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Get your corporate mistletoe off our turkey
It's Christmastime, everybody. A week before Thanksgiving. This year it began before the jack-o'-lanterns decomposed and the Elsa costumes were hung away. Every year Christmas creep begins earlier and...
View ArticleHouse Votes 378 to 46 to Give Corporate America a Big Christmas Present
Today, the House voted to give corporate America a big Christmas present: lots and lots of tax breaks.Although many Democrats have been pushing for a two-year tax extender package, the House decided to...
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Bernie Sanders Exposes 18 Top Corporate Tax Dodgers
Many folks around the country are just discovering the new Democratic Presidential Candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). They are learning Sanders has been on an incredibly bold mission to...
View ArticleSuper Stupid Sunday Spectacle
If you want to see a microcosm of the decay in American society and culture, you need look no further than today's Super Bowl! From the inane three hour Pre game show to the display of military might...
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Cartoon: Changing times in America
Click image to enlarge.Fighting mainstream social progress has never ultimately proven to be a good look, and it's bad for business to look a fool. Thus, one of the most reliable events following...
View ArticleBernie Sanders calls for ending the Exploitation of the Prison Labor
I've wondered what Senator Sanders was talking about, ever since I heard him say this:Bernie Sanders -- facebook.comIt is morally repugnant and a national tragedy that we have privatized prisons all...
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3 Blockbuster Supreme Court Cases that Could Spell Catastrophe for Workers...
Corporate America has been tireless in trying to sharply limit, or simply eliminate, all class action lawsuits. When corporations break the law by doing things such as not paying workers for time they...
View ArticleOur toilet paper is getting smaller
A friend of mine back in January linked me a story about how toilet paper is getting smaller. I think he did this in the hopes I’d write a story about it.I did not.I hadn’t noticed. It wasn’t a...
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Spotify Hits a Sour Note with Secretive Fine Print
On a normal day, a typical conversation about Spotify might be centered on a debate over what kind of oddball would create a playlist with a metal song by the Deftones next to a modern classical piece...
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Amid falling profits, Monsanto announces big layoffs
Are their profits going down simply because of the market? Monsanto Co., agricultural giant, will be eliminating 2,900 jobs. They are saying that this is a part of their cost reductions and falling...
View ArticleSeven Biggest Cheers at Bernie Sanders Rally in Cleveland (video clips)
On Monday night, a crowd of some 7000 packed into the Cleveland State University arena to see, hear and rally for Bernie Sanders, as he pursues the United States presidency. Sanders spoke for 80...
View ArticleHillary Clinton and Wall Street/Corporate America (1): "Cut it Out" is...
I have been reading about these rehashed diaries on how Hillary is so evil that she’s ‘in bed with Wall Street and Corporate America.’ I decided to compile snippets and reasons why Hillary has been...
View ArticleMy own Trump-like moment
This isn’t about Donald Trump. Or, not so much about him as about a particular kind of man.Listening to those vile, reprehensible, evil comments last night actually, for the first time in my life,...
View ArticleThe Fascist Hero: Gabriele D'Annunzio
D'annunzio was called Il Duce before Mussolini was. I’m cross-posting this text, in shortened form, from my own blog Politraction. I’m interested in looking back at various incarnations of Fascism and...
View ArticleThe 'black ceiling' means that black women still aren't getting top positions...
Despite advancing in education to become one of the nation’s most educated groups, black women continue to face barriers to obtaining chief executive positions in corporate America. While there are...
View ArticleThe Struggle for the "Soul" of the Democratic Party
December 14, 2017Introduction:Dear Citizens, Elected Officials, and Democratic Party Officers:What follows below, in two parts, is an essay of criticism and hope, about the deepest commitments of the...
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I am still upset ABOUT Anthony Bourdain
I have had a hard time watching Anthony Bourdain’s award-winning show “Parts Unknown” since his death because there is an added slickness and self-aggrandizement to these latest episodes, with each...
View ArticlePG&E’s Negligence A Much Bigger To Threat to Climate Than Its’ Bankruptcy
Wildfires threaten not only our safety but also our climate. This summer, much of northern California has been blanketed with an ashy haze that shrouds normally visible peaks from Mount Shasta to...
View ArticleDear Sen Coons->Walmart enforces new policy prohibiting open carry =...
Dear Senator Coons,In his post-debate interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke boldly declared “The NRA is no match for @MomsDemand and @AMarch4OurLives.”xâÂÂThe NRA...
View ArticleBiden tells CEOs 'My job is to help people' and by 'people,' he doesn't mean...
President Joe Biden met with CEOs of some of the nation's biggest companies to gain their support for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan currently in the works in Congress. Biden struck the...
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