Trump Tariffs Won't Work.
Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports could affect the prices of over 1,300 different kinds of consumer durables typically imported from China raising the price to US consumers often...
View ArticleSober Thoughts on Immigration
Guadalupe García de Rayos may have the first notable casualty of the recent Trump executive order deporting undocumented US residents charged with felonies. Garcia de Rayos has been here twenty two...
View ArticleToward a Deeper Understanding of the Muslim Ban.
The racist executive order signed by Donald Trump on January 27, 2017 to bar all refugees for 120 days, indefinitely bar Syrian refugees, and bar immigrants from Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia,...
View ArticleDoes the Large Annual US/Mexico Trade Deficit Allow Mexico to Finance the...
It’s hard to argue that since NAFTA went into effect in January 1994, trade relations with Mexico have been very beneficial for the US economy or its workers. According to the US Census Bureau, US...
View ArticleTrump, the Current Crisis of US Capitalism and the Myth of American...
The renowned twentieth century German philosopher Max Horkheimer famously remarked; “Those who do not wish to discuss capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism.” He was simply admonishing those...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Systemic Form of Election Fraud Keeping Republicans in Office No...
It’s been clear for a long time that Florida is the most important swing state for US presidential hopefuls. It’s quite hard to win an election without it. The GOP knows this and consequently has made...
View ArticleHow the GOP Broke Obamacare.
The recent premium hikes on many ACA plans, some say on average by 22% or more, shows the inherent weakness of a health care reform based on recommendations by the ultra-conservatiive Heritage...
View ArticleThe Alt-Right: Is Trump Mainstreaming Political Extremism
What began as a mere supposition at the start of Trumps campaign last year has now been confirmed beyond doubt. Trump’s campaign is bringing racist and fascist groups out of the shadows into mainstream...
View ArticleAnti-Brexit: Why Populist Xenophobia is No Answer to Middle Class Decline.
Late last week 52% of the roughly 33 million British voters in the referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union (EU) demanded exit. The vote favoring a British exit from the EU, or Brexit...
View ArticleIs Global Trade the Cause of Job Loss?
Presidential hopefuls across the political spectrum from Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders want to blame global trade and specifically “bad trade deals” for the ongoing loss of US jobs, particularly in...
View ArticleThe Gun Nuts.
I have never really had a strong opinion on guns or gun rights. I’m starting to rethink my views (or lack of them). The real apparent source of genocide against Americans is...other Americans, not...
View ArticleThe Roots of Homophobia
Most reliable contemporary research on homosexuality shows that although being gay is as old as humanity itself, homophobia is not and in fact, open anti-gay bigotry is a distinctly modern phenomenon....
View ArticleAbout that "Radical Islam" Thing...
President Obama’s speech in the immediate aftermath of the massacre inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was brilliant and compelling. His case against using the term “radical Islam” was convincing...
View ArticleWhen Will We Acknowledge the WORKING POOR are a National Issue?
It is generally acknowledged that for the first twenty years after the end of WWII, about one in every five Americans fell below a conservatively estimated poverty line. Today, it is closer to one in...
View ArticleTrump's Foreign Policy
Many of Trump’s detractors across the political spectrum have declared that he has no foreign policy approach or even the most rudimentary knowledge of foreign policy making. This is a dangerous...
View ArticleBernie and the Banks
Financial reform is a core issue for Bernie Sanders and is a popular one with the voters as well. If Hillary gets the Democratic Party nomination, which is pretty much a certainty at this point, it...
View ArticleObamacare, the Working Poor and the Middle Class: A Critique.
Obamacare was a good start and has saved a lot of people who didn’t have health insurance. Stories abound! It was based in part on expanding Medicaid by relying on individual states to raise the income...
View ArticleDoes Trump's Candidacy Constitute a Threat of Fascism?
The renowned Frankfurt School thinker Max Horkheimer famously remarked, “Those who do not wish to discuss Capitalism should also keep quite about fascism.” How prescient those words were in light of...
View ArticleIs Bernie Sanders the Antidote to Trump's Reactionary Politics?
In a recent post on Monthly Review’s MRZine blog, which I highly recommend, Victor Wallis explained that the Trump phenomenon is historically symptomatic of deepening capitalist crisis whereby poor...
View ArticleThe Crisis in the Eurozone Revisited: Towards an Alternative Theory of Money.
Discussion of the Eurozone crisis is again catching public attention as yet a fifth bailout has been disbursed to the Greek government worth about 2 billion Euros ($2.3 billion). The cost of this...
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