Why Isn’t Everyone In Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation?
Wall Street Insiders who trade on confidential information unavailable to small investors don’t improve the productivity of financial markets. They just rig the game for themselves.
High Corruption: Hillary Clinton Does the Hindu Kush
The Queen of Chaos has been roundly criticized for her bellicose involvement as Secretary of State in Iraq, Libya, Honduras and elsewhere, generally taking “very little action to bring about peace.”
Paying For Free Public Education
Should Bernie propose a “Let's Give Back To Our Country” program to help pay for universal free tuition?
Hillary’s Dance: The Two-Faced Hypocritical 12-Step
Given Hillary's past deceits and reversals, it's easy to see why she doesn't inspire trust among the American people. Is Hillary dancing around reality?
Revolution Is in the Air
“We will have to do this together. No one will do it for us. And as the numbers in the streets swell the corruption of our political system becomes ever more apparent.”
Voting With Their Stone-Age Brains
Historian Rick Shenkman tells Bill Moyers that it's the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.
On Israel, Sanders Is Right (And Clinton Knows It)
"With these words Bernie made a bit of history, and earned a lot of respect."
How to Fight the Big Banks and Help the Social Security Administration All in...
If Bernie Sanders wants to stick it to the Big Banks, having the SSA start its own credit card department would be one way to go.
Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Nuclear-Arms Train Wreck
The U.S. nuclear arsenal, and all the expense, nuclear waste and immense danger it continuously poses, has received almost no attention in the U.S. presidential debates.
Food for Thought
Waste is a pretty bad thing – particularly in these days when we are all noticing that the price of food is increasing.