BUYING AMERICA – WITH OUR DOLLARS March 2010Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers? Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth...
THE KARZAI-IZATION OF AFGHANISTAN March 2010Isn’t it great that America is standing so forcefully for fundamental principles of democracy around the world? We’re standing side...
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS IN OUR ELECTIONS? March 2010Having decreed that Corporations have a free speech “right ” to spend unlimited sums from their massive corporate treasuries to...
NEEDED: VIAGRA FOR BACKBONES March 2010What the White House needs is a good alchemist. Not a magician who can turn lead into gold, but a...
TOYOTA'S FRIENDS March 2010Poor Toyota. Because of an explosion of deadly safety glitches in its cars, the Japanese auto giant is getting pounded...
THE SUPREME COURT’S CORPORATE WONDERLAND February 2010As you’ve probably heard, corporations are now “people.” While these inanimate paper constructs have no brain, heart, or soul, five...
LAWMAKERS DANCE WITH THE DEVIL February 2010If you choose to dance with the devil, never flatter yourself that you’re in the the lead. This is a...
BIG PHARMA DIVORCES BILLY TAUZIN February 2010Some marriages are made in heaven, some in hell. The matrimony of Billy Tauzin and Big Pharma was definitely hellish...
GREEDHEAD TROPHY UP FOR GRABS February 2010America’s sports writers had all but ceded the coveted “Corporate Greedhead Trophy” to the Wall Street Barons this year but...
THE PEOPLE SPEAK, CONGRESS FIDDLES February 2010Who says Americans can’t find agreement on anything? All it took to bring us together in determined unity was that...
SELLING POLITICAL LOVE TO WALL STREET February 2010Poor Wall Street bankers. They can’t find a friendly port in the unrelenting storm of public outrage at their ongoing...
HELP CURE SALLIE MAE'S SUGAR ADDICTION February 2010Sallie Mae is not one of those girls who’re made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, she is...
WALL STREET'S SOLIDARITY WITH AVERAGE JOES February 2010The bonus-boys of Wall Street have finally shown that they “get it” – and I’m sure you appreciate their new-found...
PALIN IS READY FOR THE NATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE February 2010It went unacknowledged by the mass media, but Sarah Palin recently made a major contribution to the public good. By...
WHAT HAPPENED TO WALL STREET REFORM? February 2010Gosh, has it been two years already? Time sure flies when you’re dealing with a crisis. It seems like only...
PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES WITH CORPORATE WELFARE February 2010One thing that governors and mayors absolutely love to do is to win a prize in a game called, “Corporate...
GETTING TO KNOW THE RIGHT WING February 2010Time for another edition of the new game that’s sweeping the nation: “Who’s That Right Winger?” An interconnected network of...
CORPORATIONS WANT "THE LION'S SHARE" February 2010President Obama was right on target during his state of the union speech, when he upbraided the Supreme Court for...
CORPORATE MONEY FUNDS RIGHT-WING ATTACK ON SENATOR'S OFFICE February 2010As Sir Walter Scott warned two centuries ago: “Oh! What a tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to...
THE LASTING SPIRIT OF HOWARD ZINN February 2010One of the best tombstones ever is said to include the last words of a young, out-gunned gunslinger in Arizona:...
FLYING CASH REGISTERS February 2010Get ready for yet another assault of crass commercialism – this one way up at 35,000 feet in the friendly...
HOOTING AT FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS February 2010American politics is a hoot! Where else can raw ignorance rise to such high places – and then flaunt itself...
AGRIBUSINESS PROFITS, MUTANT GERMS… AND US February 2010America is under assault. From coast to coast, we are being invaded by horrific, body-consuming mutants that are already destroying...
A GOP LEADER'S ECONOMIC PLAN February 2010Those who say that Republican congress critters are just a gaggle of naysaying boneheads with no economic plan of their...
PRICING "FREE SPEECH" OUT OF OUR REACH February 2010Let us now praise the Supreme Five! I refer to the five Supreme Court justices who looked all around our...
