Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: middle class

National (in)security

What a Trump presidency really means for Americans at the edge.

How 90% of American households lost an average of $17,000 in...

The obscene transfer of wealth and income to the plutocrats won't end until we demand a return to the Commons, where we work as a society rather than allow predatory plutocratic individuals to control us.

How American life continued to deteriorate in 2016

We're living in an era of suicide in America, in parallel with our era of inequality.

How Americans became poor

If we want to create a vibrant middle class, we have to abandon slogans and simplistic solutions and understand the bigger picture.

It can‘t happen here?

This Neo-Con globalization has destroyed what the politicians from both empire political parties like to label ‘The Middle Class.’

What the robots are doing to the middle class

We will need a guaranteed income, ideally through guaranteed jobs, with the implementation of a financial transaction tax, and with a commitment to alternative energy infrastructure development.

How a disappearing and deluded middle class awaits the new president

Americans deluded by capitalist promises need to learn about progressive policies that would truly help them.

Five Conspirators in the Eradication of the Middle Class

Meet the kingpins, the enforcers, the illusionists, the con men, and the hitmen that are all working together to eradicate the middle class.

Disposable Americans: The Numbers are Growing

What's astonishing is the disregard that many of the super-rich have for struggling Americans.

What’s Killing the American Middle Class?

“We know what, and who, is killing the middle class. It’s time to stop those forces in their tracks, take back our democracy, and create a middle class that’s more vibrant and inclusive than ever.”

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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.
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.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
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.