FACTS FOR ACTION ON HEALTH CARE January 2008Widely-reported fact Number One: our country faces a growing health care crisis, that leaves 47 million Americans with no health...
PAYING THE PRICE FOR NAFTA January 2008New Year’s Day is normally considered a harbringer of hope, but this New Year dawned as a day of dread...
MY “ORDER OF MERIT” January 2008Have you ever been unexpectedly honored with a special award? If so, you know how thrilled I was to get...
TAKING CARE OF THE SMITHSONIAN January 2008Our national attic is caving in. “America’s attic” is the unofficial name of the venerable Smithsonian Institution. This is the...
THE LUXURY OF CHINESE LABOR January 2008Officials in China have had some trouble making translations from Chinese to English. For example, a sign to alert visitors...
THE BIZARE IDOLIZATION OF REAGAN December 2007I must admit that the seven-year reign of Bush & Company makes me yearn for the years of Ronald Reagan,...
AMERICA’S GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE December 2007What happened to the good ol’ American notion of the common good – the idea that we’re all in this...
GIVING AWAY APPALACHIA December 2007Boy, things are hectic inside the Bush regime these days! The clock is ticking, and Corporate America is rushing to...
UNFRIENDLY SKIES December 2007Travel in some primitive parts of the world is a nightmare – passengers are treated like livestock, service is surly,...
GIFTS FOR A HAPPIER NEW YEAR December 2007Wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each of...
CORPORATE AMERICA’S “CHEAP” IMPORT ADDICTION December 2007Goodness gracious, China – clean up your act! The news is filled with horror stories of China’s nasty exports coming...
LOBBYIST GO SHOPPING December 2007‘Tis the shopping season, and many bedraggled consumers are going store to store seeking gifts for loved ones. But the...
FREE MARKET HYPOCRITES December 2007Here’s today’s provocative question from professor Hightower: Why do so many giant corporations hate the marketplace? Yes, hate. Oh, sure...
COMMANDER BUSH “WINS” ONE December 2007At last, George W can claim a breakthrough in his six year war in Afghanistan. Things have not been going...
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT December 2007Whether it’s Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, the Winter Solstice, or some other spiritual and cultural occasion that you’re celebrating this month...
LETTER TO AMERICAN AIRLINES December 2007You frequent fliers will call me a fool for even thinking that I could reason with the CEO of a...
BATTLING MONSANTO’S DOCTORED MILK December 2007Time for another Gooberhead Award [Beanie Cap Breakdown] – presented periodically to people in the news who have their tongues...
THE E. COLI LOOPHOLE December 2007Step right up, consumers, and get your pre-cooked, USDA-approved package of E. coli beef! Wait. Did he say E. coli?...
SWEATSHOP CRUCIFIXES December 2007Just in time for Christmas comes something that Christians worldwide will consider to be an abomination: crucifixes and other religious...
WHY NOT HEALTH CARE FOR ALL? December 2007Sergio Olaya is a 21-year-old college student who has had to drop out of school because of our country’s messed...
BOOTING BUSH’S BUDDIES December 2007Whew – it’s getting lonelier and lonelier at the top for George W, as his “Coalition of the Willing” buddies...
THE COST OF LIVING EXTREMELY WELL December 2007Time for anther peek [Lifestyles theme] into the “Lifestyles of the Rich… and Cranky.” The vast majority of Americans –...
SWEATFREE COMMUNITIES December 2007If you wish there was something you could do about some of the worst abuses of corporate globalization, check out...
BIG-SPENDING GEORGE December 2007George W likes to pose as the Texas president – in the rough-hewn, rancher model of Lyndon Johnson. However, George...
CASHIERING CHARLIE PRINCE December 2007We’re told by the Powers That Be that CEO’s of major corporations are the best of the best in America’s...
