The Neocons
When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to...
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...
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...
Neocon Lies About Taxes and Austerity
We have to stay on point, stay focused. The time has passed when the average American family can be civil and or laid back...
Are the Republicans Really Fascists? A Comparison.
Anyone can call someone else a name. People call others Fascists or Nazis all the time on the Internet. People who have these little...
The Neocon Republican Candidates—A Rogues Gallery
What a bunch of losers we saw in the first Republican debate. It was shallow, obfuscating and ignored reality.
We’ll start off by saying...
The Current Common Wisdom Is Wrong
We often refer to the "common wisdom" in society, the general knowledge passed on by word of mouth locally, regionally and eventually expressed in...
Neocon Corporate Moguls Attack Middle Class Workers
This is a country that has created some of the greatest industries and the greatest fortunes in the history of the world.
In 1883...
May 1910 to May 2010–100 Years of…Progress?
By 1910, the United States had changed from a collection of states along the Atlantic Coast and a group of Southern slavery states to...
Open Letter to Tea Party: Take a Hard Left Turn
Before anyone who is a true Populist is going to believe that you, the Tea Party members are remotely legitimate and not simply stooges...
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...
Tax the Rich and Save the Country
It is time that we stopped thinking about fairness, goodness, and justice. Fairness went out the window with Reagan. There never was enough goodness...
The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...
In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...
The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions
So what are the solutions to our economic problems?
They’d better be good. The Bush Administration left us with an enormous mess.
In...
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...