Today's riddle: how can Dubya's final days produce more blessings than Obama's finale? Answer: Dubya spawned reform while Obama aborted it. Dubya's reign so jolted…
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Sometimes I wonder if today’s crop of U.S. pundits and pols could ever rise to meet some truly urgent need of the American people, let…
Following elaborate legislative contortions and gimmicks designed to hand multinational corporations their top priority, today the U.S. Senate paved the way for Fast Track legislation…
How the US government and CIA have used drugs as weapons against Americans, with John Potash
The Limping Left Can’t run, can’t walk, can’t even crawl Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, June 9, 2014 In his…
The following is an excerpt from Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe [3]by Erik Loomis (The New Press, [4] 2015): The new environmental…
The Fast Track trade authority package was rejected Friday because two years of effort by a vast corporate coalition, the White House and GOP leaders…
When it comes to his administration’s foreign policy, Barack Obama must feel a little like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought…
Senator Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the presidency of the United States is in full blossom, on tour with rousing speeches to standing room only extraordinarily…
At the dawn of the 20th century, very few American students attended high school, as the demands of the heavy-industrial and the agricultural economies of that…
A complex class system exists in the United States, but the mass media and political rhetoric generally reduces it to three components — one middle class,…
The Cop Is On the Take Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down…