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...

Another Look at Unions

It is time to revisit the issue of unions. Why are unions important? They are important because unions represent the people. Government used to...

The Greatest Robbery in the History of the World

In 2008, the top income earners in this country and major corporations and the Republican Party and Wall Street completed the greatest theft of...

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...

American Stagnation

America has never been richer. Private assets amount to over $80 trillion, more than four times the national debt and the GDP. Yet the...

ALEC and the Corporate Takeover of America

Our government at local, state and national levels is being confiscated by huge corporations. It is happening every day in state legislatures all over...

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...

Republican Fascism, 2018

by Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy Some people think that, because the entire federal government, and the government of 30 states is in the hands of one political...

The Scott Walker Story

Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito...

Face it, Folks. We Now Live in a Neo-Fascist Society.

by Joseph O'Shaughnessy The attacks on the people will begin to increase now. The hugely wealthy backers of the Republican Party got what they wanted….more...

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 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...

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...

Fascism. It Can Happen Here. In Fact, It Has Happened Here.

by Joseph O'Shaughnessy There is an old adage that used to be said about many things in this country that were out of the mainstream "Well,...

Tax Cut Consequences–the First Test of the Fascist Agenda

by Joseph O'Shaughnessy Have you heard the old “how to cook a frog” story? Of course you have, if you have ever been to a national...