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A Nightmare in November

Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...

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...

Lou Dobbs and the Mystery of the Missing Birth Certificate

Lou Dobbs has been on the air for 30 years. In chronological years, he is not an old man these days. But in keeping...

Are Neocons Making Us Latin America?

This is not about immigration or our borders. It is not about cultural differences or becoming more Hispanic. This is about a growing income...

The Obama Presidency, Looking Back

It’s been a quarter of a year now, a little more, since the end of the Obama Presidency. The contrast, and the events that...

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...

Should We Be Taking Michael Moore Seriously?

Have you seen “Where to Invade Next,” the title of the latest film by gadfly documentarian, Michael Moore? I guess his films are supposed...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier….Muslim?

Are American Muslims here only to spy on us? Are they inherently evil? Are they keeping deep dark secrets hidden in the bowels of...

Dick and Junior Go to War

This will be short. There is not much to say that is not obvious to anyone with a brain. In 2001 we were attacked...

Don’t play the Trump Distraction Game. Focus on Congress.

We're fighting the wrong wars with Donald Trump in particular and with Republicans in general.It's not about refugees coming to America. Banning immigrants without...

More on…Project for a Ruined American Century

We have come to the end of December 2009. We recently completed a year in which a former political administration, the Republican Bush Administration,...

It Can Happen Here. It’s Happening Now.

First they came after our land. Then they came after our trees. Then they came after our money. Now they want to take our...

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...

Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village

What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many...

Helen Thomas and the Problem of Palestine

Helen Thomas is a long-time, award-winning, ground-breaking reporter and columnist for the Associated Press, one of the remaining news services. She has,...