Graham Platner, a Democrat who has got the message – fighting the billionaires
I’ve been very frustrated that, with very few exceptions, the Democratic Party continues to fail to fight the Billionaire Class. How is it that they […]
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Bringing Down a Dictator
Lessons from Serbia that are very applicable today in the US With our political system increasingly a dictatorship by Trump and his billionaire supporters, we […]
How the Rich & Corporations Control Government – a fifty year story……
In my research over the past ten years into why the US looks the way it does, early on I noticed that, despite the rhetoric […]
Why taxing the rich & corporations is not the only step we need to take – reversing the top-down class warfare
Many on the left are calling for increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to fund the government while reducing the burden on most Americans. […]
Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review
I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]
A call to my fellow veterans to stand up to Trump deployments
This is an opinion piece by my brother Ed Orton. It appeared in the Seattle Times on 9.12.2025 By Edward Orton Special to The […]
Conservatives are all about big government
socialism by and for the rich and corporations Conservative ideology calls for as little government as possible and celebrates the miracle of the efficiencies of […]
What’s a Billion Dollars Look Like?
These big numbers a way beyond counting on your fingers – try a trillion With the surge in the number of billionaires around the world […]
David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people
What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]
Intel and Financialization – harvesting money brings loss of focus on products….
Intel is in the news these days because it’s stumbling and Trump efforts to make our government a shareholder. Professor Bill Lazonick spoke about financialization […]