Where Does Inequality Come From?
The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon. The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or … Read more
TPP
A Tale of Two Pipes in North Dakota
In North Dakota, it’s the Native American ceremonial pipe vs the bruising financial power of a giant oil pipeline company. In bad movies (and bad history alike), the … Read more
TPP: How Corporate Bamboozlers Intend to Widen Inequality in America
The TPP is written specifically to sanction and increase the robbery of the many by the world’s moneyed few. The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers … Read more
‘We Are Writing the Rules’ with TPP, says Obama. Who’s ‘We’?
The push for the TPP is like Kabuki theater The negotiations and the sales push behind Washington’s latest (and biggest) “free trade” agreement amounts to Kabuki theater. What … Read more
TP’ing the TPP
The TPP: Travesty or equalizer? Awfully fun to watch the different branches of government quiver like Aspen trees in a force 5 tornado arguing the pros and cons … Read more
TPP Is Not a Trade Fight — It’s a Fight for Democracy
TPP was supposed to be a done deal. Except for one unforeseen obstacle: the American people! White House spokesperson Josh Earnest dismissed it as a procedural snafu, and … Read more
Republicans Condemn ‘Hitler’ Obama, Hand Him More Power
‘It’s never tyranny when the tyrant does what you want,’ Mitch McConnell said, referring to Obama. WASHINGTON, DC – Republican congressional leaders and their corporate masters gleefully rubbed … Read more
Obama’s Ugly Show of Presidential Petulance
When the going got tough, Barack Obama got in a huff, and then he got gruff. President Obama has worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP … Read more
TPP Includes a Corporate Cluster Bomb to Obliterate our People’s Sovereignty
The TPP’s “Investor-State Dispute Settlements” are an attack on every nation’s sovereignty. The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also very unhappy with … Read more
TPP: A Corporate Coup d’Etat
What? You haven’t heard of the TPP? When I was a tyke, Momma warned me not to eat anything unless I knew where it came from. That advice … Read more
