ISDS: A corporate cluster bomb to obliterate our people's sovereignty August 2015The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist...
Peeking behind Walmart's promise to invest in American jobs August 2015Great news: Walmart is investing in American jobs! It says so right here in a colorful, full-page ad showing a...
Doug Hughes: Protecting Democracy from Plutocrats August 2015The price of liberty is said to be eternal vigilance. But just being watchful rarely does anything to stop the...
You, too, can be part of Scott Walker's inner circle August 2015If you think that none of today’s presidential candidates care about people like you, check out Republican Scott Walker. The...
Phil Gramm campaigns against bigotry and exploitation of workers August 2015Phil Gramm, the former right-wing senator from Texas, has surprised me. I had assumed he had zero charitable instincts, for...
Big political donors buying elections… and public policies August 2015Who does David Keating think he’s fooling? He heads an obscure, corporate-funded group pushing to wipe out the few remaining...
Superrich donors turn our democracy into their plutocracy August 2015The problem with the GOP presidential debates is that the wrong people are on stage. Sure, Bush, Cruz, Walker, and...
It's time to free students from higher-ed debt August 2015In the 1960s, I attended the University of North Texas, a public school blessed with good teachers and an educational...
"Non-candidate" campaigns dominate 2016 presidential race August 2015Once upon a time in our Good Ol’ USofA, presidential contenders and their political parties raised the funds needed to...
Little Caesars' bacon bomb August 2015Let me say one word to you: Bacon. Not only is it delicious, it’s practically irresistible – I even know...
Banksters: A Story of crime and punishment August 2015Big story from that razzle-dazzle place called “El Casino Grande” – otherwise known as Wall Street. Four massive financial conglomerates –JPMorgan...
Corporate crime supported by a whirligig of legal favoritism August 2015This is odd: America’s laws to deter corporate crime actually force victims to help subsidize the criminals. Follow the bouncing...
Hello Congress: Meet your poverty-wage food servers August 2015Back in 2008, Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein declared: “There are parts of government that can be run like a business...
Don't TPP on me August 2015Like some Vaudeville shtick, Barack Obama keeps blathering that a huge flaw in his global trade scam doesn’t exist –...
Willie's Reserve July 2015With marijuana prohibition finally ending in states and cities across the land – including full legalization and/or commercialization in Alaska,...
Proud "partners" corporatize our parks July 2015While we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s so-called “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks,...
Insiders aiding online, off-shore loan sharks July 2015When it comes to pursuing their prey, sharks are master maneuverers. Loan sharks, that is. These days, this usurious species...
A thousand cuts July 2015While our presidents praise America’s magnificent national park system, they’re not maintaining them. Bill Clinton, for example, spoke of how...
13 Democratic senators say “Nuts to you.” July 2015By a one-vote margin, the US Senate passed “fast-track” authority, in June to expedite passage of the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Doug Hughes: Protecting democracy from plutocrats July 2015The price of liberty is said to be eternal vigilance. But just being watchful rarely does anything to stop the...
Why a New Jersey puffer fish should not be president July 2015When Mitt Romney was considering who might be his 2012 running mate, each prospect was given a fish-themed code name....
Millions (of dollars) welcome Eric Holder home July 2015Novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote: “You can’t go home again.” But Eric Holder has proven him wrong. Holder, who was...
The latest Son of a Bush has a plan to make you richer July 2015Let’s hear it for Jeb! Bush that is. Maybe the other Republican presidential seekers will stick with their mopey and...
You, too, can be part of Scott Walker's inner circle July 2015If you think that none of today’s presidential candidates care about people like you, check out Republican Scott Walker. The...
Probing the darkness of Ted's head July 2015Once again, it’s time to take a cruise down the twisting roadways, sweeping loops, and hard right turns of Sen.Ted...
