Who Stole Your Social Security and Why?

Social Security is not an abstract concept. It is not a series of numbers on a chart. It is life and death to one...

Are the Republicans Really Fascists? A Comparison.

Anyone can call someone else a name. People call others Fascists or Nazis all the time on the Internet. People who have these little...

Neoconservative Vs. Liberal

Let's make some distinctions, shall we, so that when Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or some other anti-American, pro-internationalist, pro-corporate hack comes on television...

The Republicans and Growing Neo-Fascism in America

Many people think of Fascism and they think of Nazis and the Gestapo and concentration camps. That concept, while accurate as far as it...

Democracy, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Neoconservatism

Pass this on to any drooling tea bagger you happen to see wandering down the street carrying a sign and a gun. They clearly...

How  “Medicare for All” Can Easily Be Funded by the Super-Rich. 

Medicare for All is a plan to bring health care to everyone in the United States, primarily to citizens but also, in some form, accessible to non-citizens, such as exchange workers and students and perhaps in some form of payment to non citizens resident aliens, pending naturalization.

Republican Fraud and the True Democratic Populism

byJoseph O’ShaughnessyOne aspect of American life is becoming more evident each and every day. The propaganda that has been spread using the money of...

The Next Two Years

The November 2014 elections were pretty clear. In some states Senators or Governors won by as many as 70% of the vote. Of course,...

Hedge Fund Managers Are Coming for Your State Pension Funds.

One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...

The Failure of Conservative Economics–Part II. Ronald Reagan

In the period from the 1950s until the late 1970s, the Conservatives were largely considered Right Wing radicals and economic zealots. Republicans of...

National Debt Solution: Create Jobs. Repeal Tax Cuts. Nationalize Energy

It is time for a reality check. It is far beyond time for a reality check. We are standing on the edge of a...

Income Inequality and Taxation

What is income inequality and what does it mean to the average person? Does it matter to you or me if someone makes 20...

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...

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...

The Case For Liberal Economics

We have serious economic problems.As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...