with flagrant fabrications, in other words, just more Trumponomics. It’s shocking, I tell you, shocking, that some millionaires and billionaires … Read more
Corporations Are Playing with Our Food — and with Our Heads
Food fabricators of industrial agriculture are using Recombinetics to mess with our food and the very DNA of Mother Nature. From kitchen tables worldwide, you can hear a … Read more
