Thursday, May 2, 2024

A depleted military? No, it’s truth that’s depleted…

The real problem we face has nothing to do with military weakness or depletion or under-spending on national security.

Trump’s Attorney General pick introduced first bill to exempt fracking from drinking water rules

Nominated for a federal judge position in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, Sessions did not receive approval 30 years ago due to what congressional members deemed his troubling record on civil rights issues.

Hillary Clinton’s Inaugural Address

Here’s what we’d like to hear her say before Donald Trump takes office — a call for a shadow government that will watchdog everything he and Congress do.

Automation, climate change and Donald Trump: What kind of future are we in for?

Author Peter Frase combines science fiction and Marxist theory to imagine possible outcomes, for better and for worse.

Trump’s treasury pick is a Goldman Sachs banker who foreclosed on tens of thousands

Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s choice to head the US Treasury, has a dark past working with Goldman Sachs and later heading OneWest Bank, which foreclosed the homes of thousands of Americans after 2008.

The mafia state

America’s Snopes-like elites have no external or internal constraints. They are barbarians. We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.

What the robots are doing to the middle class

We will need a guaranteed income, ideally through guaranteed jobs, with the implementation of a financial transaction tax, and with a commitment to alternative energy infrastructure development.

The election from hell has ended; now America’s nightmare begins

The American people are going to be living in a period in this nation’s history that will determine what kind of a nation and society this will be.

The Gettysburg Address, slightly updated

Now we are engaged in a great democratic battle, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can tolerate four years of Trumpery.