Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing January 2016Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day!” But first, to help you absorb the big one, here’s a...
ISDS: A corporate cluster bomb to obliterate our people's sovereignty January 2016The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist...
Why have major TV networks pulled the plug on Bernie? January 2016Let’s go to the scoreboard to see who’s winning the exciting game of “Presidential Election Media Coverage.” A non-partisan media...
Hello Congress: Meet your poverty-wage food servers January 2016Back in 2008, Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein declared: “There are parts of government that can be run like a business...
The corporate game behind football bowl games January 2016For thrilling sports action on television, it’s hard to top the sheer excitement of bowling, isn’t it? No, not that...
EXPLAINING CONGRESSIONAL MORALITY December 2015It’s always interesting to see Congress in action – though “interesting” can also be appalling. For example, what a sight...
Shoveling America's wealth to the top December 2015As an old country saying puts it, “Money is like manure – it does no good unless you spread it...
Driving America's yellow school bus to educational hell December 2015Public education used to be, you know, public – as in: An essential societal investment for the betterment of all,...
Turning human misery into corporate profits December 2015Good news, people: The “boom” is back! Good times are here again, thanks to an economic boom generated by (of...
DADDY'S PHILOSOPHY December 2015This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of...
"We the People," not We the Corporations December 2015In response to the Supreme Court’s freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political “personhood” on corporations, I got an email...
The fountain-pen economy December 2015Even the word “greed” is not negative enough to characterize the all-out assault on workers by today’s corporate elite. From...
Where's the ethical balance of America's scales of justice? December 2015Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own...
Merry Christmas, right-wingers, The Red Pope, and Jesus December 2015Here’s a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep. First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing...
Big food's big fat obesity hokum December 2015Hey, kids – you don’t want to be a fatso, but that doesn’t mean you have to cut back on...
Does Obama even know what's in his TPP deal? December 2015Last spring, President Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the gleaming Trans-Pacific Partnership he’s trying to sell to Congress...
Should America swallow WTO's billion-dollar toad? December 2015They say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to...
Epitaph for a greedy, malevolent industrialist December 2015Unlike the CEOs of most giant corporations, Don Blankenship’s outward appearance actually reveals what’s inside: An arrogant, conniving, cutthroat industrial...
The sleaze, guilt, and punishment of Don Blankenship December 2015Don Blankenship didn’t get what he deserves in his federal trial, but he definitely deserves what he got. “Guilty,” declared...
Can craft beer drinkers defeat the beer monopolists? December 2015Everybody in BeerWorld, listen up: This Bud’s for you! Or so we’re told by the excitable executives of Anheuser-Busch InBev....
Coca-Cola's corrosive corporate ethos December 2015If your car’s battery terminals are corroded, just open a can of Coca-Cola. Coke will dissolve corrosion, making your battery...
Guess who's pushing for prison reform? December 2015“Too many people are behind bars that don’t belong there,” declared a group demanding major reforms to America’s throw-’em-all-in-jail, mass...
Why has nefarious corporate behavior become so commonplace? December 2015As a raker of muck, it’s my job to root out the nefarious doings and innate immorality of the corporate...
Rafael and Ted Cruz: Like father, like son December 2015Memo to future presidential candidates from Ted Cruz: (1) If you’re going to issue an autobiography to promote your campaign;...
Building monopolies, one merger after another December 2015There’s a new surge in the corporate urge to merge. Not long ago, monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies were not only...
