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...
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...
Jobs in the 21st Century
American society is crumbling. Our buildings, roads, bridges, dams—all our municipal facilities are breaking down. And there is very little investment being made in...
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...
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...
How the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Bill Will Devastate Average Americans.
The Republicans are up to it again. Once again, they are trying to further devastate the Middle Class. Under the guise of a popular...
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...
American Propagandists in a New Age of Propaganda
Propaganda is basically a lie with a purpose. It is a lie, or as some say, “the Big Lie,” the constant repetition of a...
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,...
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 Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections
There are always conspiracy theorists in abundance. And when it comes to elections, from Kennedy in 1960 to Bush in 2000, some people will...
The Economics of Destruction
We are in a very serious time in the history of this country. Although it may not seem so to many, about 80% of...