Comcast’s Own Game of Thrones.
I don't watch much live television. But I do like to watch ballgames and golf and certain types of British television programming. I'm not...
Rich Republican Fascists Using Trump to Destroy Middle Class
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Joseph D. O’ShaughnessyIt is not Trump. It is the long-term policies of the Super-Rich Right Wing, merely using Trump's Presidency to continue their goal...
The Koch Brothers, Libertarianism and the Growth of Neo-Fascism
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Joseph O’ShaughnessyThe Koch Family History
By now, many people know the name “Koch brothers.” Sadly, however, not enough of the American voting population. The Koch...
Now Do You See What We Mean by Republican Neo-Fascists?
by Joseph O'ShaughnessyIf you're going to be a good Fascist, here's what you do.Divide and Conquer. Find a scapegoat, preferably one with some disadvantage,...
Don’t play the Trump Distraction Game. Focus on Congress.
We're fighting the wrong wars with Donald Trump in particular and with Republicans in general.It's not about refugees coming to America. Banning immigrants without...
Billionaires, Taxes and Inequality
by Joseph O'ShaughnessyF. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly said to Hemingway: "The Rich are very different from you and me." And Hemingway is said to have...
Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming
Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time.Congress is about to change the rules on health care....
How Republicans Tried to Kill Obamacare and Give Us the Cheap...
We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.
Donald Trump Is No Populist.
by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...
The Koch Brothers, Trump and the Theft of the American Dream
Please take a look at the Koch Brothers' latest piece of propaganda--quite probably the worst and perhaps most consequential lie ever told in a...
The Sanders Revolution
The world is changing again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...
A Nightmare in November
Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...
The foundations of American Neo-Fascism
Hitler, above all, was a racist. He thought that interbreeding between different races was wrong, but not merely wrong—disastrously wrong. He thought that Darwin’s...
Bruce Rauner: Money and Neo-Fascism
For those who don’t know, Bruce Rauner is the new Republican governor of Illinois. And money? We all know what money is. Rauner is...
Governor Brownback, the Wizard of Oz
Has Kansas, under Governor Sam Brownback, become second-rate, with a semi-Fascist government? The answer is in the history of the state since Brownback took...