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...

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...

Republicans Attacking Americans’ Affordable Health Care

The Patient’s Responsibility and Affordable Health Care Act—commonly known as Obamacare—had a remarkable milestone recently. After something like the 50th or 60th Republican House...

Unions and the Middle Class

It’s time we began to look for ways to organize large numbers of people against the now dominant power of the Plutocracy. Unions are...

The Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections – Part II

So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by...

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...

Democrats in 2014

If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...

The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...

Rich Getting Richer. Poor Getting Poorer.

In the United States today, the rich are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorer. The facts are clear. They are reported by...

Putin and the Russian Economy

In the Fall of 1952, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to Vladimir Spirodonovich and Maria Ivanovna Putin. His father...

Monetary Madness and Economic Cowardice

Since 2008 and the onset of the Great Bush Depression, we have seen some of the most remarkable and inane economic theories ever proposed...

The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems...

We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic...

The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression

The United States has been in decline since 1981.That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...

Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget

Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today's Neo-Conservative agenda...the Paul Ryan Republican Budget...

The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...

In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...