Sunday, October 18, 2026

Three reasons why the super-rich should embrace a 70% tax rate

If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.

His own worst enemy, Trump drowns in his own swamp

Thus does Trump bring down the very doom and gloom, if not carnage, on himself invoked by his own lies and fear-mongering.

Musk’s and Bezos’s great escape

It’s understandable that the super wealthy might wish to escape the gravitational pull of the rest of us. But there’s really no escape.

Hillary to Bernie: You Smear Me When You Tell the Truth

If you accept big money, you know it always comes with strings attached. The more big money you accept, the more strings, until no matter how much you resist, you end up dancing like a puppet on those strings.
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10 Reasons Marco Rubio is no Moderate

Marco Rubio is said to be somewhat moderate, but Robert Reich says differently. Here’s why...

Biden and cluster munitions: ‘In a dark time, the eye begins to see’

President Biden’s decision to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine is shocking to many Americans because it has undermined illusions with no more actual solidity than sand castles before the tide of truth comes in.

With attack on Yemen, the US is shameless: ‘We make the rules, we break...

The United States government is the most powerful and dangerous outlaw nation in the world.

Laboratories of Democracy

Perhaps it's time to for the Democrats' strategic geniuses and the rest of us to pay a bit more attention to state rep/senate races.

War within war: Iraq’s Prime Minister says ‘we don’t want to fight Turkey, but...

Iraq demands that the Turkish troops withdraw from the country, terming them “occupation forces.”

Who’s a bigger threat to democracy—immigrants, or billionaires?

Don’t be distracted by the anti-immigrant rhetoric this election. The real impact on democracy comes from moneyed elites.