Greed is Immoral. Health Care Greed is Abominable
Ranking high among the profiteers of insatiable health care greed in America today, you’ll find the private nursing home industry. America has endured a long panorama of corporate … Read more
Jim Hightower
Don’t Buy Coca-Cola Plastic Promise
It’s only an attempt to squirm out of a promise to curtail the contamination of our planet with Coca-Cola plastic waste. Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King was … Read more
A Kakistocracy Takes Over Immigration Policy
Trumpers who had cheered his draconian immigration policy ideas are stunned – stunned! – that he actually meant what he ranted about. Social media has been lighting up … Read more
Trump’s Plan to Feed the Greed of Corporate Elites
Trump loyalists will be hired as friendly “regulators” of corporate hucksterism, in order to feed the greed of said loyalists. Howard Lutnick wants to have his cake and … Read more
How Trump’s Made-in-America Scam Still Means Made-in-China
Made-in-China: Trump says he’ll force companies to move back to the USA. They’re moving, but just not here. Wow! Who says election promises don’t produce real change? Candidate … Read more
The Shame of TD Bank’s Jolly Bankers
Investigative digger Judd Legum reports that TD Bank has profited from a scheme to launder millions in drug money from criminal networks. Woody Guthrie satirized Depression-era bankers who … Read more
Lilly Ledbetter Fought the Bastards – And Won for All of Us
Nearly all social progress in our country has been spurred by unheralded “nobodies” like Lilly Ledbetter. Forget the cartoonish “Great Man” version of American history. Nearly all social … Read more
Sordid Story: Corporate Executives Get Self-Gratification from M&As
S&M is generally frowned on in polite society, but what should we make of the sordid story of M&As? Sadism and masochism (abbreviated as S&M) are generally frowned … Read more
To Get Good Local News, Try Do-It-Yourself Journalism
Advance true media democracy by creating your own local, noncorporate do-it-yourself newspaper. Perhaps you’ve noticed from the shrinkage (or total elimination) of your local newspaper that this source … Read more
School Lunch, Christian Nationalism and Jesus
The school lunch subsidy runs as low as 42 cents a meal, so it’s far cheaper, fairer and more Christian simply to offer it to all. An iconic … Read more
