James Talarico talks about 50 years of class warfare
I stumbled on this clip by the candidate for Senator from Texas, James Talarico. Finally, we have a few Democrats talking about what has happened […]
Politics
What is Neoliberalism?
an outline Back in 2022, as I was working on my now-published book, THE HEIST – How the rich and corporations stole the American dream, […]
Trump’s Proposed $1.5 Trillion War Budget
a truly staggering number This chart shows the 2022 distribution of US war spending relative to the world. Trump’s proposed 50% increase in the war […]
Expanding on Robert Reich’s Pledges for Democrats – there’s a lot to like, but we can improve on it
Reich published What Democrats Must Pledge to America – Ten ways to make America more affordable on 12.5.2025. Here are the bold titles for the […]
The Billionairification of America – democracy is dead in the US
The Billionairification of America The Forbes billionaires list in 2019 numbered 607 in the US. By April 2024, the number had grown by 34% to […]
Pervasive Anonymity Is a Significant Threat
recent ICE masking is the tip of the iceberg of this destructive practice The appearance of various masked Federal agents seizing people on the street […]
A Poem for This Day Before the Self-Inflicted Famine
from an acquaintance in my old hometown I follow David Olivencia’s occasional comments about life on his blog Letters from a Postman. This one caught […]
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 […]
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 […]