17 Articles

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
As GM Goes ...
(1 comments) With the big manufacturers facing bankruptcy and the Bernanke, Geithner and Obama triumvirate feeling the need to shred the safety net, it's conceivable that the middle class slide will not end simply in a lower standard of living, but in poverty and civil unrest.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Bernanke's Hammer
As long as deposits are insured, banks are fungible- which is proven every day as U.S. banks go under and are seamlessly absorbed by the FDIC, deposits, debts and all, consumers usually none the wiser.

Monday, February 23, 2009
The Stimulus and The Confidence Game
Forget the stop-gap teensy tax cut drivel and permanently eliminate the payroll tax on everyone making less than $75,000 a year as well as on the vulnerable small businesses that provide so many jobs. That will put another 7.65% of personal earnings into the economy and give businesses another 7.65% of payroll to use as needed. Now that's a stimulus!

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Requiem for Israel
(2 comments) As a horrified world watches Israel demonstrate its military supremacy over a poor and unarmed population, something else is happening. If you listen closely, you might hear a sad death knell in the distance, and it isn't for the Palestinians. What we may be witnessing now is Israel's slow motion suicide.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Gupta for Surgeon General? Geithner for Treasury? Obama for Irrelevance.
(2 comments) The usual sequence is that we elect people who use their office to commit crimes and defraud us. This time we have the opportunity to get a jump on the time table with a Treasury Secretary whom we know in advance is a cheat.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Detroit vs. Wall Street: The Trillion Dollar Class War
(12 comments) If anyone doubted that a class war is in progress, hidden beneath a variety of euphemisms, like 'bail out', 'downsizing,' 'outsourcing' and 'NAFTA', their doubts can now be given the decent burial that they deserve.

Saturday, November 22, 2008
Repairing the Congress – Citizen Disconnect
(5 comments) Too often Congress makes clear that the wishes of the electorate aren't worth the cost of the ballots they cast.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Trickle Up Poverty and the Paulson Railroad
The scare tactics that railroad decision makers into instant action with no time for responsible discussion are the way that the Patriot Act was passed. It's the method of a huckster. And just to make sure everyone understands that they're being taken for a one-way ride to the edge, Paulson insists that his decisions are not to be reviewed by 'any court or any administrative body.' Wouldn't that make him king?

Monday, September 15, 2008
Barack, Joe: STOP IT!
(9 comments) The election is getting nasty, again. It's time to reassess the Democrats options.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Obama's Veepstakes: The REAL Dream Team
(4 comments) Many possible vice-presidential running mates have been suggested for Obama but, if you cut through the nonsense, only a few make sense.

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Bashing Hillary; Electing Obama
(9 comments) Despite the fact that many of us think she has lost her way on some issues, she deserves respect for her sound record of liberal leadership and for being an intrepid trail blazer for women. She has kept the faith with us better, on most days, than we have with her.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Texas Polygamy: Punishing the Victims
(3 comments) Texas authorities must have waited impatiently for a reason to storm the compound, and finally, tenuous as it was, they got it. It came in the form of anonymous calls from a woman who has not been found, detailing abuse that cannot be confirmed, in a compound where she did not live.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Reckoning: The U.S. As A Banana Republic?
(1 comments) The U.S. is headed for a lower standard of living thanks to globalization, rootless multinational corporations and a government that has been bought and paid for by lobbyists. This article explores life in a third world country.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Indestructible Food: With Love from America, Inc.
(2 comments) Big Agra and the Corporate Media have conspired to further degrade the food supply and keep us in the dark even as the health problems of Americans continues to rise.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
President Hillary? President Obama? Says Who?
(9 comments) The media stampede has us believing that our choices for the Democratic presidential nominee are already set in stone. History shows it isn't so.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
TB, Bird Flu and Photo Ops
TB infected Andrew Speaker deserves an apology for CDCs overreaction.

Friday, April 13, 2007
Uneasy Alliance: Nuclear Power and Capitalism
(2 comments) With corporate malfeasance on display almost daily, can we trust publicly traded companies to provide the U.S. with nuclear energy?