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Corporate bosses are quietly investing in hordes of sophisticated autonomous robot workers to replace us. With corporations socking away massive profits, and with the labor market fairly tight, why are worker’s wages still stuck at … Read more
Two centuries after the original Luddites, like it or not, you and I are in the exact same fight. “The robots are coming! The robots are coming! … Eek! They’re already here!” Today’s proliferation of … Read more
Rather than a health care system, our country’s leaders have been keeping us shackled to a “corporate care” system. News flash: Republican congressional leaders keep coming up with still more grand schemes to fix America’s … Read more
Organizing to build populist grassroots movements is working! What’s been happening politically and culturally this year in Colorado’s second largest city is inspiring. Progressive/populist organizing to build grassroots movements to counter plutocratic rule and govern … Read more
Medicare for All is proven, no-hassle, quality care. Believe it or not, we can get Congress to enact a new program providing good quality, lower-cost health care for your family and (what the hell, let’s … Read more
This Trumpian folly of a border wall is not needed and won’t work. How much of our money does Donald Trump want to pour into his xenophobic fantasy of erecting an impenetrable wall on our … Read more
Our world is built on a foundation of sand, and believe it or not, it’s running out. Little known fact: Practically every skyscraper in every one of the world’s cities is essentially made of sand. … Read more
ALEC is sponsoring corrupt special interest bills across America Just days after last November’s election, jubilant members and top staffers of the notorious corporate front group, American Legislative Exchange Council, gathered for a celebratory lunch … Read more
Only a decade later, here come the Wall Street burglars again! The self-described “Geniuses of Wall Street” are being stupid. Again. In 2007, their stupid schemes and frauds crashed our economy, destroying middle-class jobs, wealth … Read more
Is John Deere trying to make outlaws of do-it-yourselfers? When I was a boy, I loved spending time with my Uncle Ernest and Aunt Eula on their small northeast Texas farm. They pulled a frugal … Read more