Staffing Up for Corruption
There was a new category of staffing added to Big Money in politics. Campaigns are now hiring “donor maintenance managers” as personal concierges to millionaire supporters—another example of plutocratic corruption of our democratic elections.
Trump’s big buyback bamboozle
We’re just going to have more buybacks and more inequality.
Bernie’s heart. And ours.
Bernie has a huge and eternally healthy heart, filled with the lifeblood of empathy and dedication. In essence, that’s what the Bernie 2020 campaign is all about.
An open letter to the Green Party about 2020 election strategy
The nine early signers believe the letter can plausibly inspire and facilitate a public, reasoned, discussion of Green Party election policy and that such a discussion might in turn fundamentally influence the 2020 election outcome.
Usable madness
Usable lying and other well-intended “adjustments” of the truth have opened up the door for many further troubling innovations . . .
Decades later, the US government called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘nuclear tests’
U.S. military strategists were eager “to use the bomb first where its effects would not only be politically effective, but also technically measurable.”
Uncle Sam wants… your social security check
A Texas Republican, who's ready to retire with a nice pension, wants to cut Social Security benefits for everyone else by up to 69 percent.
What happened to all those foreclosed houses?
Wall Street bought them – and is now leasing them out and driving up rents.
What is the major issue in the 2020 election?
"Do the wealthy contend that their excess wealth is needed by the economy?"
Perhaps you’ve heard …
The Office of Special Counsel says Kellyanne Conway broke the law by disparaging Democratic candidates for president, both while appearing on T.V. in her official capacity as an adviser to the president and on her Twitter feed.