Wars and Militarism

It’s been a quarter of a year now, a little more, since the end of the Obama Presidency. The contrast, and the events that...

by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...

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

Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...

What is Vladimir Putin doing and why is he doing it? Putin has made his move into the Middle East. One of the most...

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...

Many people think of Fascism and they think of Nazis and the Gestapo and concentration camps. That concept, while accurate as far as it...

Propaganda is basically a lie with a purpose. It is a lie, or as some say, “the Big Lie,” the constant repetition of a...

So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by...

We have serious economic problems.As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...

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

It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...

In 2008, the top income earners in this country and major corporations and the Republican Party and Wall Street completed the greatest theft of...

In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton...

A lot of Right Wing radio commentators toss around the word “Nazi” these days and it seems that many of them have no idea...