Back when Donald Trump was a washed-up businessman, with a checkered history of bankruptcies, racism and failed real estate projects, it was Jeff Zucker, then the president of NBC Entertainment, who decided to resurrect…
Wednesday WayBack: Press Freedom ——— End To The Allusion
Entering A New Reality Upon the ruling by U.K.'s High Court to allow the extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questions about a free press in the United States of America…
America Has Come To A Fork In The Road. Will The Supreme Court Choose The Path That Saves Or Ruins The Democracy
The sitting justices face a once-in-a-lifetime crisis of legitimacy that could determine the future of the US Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Author: Gary Gerstle Common sense suggests that America ought to…
Shrinking Into Nothingness
In an opinion piece on Tuesday at The Guardian, Robert Reich poses a familiar, and some may say inevitable, Democratic Party policy outcome: Is Biden's entire agenda about to shrink into nothingness? While Dr.…
Labor Day. Good News Bad News
America celebrates Labor Day – but are US workers winning? Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, says increased worker bargaining power could last longer-term. Dube says that numerous factors have…
Friday Awake In The Nightmare
Close Your Eyes And See After 20 years, over $2 trillion spent, mountains of dead. What was it all for? On 1 October 2001, three weeks after the 9/11 attacks and six days…
Truth Is Never Easy, In Politics
Wealth Supremacists And White Supremacists. United In Anti-Democracy, Backed By SCOTUS ˜ A Sunday Read That Will Make You Crap Your Pants ˜ Why isn’t Joe Biden doing all he can to protect American…
George Floyd: RIP Year One
“George Floyd’s murder felt like everything was the same and nothing was the same”. Miski Noor, an activist in Minneapolis. (more…)
May Day USA 2020
Essential workers, 'not sacrificial workers' On Tuesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act ordering meat processing/packing plants to stay open and for those plants that have already closed due…
Shit Ya Can’t Make Up: Death & Taxes Edition
Trump’s Pick For Fed Seat Owes $75,000 in Taxes: IRS Claim. The Guardian newspaper is reporting that “a claim for the debt was filed against (Stephen) Moore by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in…