America isn’t broke. There’s plenty of money to build an economy worthy of our ideals and can-do spirit December 2013Several pro football franchises have chosen chest-pounding team names meant to symbolize how big, powerful, ferocious, and scary they are–names...
A rebellion of restaurant workers is challenging the deplorable low-wage ethic of the fast-food behemoths November 2013By gollies, McDonald’s cares. Despite being a corporate behemoth (more than 14,000 stores in the US, $27 billion a year...
In the name of making us “safe,” the NSA has shredded privacy rights and now treats all citizens as suspects October 2013Rube Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of the last century, was famous for drawings of what he called “inventions” –complicated...
The support of anti-choice candidates by brand-name corporations fuels the national war on women September 2013 If you’ve never seen a pack of pompous state legislators fall into a panic, you’ve missed a scene of...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not about free trade. It’s a corporate coup d’etat–against us! August 2013In 2002, it was reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had told a friend an amusing tale about our man George W....
America’s true history is not about “Great Men,” but about grassroots rebels and movements July 2013Beginning in elementary school, we’re taught a fictionalized “Great Man” version of our history. Generals, presidents, industrialists! All are romanticized, sanctified,...
One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation’s social, economic, and moral strength June 2013Poverty in America: Bigger than ever and rapidly spreading. The flood of poor people in this Land of Plenty is being...
The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats May 2013Some of you might remember “CREEP” from 1972’s Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could’ve been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself,...
Here’s who is buying America’s democracy April 2013The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’...
Corporate kangaroo courts have quietly usurped our constitutional right to trial by judge and jury March 2013Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but getting your day in court is no picnic either. Aside from...
The drone-industrial complex wants 30,000 eyes in the sky spying on us Americans by 2020 February 2013If you drive west from Marfa, Texas toward El Paso, you’ll cross some 200 miles of uniquely beautiful desert valleys...
Five ways we can make government work for We the People in 2013 January 2013for nearly 13 years now, and while we offer a lot of information in our four pages, we often hear...
Wall Street, the Kochs, and Rove lost to the people– so let’s make Washington govern for the people December 2012As I learned from experience in my “vote-for-me” period, the nature of the political scramble is this: You win some,...
In this season of feasting, let’s celebrate real food and reject gene-tinkered tomatoes and cloned cows EMAIL TO A FRIEND PRINT THIS! DISCUSS THIS November 2012In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaignthat came tantalizingly close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl...
The Big Three Myths fabricated by right wing fabulists to frame America’s elections October 2012During the past several years, a mess of plutocratic myths has been growing like kudzu across our political landscape. This aggressive...
Guided by the Koch brothers, Republicans have installed czars to run Michigan’s cities September 2012Here’s a political storyline that might seem familiar to you: With economic pain and political discord ripping across the land, he appeared...
The minimum wage is a disgrace, and raising it would be a boon to the whole economy August 2012Sometimes, it’s useful to state the obvious. Here’s a fact, for example, that we all know to be true: America’s economy...
Oil and gas marauders are destroying our land, water, and communities all over America July 2012Whether you’re religious or not, seeing flames coming out of your kitchen faucet would be enough to make you fall to...
The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries–and what they want in return June 2012Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct...
The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery May 2012Butterflies waft across a beautiful field of spring flowers. A delightful young family bicycles joyously down a country lane. A couple...
Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders– and pay for the corporatization of war itself April 2012On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”...
The Post Office is not broke–and it hasn’t taken any of our tax money since 1971 March 2012Consider $.50. What does that buy these days? Not a cuppa joe–that’ll cost you two bucks at Starbucks, and even McDonald’s...
In the Constitution, “security” means protection from our law enforcers, not by them February 2012The earth’s core, consisting largely of iron, helps balance our spinning planet. On the other hand, the core of too many...
Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood–the cooperative movement shows us how January 2012We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around...
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America December 2011“We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide...
