Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers September 2021Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really – what businesses would they...
Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System September 2021When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way...
Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? September 2021Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the...
How About an Award for Sleaziest Corporate Profiteering? September 2021We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary...
Hey Washington: Follow The People September 2021“Those in the know,” say that We the People should forget any progressive fantasy that – at long last –...
Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics September 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t...
Where’s the “Dignity of Work” When Work Kills Workers? September 2021Corporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work. Of course, that’s “dignity”...
Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs September 2021Here’s a hot topic for Labor Day: Heat. It’s been a hell of a hot summer, exploding the top off...
Making Work Work for Workers September 2021As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the...
What’s the “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing? August 2021Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact...
Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights? August 2021At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s...
Repair Your Own Products? Corporations Say No! August 2021America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s...
Working From Home – While Your Boss Watches You on Video August 2021If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about...
Beware of “Spot,” the $75,000 Wonder Dog August 2021Tick-tick-tick… each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil...
To fix the Labor Shortage, Start With the Wage Shortage August 2021At a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People...
Should “Workforce” mean forcing workers to take crappy jobs? August 2021A recent headline blared: “Labor shortages end when wages rise.” Gosh, Captain Obvious, what an amazing discovery! Someone notify the...
There’s Rich, Ugly Rich, and Jeff Bezos August 2021I cheered recently when the richest man on Earth had himself rocketed into space. But then he came back down....
How Pathetic is Jeff “Space Boy” Bezos? August 2021When I was just a tyke, cowboy actors were marketed as role models for little backyard cowpokes like me, and...
A Phoenix is Rising July 2021Our local newspapers are being merged, purged, shrunk, shut down, and looted by Wall Street profiteers – yet there’s good...
The Oracle Speaks July 2021Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers, and he specialized in squeezing out competitors...
How the corporate plutocracy works July 2021An old political truism notes that, “Where there’s a will, there are 1,000 won’ts.” And what a hurricane of won’ts...
Is America big enough to Go Big again? July 2021It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people...
Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity July 2021Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because… well,...
The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery July 2021Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are...
Is Your Governor Part Of The GOP’s Border Stunt? July 2021Herd immunity is important in stopping deadly viruses, but in politics the herd instinct can send a whole species over...
