Ivanka's Fashion Line Exempted from Trump's Chinese Tariffs (Yes, Really)
Has this contemptible carney family stopped evenbothering to try to appear non-corrupt? Ivanka Trump‘s clothing manufacturing company will be exempt from new proposed tariffs against China.Just like...
View ArticleWho Cares About Justice? (My Latest Challenge to My Republican Neighbors)
This piece has run as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*************************Justice has been called the most important virtue for a society to have. And, since...
View ArticleDan Snyder's $100 million IMAX yacht: taxation and economics
Trump's tax cuts primarily benefit the uber-wealthy.Politicians such as AOC and Elizabeth Warren are using the yacht as ammunition to argue why taxes should be raised on the uber-wealthy.The...
View ArticleWhen GREED KILLS, But Never PAYS.
I generally don’t write two diaries in one day, but I am generally not this angry.We are almost getting used to “paying for baggage” which is an idea that pisses me off more than the lack of legroom....
View ArticleNew Declaration of War
I live in Humboldt County. We’ve had our power shut off twice now, even though we’re not in a fire area. Here are my thoughts:Like all natural monopolies, the People should own the power grid. And...
View ArticleSorry, but money can and does buy happiness these days
All those sayings about how money can’t buy happiness? They’re mostly false.That’s the basic takeaway from a recent study showing that 90% of people earning more than $500,000 a year say they are...
View ArticleMillennials are now being told they must work until they drop dead
For people who only care about the stock market, it might be possible to forget that a little more than 10 years ago, the United States (and most of the world) experienced an economic calamity second...
View ArticlePete Ricketts Believes That The Poor & Middle Class Have It Too Easy
Pete Ricketts announced on May 24 that he is yanking the $300 pandemic unemployment benefit as of June 19. The multi-millionaire governor falsely claimed that the $300 per week of additional pandemic...
View ArticleIndians 101: Outlawing the potlatch in Canada
The First Nations occupying the Pacific Coast area of British Columbia are characterized by their complex social organization which included social stratification. Social stratification, a form of...
View ArticleOligarchy: When Brutal Capitalism Becomes More Important than Democracy
In an oligarchy, the rich can get away with anything and average people who try to stop harms to themselves and their communities get crushed. We’re now there; the question is whether we’ll pull back...
View ArticleThe Shotgun Wedding. The World Before Roe.
I am choosing to republish this diary which I posted last year upon the rapid-fire installation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of The United States. (Thank you, help desk.) My pre-Roe story...
View ArticleIs Greed the Reason We're In Omicron's Cross-hairs?
As the Omicron variant puts us in its cross-hairs, America is still stuck with a predatory health insurance and healthcare system that’s barely up to the task of meeting our nation’s needs. This new...
View ArticleMale LVN gets prison for raping SanCarlos Apache woman patient subjected to...
This male nursefaces about seven more years of incarceration for his crimes against an incapacitatedSan Carlos Apache patient —who was found giving birth to the child of rape before anyone at the...
View ArticleJust ask women why for a bloody change.
This Reproductive Rights Opinion article in the Guardian struck a resonant cordWhy are women ‘failing’ to reproduce? Maybe it’s time to ask them. It's free to read, and I suggest reading the whole...
View ArticleNeoliberal Parasites Now Want Public Libraries as Profit Centers for Wall Street
It happened fifty-six years before Ben Franklin walked out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and told Elizabeth Willing Powel, the wife of Philadelphia’s mayor and one of the most influential women...
View ArticleWorkers of the USA Unite. You have nothing to lose but low pay; You have...
With so many “essential workers” stuck at the bottom of the pay scale, now is the time for an organized, unionized approach — including strikes and walkouts — to start righting these wrongs.I never...
View ArticlePLAY AT WORK
‘The world of play is necessarily one of uncertainty and discovery whereas the ambition of the bureaucrat and the systems-builder is to deal only with foregone conclusions.”Marshall McLuhanWAR AND...
View ArticleCrisis Ahead: the disease if left unchecked that will kill us all
Our collective success is killing us. We, homo sapiens, may be evolutionarily the most successful species on earth. Dr. Paul Erlich warned us in “The Population Bomb” in 1970 with predictions of...
View ArticleLeland Olds on Imperialism and the Fourth of July
According to his obituary, published in the New York Times on August 5, 1960, economist Leland Olds was a New Deal champion of the consumer and government regulation of public utilities including the...
View ArticleHomeless to Hospital to Homeless to Dead
I was working on my new book when the phone rang. One of the guys from the shelter where I was operations manager called to tell me that a fella I knew and cared about had died.Jeff Johnson made quite...
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Capitalism, chains you can believe in!
Capitalism, chains you can believe in!I recently saw an idiot's car in a walmart parking lot. I could tell it belonged to an idiot because it had a “Socialism. Chains you can believe in!” bumper...
View ArticleIndians 101: Montana gold and Indians, 1862-1868
Throughout the world, gold has been a symbol of wealth and power. It has been revered, worshiped, and sought after for thousands of years. Gold was among the earliest metals used by humans. It is...
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Corporate Media, Oligarchy and the Political Implications in the War Against...
This was a battle that was often lost for a time in the 60s and 70s by the upper classes. Enough was getting through to the public despite the built-in media biases that have always existed. Fifty...
View ArticleDangerous, destructive libertarian freedom
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”Peter Thiel, Pay-Pal Co-founderI want to thank Peter Thiel for his ruthlessly arrogant confession of the rightwing plutocrats’ goals....
View ArticleMaternal Mortality, Abortion, and Race: A Dangerous Trifecta
Much has been written in the literature of public health about America’s shocking maternal mortality rate. Occasionally media reports the alarming rate when there is a hook. Advocates concerned with...
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Understanding the Roots of Fascism and What Spurs on Positive Change
ReichMany years ago, in Wilhelm Reich’s pre-Hitler early 1930s masterpiece work “The Mass Psychology of Fascism”, he pointed out that Hitler (who had not yet taken state power) himself “was of no real...
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Epic Lies on Real Poverty Levels and Fighting Crime by Fighting Poverty
I thought I’d start by shooting down our government’s dollar figures for how many Americans are living under poverty. One need not be a financial genius to figure out how badly the number of poor...
View ArticleWhat the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like
Back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our government because it was “the problem,” many of us who strongly opposed him wondered what the final stage of...
View ArticleThe workplace revolution continues
“For over 50 years management has tried to teach workers that they should feel lucky to have a job. For the next 50 years we need to teach management they should feel lucky to have our work.”Sara...
View ArticleHere we go again, being asked to pity the people struggling along on $400,000...
It’s back: the old “but what about the families struggling to get by on $400,000?” storyline. This time we get a slightly more sophisticated version of the trope courtesy of The Washington Post’s Megan...
View ArticlePrivate Equity and the Looting of America
The NY Times has an excellent Op/Ed piece on the scourge of private equity by Brendan Ballou. When I started out in banking in New York in the 1980s there were only a handful of PE firms (called...
View ArticleSome Thoughts On The Patriarchy
A confluence of three separate memes impinging on my subconscious has got me thinking about the patriarchy. The first was an essay written by Emma Goldman on Trafficking and Women, published in 1910 in...
View ArticleCNBC "Top States for Business" ranks worst states for workers, they are...
CNBC has an ongoing series on “Best States”— best states for business, best states to live and work in, etc. Yesterday they published here their worst states to live and work in. The headline was:These...
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Trump's Crimes Against Democracy Tower Far Above His 4 Indictments
While it may be satisfying to call Trump and his enablers “fascists,” there’s a deeper truth here, with which America must come to terms: the Trump/MAGA faction of the GOP has declared war on democracy...
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ACM: If “Modernisation” on Rail means job cuts and safety issues, is...
We are once again in the midst of a campaign about the railways. Privatisation of train lines has not meant that there has been massive investment on trains, it has not meant that train services run...
View ArticleCapitalists reap their harvest
“Can you remember when Republicans still believed in the free market?”Dana Milbank, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, 6/15/23Milbank’s sarcasm is evident here. He and most progressives know that big money...
View ArticleCan America Move from a “Me Society” to a “We Society?”
Ron DeSantis, it’s reported this weekend, is targeting giant corporations and billionaires for money in exchange for political favors: he’s essentially soliciting bribes. How the hell did America get...
View ArticleWho are the Low Wage 100?
Jason Linkins writes, The CEOs who are robbing you blind, which is based on an eye-opening report from the The Institute for Policy Studies, called Executive Excess 2023.The Report contains a ranking...
View ArticleACM "Class struggle: a multispecies affair through which 'the soil' and 'the...
Part 1Is the climate crisis the direct outcome of the bourgeoisie’s drive to turn all life into profit-making opportunities? Therefore climate crisis is a class struggle.What kind of class struggle, as...
View ArticleBernie Sanders goes off on Big Pharma and the ruling class that opposes...
Ali Velshi ponders why many are against Medicare negotiating prices with Big Pharma. Bernie Sanders elaborated. It is the ruling class that objects.Bernie Sanders goes off on Big Pharma.xxYouTube...
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Class warfare is only OK when the rich do it. UAW 'escalating' stand-up...
UPDATE: Saturday, Sep 16, 2023 · 3:40:37 PM +00:00·annielixIn 2009, when the big three automakers were on the verge of bankruptcy, the auto workers in the UAW sacrificed pay and benefits to help get...
View ArticleWhat are we fighting for? Anti-Capitalist Meetup
Fighting this, fighting that, fighting for, or fighting against…For most of us, we are fighting our entire life, but not because we have to. We fight instead of collaborate because we are trained to...
View ArticleAs public support for unions grows, U.S. laws still favor employers
The laws that helped pull unionization down to near 10% remain on the books—but 6 out of 10 U.S. adults now say declining unionization is bad for the country.By Mark Kreidler for Capital & MainFor...
View ArticleIt’s not just Trump: It’s the oligarchy, stupid.
Beyond Trump, it’a also the Republican party leadership and Republican voters. Why are they lining up behind this lawless thug? There are two main factors: racism and massive wealth inequality....
View ArticleDecolonizing Wealth Project, Liberated Capital Award Over $1.7 million to...
For Immediate Release: Over 25 organizations will benefit through Liberated Capital, a fund of Decolonizing Wealth Project, helping Native Californians engage with the California Truth and Healing...
View ArticleChristmas Eve and the 1913 Massacre at Italian Hall in Michigan
The tragedy, 110 years ago on Christmas Eve in Italian Hall in Calumet Michigan, must never be forgotten. There were two sides in conflict at the time, the rich mine owners backed by their ruthless...
View ArticleThe Origin of Capitalism
Where did capitalism come from? No, before that, what is capitalism? No, before that, what is a capitalist? Not simply someone rich and powerful. Not just someone engaged in trade. Not just someone...
View ArticleWho deserves self-esteem?
“The idea of having to ‘earn a living’ implies that by default, you don’t actually deserve to be alive.”James EllarsNot surprisingly, America’s growing union movement is disagreeable to our wealthy...
View ArticleWhen Capitalism goes Wrong and Abuses Labor: A Brief Summary of the Worst...
When capitalists chase diminishing returns in a concentrated, temporary market, they often resort to injustice and violence. We must not forget the dark chapters in the history of capitalism, where...
View ArticleEconomics Book: G. K. Chesterton's Outline of Sanity
It is widely agreed that plutocratic, often kleptocratic capitalism is a disaster, as we have seen in descriptions of many financial catastrophes, and will see again. But what can we do about it? Well,...
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