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"The Donald Show"

June 2015

“Wow,” exclaimed a beaming Donald Trump as he stepped onstage, basking in the cheers of a throng attending his launch... Read more...

The isolated splendor of the superrich

June 2015

Rich people tend to live behind high walls with guarded gates. Then there are the über-rich. They don’t need walls... Read more...

A letter carrier's special delivery to Congress

June 2015

Neither rain, sleet, nor snow – nor even the likelihood that he’d be killed – could stop this letter carrier... Read more...

Trump tries to put his brand on GOP

June 2015

Oh, joy! Oh, goody! Oh, happy day! If you love the loopy side of American politics, your dream of some... Read more...

Memo to Obama: Corporate elites are not "America"

June 2015

President Obama is miffed that nearly all of his fellow Democrats in the US House recently refused to follow him... Read more...

Jeb launches "Pickett's Charge" campaign

June 2015

A funny thing happened to Jeb Bush on his way to the White House. He was rolling assuredly toward his... Read more...

The legalized immorality of Big Pharma

June 2015

Al Capone, the infamous mob boss and bootlegger in Chicagoland during the 1920s, always maintained that he was just a... Read more...

Debt buyers bury hard-hit consumers in lies

June 2015

Whenever a corporation issues a statement declaring that it is committed to “treating consumers fairly and with respect,” chances are... Read more...

Peeking behind Walmart's promise to invest in American jobs

June 2015

Great news: Walmart is investing in American jobs! It says so right here in a colorful, full-page ad showing a... Read more...

Corporate-media symbiosis

June 2015

One reason corporations get away with running roughshod over us is that America’s mass market media has been thoroughly corporatized... Read more...

Stop Postal executives from destroying our Postal Service

June 2015

When a big-name retailer finds its sales in a slow downward spiral, the geniuses in the executive suite often try... Read more...

Why not televise the widening wealth gap?

June 2015

The debilitating spread of inequality between the superrich 1-percenters and America’s downwardly mobile majority is of huge economic, political, and... Read more...

The real scandal in Denny Hastert's life

June 2015

Washington’s gossip mill is spinning furiously over the recent revelations about Dennis Hastert’s long hidden sexual molestation scandal. But what... Read more...

Hello Congress: Meet your poverty-wage food servers

June 2015

Back in 2008, Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein declared: “There are parts of government that can be run like a business... Read more...

The immoral core of Denny Hastert

June 2015

Washington’s establishment of politicos, lobbyists, and media sparklies are shocked – shocked to its very core! – by Dennis Hastert’s... Read more...

Feingold to Snowden to Paul: Curtailing the Patriot Act

June 2015

Let us now praise an odd bedfellow threesome: One Democratic ex-senator, an American citizen in exile, and a current Republican... Read more...

Join the spreading rebellion against the Big Money political game

June 2015

I think we can all agree that news stories about the ever-rising flood of big money in politics do not... Read more...

You, too, can be part of Scott Walker's inner circle

June 2015

If you think that none of today’s presidential candidates care about people like you, check out Republican Scott Walker. The... Read more...

Doug Hughes: Protecting democracy from plutocrats

June 2015

The price of liberty is said to be eternal vigilance. But just being watchful rarely does anything to stop the... Read more...

Banksters: A story of crime and punishment

June 2015

Big story from that razzle-dazzle place called “El Casino Grande” – otherwise known as Wall Street. Four massive financial conglomerates –JPMorgan... Read more...

Far from "liberalizing" global policies, TPP is corporatizing them

June 2015

Words can be discombobulating when people twist them to fit concepts that are the exact opposite of what the word... Read more...

Hotel giants trying to peddle plastic "authenticity"

May 2015

As everyone who travels a lot soon learns, when you stay in the hotels of the big chains, it’s easy... Read more...

2016 presidential candidates address inequality (sort of)

May 2015

At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of... Read more...

Don't TPP on me

May 2015

Like some Vaudeville shtick, Barack Obama keeps blathering that a huge flaw in his global trade scam doesn’t exist –... Read more...

The fountain-pen economy

May 2015

Even the word “greed” is not negative enough to characterize the all-out assault on workers by today’s corporate elite. From... Read more...