The New York Times Strikes Out
Article on Bernie Sanders and Our Revolution in the New York Times was indeed NOT “fit to print.” For more than a century, The New York Times has … Read more
Jim Hightower’s Column
Political commentary column by Jim Hightower. Often serious, but Jim uses his trademark biting satire to make important points.
A Wall Won’t Fix Immigration
Illegal immigration is often the result of the abject poverty and violence that people face in their homeland. No wall will fix that, nor stop the influx. The … Read more
What Does the Democratic Party Want?
Where is the Democratic Party? The Party of the People is stuck in the status quo — the still-reigning, old-line hierarchy of the Democratic party is unwilling to … Read more
How Bad Public Policy Happens: eg, Trump’s Attack on the US Post Office
Trump attacks the Post Office to get back at Bezos Question: If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the … Read more
A Wall Street Sin Tax
One way to restore some fiscal sanity is a “Wall Street Sin Tax.” The moneyed populace is adroit at getting Congress to shift America’s tax burden to workers, … Read more
Goons in Gucci
Bands of nouveau corporate royalists are today’s Goons in Gucci In the fierce labor wars of the last century, industrial barons employed Pinkertons and other goons to bloody … Read more
Trump’s New War
Get ready, America — here we go… to war! This kind of war is an affront to the values that most of us hold dear, and this war … Read more
Patience and Secrecy in the Koch Brothers’ Complex Conspiracy
The Koch brothers would love to replace majority rule with a new governing order that empowers the owner class. In 1933, a handful of wealthy Wall Streeters were … Read more
A Plutocratic Coup
Yes, there was a real plutocratic coup attempt by the richest men on Wall Street to take over the USA, in 1933. It could happen again. Many Americans … Read more
Examining the Kochtopus
The super-rich Koch brothers want to supplant America’s will of The People with their own plutocracy. The multibillionaire Charles and David Koch brothers want nothing less than to … Read more
