Comcast’s Own Game of Thrones.
I don't watch much live television. But I do like to watch ballgames and golf and certain types of British television programming. I'm not...
Glenn Beck: Clown Prince of Propaganda
There is always a question whether or not to give any kind of attention to the show-off--the kid who acts out in class because...
The Palin Ascendency
When Sarah Palin was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate in 2008 to run with John McCain, she seemed a nice, relatively simple woman...
The State of American Monopolistic Media
Do you wonder why you only see the typical kind of "he-said, she-said" commentary--and news, too--that calls for some flack on one side of...
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...
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...
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...
Glenn Beck Attacks Unions
Glenn Beck, the supposedly middle class hero, turns out to be a hollowed out Tin Man. Lately, we noticed that this self-style man of...
Democrats in 2014
If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...
Expansion, Not Austerity
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with...
There are Lies…Damned Lies…And Then There Is Fox News!
Rupert Murdoch is not a likable man. He deals in...is mired in...sleaze media. But like the operator of any profitable strip club, he knows...
Understanding Political Reality
Life is not a game show. The realities of electing the moronic, semi-troglodytic President’s son as President…or having the Supreme-Court-justice son of a rumored...
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...
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...
The “R” Word
In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,...