MONSANTO COMES A CROPPER May 2010As an old TV ad used to say: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Monsanto corporation, however, still has...
PULLING THE CURTAIN ON THE FED May 2010Surely I’m dreaming. This is beyond a fantasy. It’s got to be a hallucination. I don’t know whether to weep,...
LET'S GIVE GOOD GOVERNMENT A TRY May 2010If you’re an aficionado of ironic justice, try this morsel: On the day that BP’s Gulf oil rig blew up,...
SOME SENATE DEMOCRATS STIFFEN THEIR SPINES May 2010Whoa, what’s this? A bold stand by Senate Democrats? Apparently, someone spiked the water pitchers in the Democratic caucus with...
THE MEDIA'S "BUSINESS MODEL" FOR CEO PAY May 2010Question: In the exotic world of executive suite excess, which gaggle of bosses managed to outgun Wall Street bankers in...
THE BIGGEST BANK HEIST YOU NEVER HEARD ABOUT May 2010Has your banker stopped by to thank you yet? Thanks are due, of course, for your share of the $700-billion...
WE'VE BEEN SLICKED BY BIG OIL May 2010Suddenly, we’re re-learning the painful lesson that when technological solutions combine with corporate promises, we often get a toxic mix....
IS BP'S GUSHING GULF OIL DISASTER A HOLY MESS? May 2010Luckily, with yet another ecological catastrophe hitting our country, we have national analysts with the expertise, insight, and calm reasoning...
ADDING TOXIC CHEMICALS TO A TOXIC OIL SPILL May 2010Let’s say that you have a water well, and a leak from an underground tank at a nearby gasoline station...
WHO WOULD WANT THIS JOB? May 2010Yes, jobs are hard to come by these days, but don’t despair, for here’s a company that’s hiring – if...
GOLDMAN SACHS SHOWS US ITS ABACUS May 2010Doing a public service was the very last thing on the minds of the geniuses at Goldman Sachs who created...
TAX DODGING FOR FUN AND PROFIT May 2010I look at GE, and I think, gee, how does it get away with that? Then I remember, oh yeah...
SCOLDING WALL STREET WON'T STOP THE GREED May 2010President Obama marched boldly up to Wall Street and scolded those narcissistic banksters who crashed our economy and looted our...
A NEW OUTBURST OF ARIZONA NUTTINESS May 2010Well, I think it’s unfair to John Boehner. He’s the Republican leader in the US House who’s known as “Suntan...
MAYBE WE COULD FORM A BEER PARTY April 2010Would you have tea with me? I’m talking to you authentic tea bag folks – those who are not corporate-funded,...
ANOTHER CORPORATE PATH FOR BUYING OUR GOVERNMENT April 2010Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t...
A GOOD BANKING REFORM HAS GONE BAD April 2010They roll into Washington from the West, the North, the South – good ideas to make our national policies better,...
BUYING AMERICA – WITH OUR DOLLARS April 2010Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers? Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth...
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS IN OUR ELECTIONS? April 2010Having decreed that Corporations have a free speech “right ” to spend unlimited sums from their massive corporate treasuries to...
TREATING AIRLINE PASSENGERS AS BULK CARGO April 2010Is it still April Fools’ Day? Is there not even a sliver of sanity left in the executive suites of...
WHICH MITCH DO YOU BELIEVE? April 2010As Lily Tomlin has said, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” She could’ve been...
KILLING THE COMPETITION April 2010If you ever wonder what happened to America’s good ol’ free enterprise, can-do, competitive spirit – look to the airlines....
AMERICA NEEDS A POPULIST ON THE COURT April 2010Good grief, here we go again! When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he was stepping down from...
CORPORATE MURDER? April 2010A mass murder has taken place in another American workplace, taking 29 lives. The authorities know who did it, so...
NADER'S NOVEL IDEA April 2010Okay, maybe you’re one who still stews about Ralph Nader’s presidential campaigns – but give the guy credit for his...
