Goons in Gucci
Bands of nouveau corporate royalists are today’s Goons in Gucci In the fierce labor wars of the last century, industrial barons employed Pinkertons and other goons to bloody … Read more
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Trump’s New War
Get ready, America — here we go… to war! This kind of war is an affront to the values that most of us hold dear, and this war … Read more
Examining the Kochtopus
The super-rich Koch brothers want to supplant America’s will of The People with their own plutocracy. The multibillionaire Charles and David Koch brothers want nothing less than to … Read more
A Regime of Austerity Versus the Common Good
Today’s Powers That Be are wrongly forcing a regime of austerity on our nation. Sometimes, it’s useful to state the obvious. Here’s a fact, for example, that we … Read more
Thieves in the Suites
Workplace exploitation is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but today’s corporate elites use technology, devious work schedules, and lobbyists to extract more work from employees … Read more
Populism: Everybody Does Better When Everybody Does Better
Our nation’s true political spectrum is not right to left, but top to bottom, and Populism is about reducing the distance between the two. My father, W.F. “High” … Read more
The Zeitgeist, It Is A-Changing: Grassroots Progressive Victories Are Mounting
Grassroots progressive wins are changing the defining spirit of our times. Last year’s grassroots progressive runs for office laid to rest much of the Democratic Party’s orthodoxy about … Read more
What Word Will the Trump Mob Kill Next?
The word “Fact” was the first to go. Breaking news: Trump & Company are a murderous mob! From the start of his White House tenure, the Trumpsters have … Read more
Exposing Our ‘Populist’ President as a Naked Plutocrat
As a lifelong con-man, our plutocrat president* reflexively uses an extra dose of bluster. Why does Donald Trump constantly preface his outlandish lies with such phrases as: “To … Read more
Why the American Majority Despises Trump’s Washington
Now that he’s in Washington DC, is Trump really “draining the swamp”? Donald Trump, never lacking in self-esteem, bragged in 2016: “I know words — I have the … Read more
