Billionaires, Taxes and Inequality

by Joseph O'ShaughnessyF. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly said to Hemingway: "The Rich are very different from you and me." And Hemingway is said to have...

Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming

Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time.Congress is about to change the rules on health care....

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...

Trump: A Fantasy of Being President

Donald Trump recently laid out his economic policies in a speech in Detroit, Michigan. It is no surprise he did it there. Detroit is...

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...

Trump, Bush and Rubio — The Three Blind Mice of 2016

There is so much hype about so little talent in the GOP’s “Race to Once More Losing the Presidency” that we thought it might...

Hedge Fund Managers Are Coming for Your State Pension Funds.

One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...

Bruce Rauner: Money and Neo-Fascism

For those who don’t know, Bruce Rauner is the new Republican governor of Illinois. And money? We all know what money is. Rauner is...

Big Oil

Every time you put gas in your car, you support Big Oil, the major oil companies, some of the largest global corporations in the...

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...

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...

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,...