Create New Unions to Rebuild the Middle Class
By Joseph O’ShaughnessyWe’ve written about unions here before, about how unions gave us the forty-hour workweek and weekends and pensions and a lifestyle that...
How Republicans Tried to Kill Obamacare and Give Us the Cheap...
We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.
There You Go Again, Donald…
The hits to the American people just keep coming. Trump's cabinet is a who's who of the richest, Rightist, wrongist group of characters ever...
Down Trump’s Golden Brick Road
We must examine the Trump infrastructure plan.At first, it sounds, well, pretty good. And then you get the details.First, why do you think Trump...
The Sanders Revolution
The world is changing again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...