How Fred Upton and Whirlpool Devastated Arkansas and Michigan.
Large corporations are often so huge that it is difficult to get one’s head around their size and their influence. General Electric, for example,...
Why Regulations Are Important
Rusty Billingsley was an ironworker who loved horses and loved his job. He was employed at the massive Las Vegas City Center project, a...
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...
Ending 2018, Seeking True Populism
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Joseph O'Shaughnessy
As we race through space in late November 2018, the United States is in great turmoil and some would say in great danger.
The...
How Cable Companies Use ALEC to Get in Your Pocket
About 100 million people in the U.S. pay for what by comparison with other countries is substandard cable or satellite TV every year. Both...
Inequality and Poverty
Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...
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...
Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic...
No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian...
The Reagan Legacy: Economic and Social Disaster
The United States was once the envy of the entire world. Even some very wealthy and prominent individuals in England and France settled here...
Who Is Stealing Your Retirement and Why?
It’s about time you faced some increasingly obvious facts. Your own corporation is stealing your retirement income. Corporations are freezing defined benefit plans, shutting...
The Nightmare of U.S. Private Prisons
With everything else you have to worry about—Fascism in government, domestic terrorists and the lack of intelligent response, a congress trying to overthrow all...
The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin
The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as...
Glenn Beck Attacks Unions
Glenn Beck, the supposedly middle class hero, turns out to be a hollowed out Tin Man. Lately, we noticed that this self-style man of...
Big Oil
Every time you put gas in your car, you support Big Oil, the major oil companies, some of the largest global corporations in the...
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...