Corporate mega-mergers keep being announced with great hoopla, but - as we've learned from promises made by merging airlines, banks, drugmakers, etc. – most are likely to deliver less than nothing. Take 2015's ... Read more...

Here's a recipe for you: Chop up some Oscar Mayer wieners, stir in Heinz ketchup, blend with Cool Whip and Maxwell House Coffee, sprinkle Planters peanuts over the mixture, add A-1 Steak Sauce, then top it with... Read more...

Like most politicians, corporate executives never do anything wrong. If anything wrong does "happen," it's always someone else's fault. That's been the gutless ploy of Kroger supermarket honchos who recently... Read more...

Do you shop at a Kroger supermarket? Or maybe at Ralph's, Fred Meyer, King Sooper's, or... well, never mind, all of these and more are part of the vast Kroger fiefdom of 2,759 grocery stores spanning the US, pl... Read more...

As George Bernard Shaw noted, "You don't make progress by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself." That certainly has been true of progressives in our country. It has been au... Read more...

When did We The People vote to outlaw peaceful public protest against corporate profiteers who're running roughshod over our values, livelihoods, environment, and... well, our lives? Answer: Never. Yet, behi... Read more...

The awful truth about the corporate and governmental power elites in our democratic society is that they really don't like democracy at all. They prefer to rule by buying lawmakers, hiring lobbyists, running Or... Read more...

For millions of people around the globe – especially young people – the pressing issue of our time is this: The world is on fire! On fire with climate change, creating a new and intensifying norm of deadly weat... Read more...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote of being leery of a fast-talking huckster who visited his home: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons," Emerson exclaimed. Likewise, today's work... Read more...

Great news, people! We have a new ally in our historic battle against corporate plutocracy: Corporate plutocrats. Yes, we've now been joined by the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Walmart, Amazon, and nearly 200 oth... Read more...

While the Trumpistas are presently plowing a multibillion-dollar subsidy into big grain farms – they're using a tangle of federal red tape in a mingy effort to deny a meager level of food assistance to millions... Read more...

Donald Trump Loooooves farmers. We know this because he says so. "Farmers, I LOVE YOU!" he declared in December. But he's been "loving" them to death, with policies that are causing farm prices to tumble, mi... Read more...

As an old saying puts it, "Where there's a will – there are a thousand won'ts." Sure enough, here come the won'ts, opposing the public's demand for bold action to stop inequality. The corporate powers are fr... Read more...

While Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Latinos headed north from Central America, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn't mention. Thes... Read more...

You probably haven't heard about it, but there's another mass migration coming across the US-Mexico border. However, these are not Central American families fleeing horrific conditions back home - only to be se... Read more...