The media establishment has erroneously labeled Donald Trump a "populist," endorsing his absurd assertion that, while he might be a billionaire, he'll be "our" billionaire, fighting for us commoners!
I'm not... Read more...
In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have fabricated a cultural myth to undermine popular support for labor: Unions, they insist, are no longer needed. They tell us that in ... Read more...
For only 47 cents, you can purchase the best bargain in America: A "Forever" postage stamp.
Stick it on an envelope, drop it in a mail box, and our phenomenal network of postal workers and letter carriers wi... Read more...
In one of Stephan Pastis' "Pearls Before Swine" comic strips, his character, "Rat," develops a smart phone app that I want. As Rat explains it: "Whenever your bank charges you some stupid fee for something, you... Read more...
Although most of us take it for granted, America's postal service is an amazing bargain.
Buy one 48-cent stamp, and postal workers will deliver your envelope to any address in the country by plane, train, bu... Read more...
Heather Bresch regards herself as a self-made corporate success story - a woman who came out of hard-scrabble West Virginia and scrambled to the top as CEO of Mylan, a leading pharmaceutical corporation. As she... Read more...
Corporate price gouging is never nice. But gouging people on the price of medicines they rely on to stay alive is worse than not nice - it's predaceously evil.
And if you think corporate morality can't go lo... Read more...
You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. For example, if a tiny group of Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and their political puppets are allowed to write the rules that govern our economy and... Read more...
Instead of griping about the greedheads of Wall Street and the ripoff financial system they've hung around our necks – why don't we "Take On Wall Street"?
That's both the name and the feisty attitude of a na... Read more...
An old saying asserts that falsehoods come in three escalating levels: "Lies, damn lies, and statistics." Now, however, there's an even-higher category of lies: a Donald Trump speech.
Take his recent address... Read more...
