Saturday, October 3, 2026

The “People’s Fed” and the Oracles of Jackson Hole

As long as the Fed’s organizational culture is dominated by the financial sector, it cannot reflect the American people’s needs, hopes and values.

Exxon’s Weapons of Mass Confusion on Climate Change

The real power, and our great hope, is in the People's rebellion: marches, civil disobedience, trainings, teach-ins and other actions to pressure leaders to put people and the planet over corporate profiteering.

Trump’s ‘spiritual adviser:’ A match made in wealth gospel heaven

That’s what comes from not attending enough Trump rallies. One misses the most spectacular, if sobering revelations — though nothing to do...

Judgment over time guaranteed: Truth will out, grinding indefensible right-wing lies to smithereens 

Yes, I anticipate criminal Trump indictments, but I am even more certain there will be comprehensive indictments by scores of historians.

A Tale of Two Grandmothers

Mary Anne Grady Flores was wearing a scarf on the day she went to prison—but not for protection from the snow.

Biden should stop payment on US funds to Sisi’s Egypt

They should put a “stop payment” on the U.S. taxpayer-funded check that has enabled Sisi to operate with impunity.

Trump’s bid to transform international relations may succeed

Eliminating bureaucracy and abandoning the world order that the U.S. helped build may allow Trump to recalibrate foreign policy, at the cost of global stability.

The shoddiest NFT grift confirms the carnival barker’s finale

What new, despicable broadside/ Ignites further campaign suicide?

“Doomsday Clock” kept at 90 seconds to midnight for 2024       

As the Doomsday Clock" ticks closer to midnight, global tensions and nuclear threats intensify.

Space Force’s blabbermouth-in-chief

The odds are our commander-in-chief has just given a case of the jitters to the entire defensive—and offensive—apparatus of the nuclear world.