Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

If You Liked the Bush Economy, You’ll Love Trump’s Economy

Trump, like Bush, will attempt to grow the economy by giving corporations and upper class lower taxes.

Yuge Trickle-Down Economics

Trickle-down economics has proven itself a cruel hoax.

Forget Polls, Transient Gaffes, Health-gate or Gaseous Sputters — Laurels Go...

About government I doubt Trump knows what he doesn’t know or even what he believes in, if anything. If it becomes clear that Trump doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, how will undecideds begin to imagine his presidency? That double negative leaves Trumpism high and dry. The Trump circus could well achieve what few observers thought possible: make Hillary Clinton appear more trustworthy, if not presidential. Trump craziness, augmented by serial campaign malpractice, has managed to spotlight a suspect, compromised Democrat as more acceptable than she deserves On such matters elections are decided.

Is Trump an Aberration?

The Dark History of the “Nation of Immigrants”

Moderation in Pursuit of Truth Is the Media’s Vice

But neither NBC News nor The New York Times public editor knows it.

Fooled Again

We have once more been baited and hooked by the corporate elites who look upon the electorate as malleable and disposable.

Welcome to Your Delusional Democracy

Better to choose to make American democracy great again by standing up to a corrupt system.

Greasing the Outstretched Palms of the Candidates

Two reports underline the suffocating influence of corporate America on politics and the tricks banks play on taxpayers.

Matt Lauer Ignores Trump’s Lies

NBC host didn’t challenge Trump’s false claims about Iraq and Libya.

NBC’s Presidential Forum Continued the Shameful Corporate Coverage of the Great...

It was a low, wretched performance, by the network and both candidates, full of fluff and posturing and Alice in Wonderland statements of policy along with an almost complete derogation of authority by the anchors.

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
A grocery store aisle. Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

AFL-CIO report warns digital shelf labels could cost retail workers billions in wages

Maryland and New Jersey have already moved to restrict the technology, betting its pricing infrastructure poses as much risk to shoppers as to store staff.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.