Truth or Consequences

In the great annals of our entertainment history, after radio became a staple of daily listening and then later television, there was a program...

The Grand Illusion, Part II

Part II -- Who is telling all those lies...and why? They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They...

The Myth of the American Political Center

Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing...

The Rich Are Winning

When we look at the past year and a half since President Obama and his staff have come to office, we can only shake...

The Truth About George Soros…And Other Matters

George Soros is in the news these days because, in 2004, he bankrolled a considerable part of the effort to contain the horrendous, near-cataclysmic...

How Conservatism Becomes Fascism

In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and...

The Organized Republican Right-Wing Resistance

It takes very little to understand it. There is no point in trying to pretend that it does not exist. It is so blatantly...

The Reagan Legacy: Economic and Social Disaster

The United States was once the envy of the entire world. Even some very wealthy and prominent individuals in England and France settled here...

Truth and Freedom of the Press

It might surprise some people to learn that according to an organization called Reporters without Borders, a group that monitors freedom of the press...

Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.

Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g.,...

Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I

In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet...

Racism and Neoconservatism

What Must Be Said… Since the late 1960s, Americans have held the belief--which we now know has been a false belief--that we had gone past...

Newsmax.com and the New Phony Journalism

The Internet has been a blessing and  has been certainly the most significant development thus far in the 21st Century.  Bringing the truth to...

Wake Up, America!

When will Americans finally wake up? Corporations have taken over the United States. The Republican Party has become, as Anthony Weiner said, in his...

Republican Town Hall Mobs…Concerned Citizens or American Taliban?

It is time that we face a significant fact. There are a lot of people in this country who, while they believe that they...