Ron Paul and American Fascism.
I was perusing the internet for information on the subject at hand and found a great piece from about ten months ago by W.B.Reeves which I read with much interest. Reeves makes many of the points I've...
View ArticleWar Profiteering in Iraq.
When perfectly conservative sources like the Financial Times of London point to the shameless war profiteering in a particular conflict, one sits up and takes notice. The analysis done by FT estimates...
View ArticleCorporate Inversions and Tax Reform: Will Policy Changes Really Bring More...
Current attempts by the Obama Administration to close loopholes that allow US corporations to escape taxation on profits earned overseas, the so called "corporate inversions" whereby the foreign...
View ArticleWill the Fed Choke Off the Continuing Fragile Recovery?
The encouraging jobs reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) over the past few months has given the Fed the predictable jitters about inflation. This is unfortunate because unemployment...
View ArticleIt's Globalization, Stupid! US Global Business Model isn't a Policy, it's a...
Standard economic theory claims that millions of rational individuals simultaneously acting on their self interest produces results that are in society's collective best interests. The utter absurdity...
View ArticleUkrainian Nationalism Has A Long History of Brutality
The Civil War in the eastern Ukraine should have surprised no one; the Ukraine's geography and demographics made it a highly regional place throughout its history. The western Ukraine was always highly...
View ArticleDon't Arm Ukrainian Fascists!
The passage of the Ukrainian Freedom Support Act passed overwhelmingly by Congress late last year has little US popular support; opinion polls show that more than two thirds of the US public opposes...
View ArticleTime to Fight for a Just Minimum Wage
One of the MSNBC segments that took place in the immediate aftermath of Obama's SOTU address contained a brief interview with a libertarian US House representative from Illinois' 18th Congressional...
View ArticleRaise Wages to Fix the Economy
There is growing evidence that raising the minimum wage is good for the economy, pulls people out of poverty and doesn't reduce employment for low wage workers. Even some small business groups have now...
View ArticleThe Fiscal Crisis of the States: Towards a Marxist Approach to State Budget...
In 1973, a sociologist named James O'Conner offered us a brilliant alternative to the various common explanations of chronic federal deficits and the seeming persistence of fiscal crisis. His Marxist...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Zionism I: The Recent History of US/Israeli Military...
The annual amount of US government to government aid to Israel has averaged about $3 billion for quite some time; it is one of the most often repeated figures in the discourse on the Middle East in...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Zionism II: Oslo and the Globalization of the...
The State of Israel has experienced the same Fordism/post-Fordism transition over the last four decades as have all the most influential world capitalist economies such as the US, the UK, China, India...
View ArticleA Game of Thrones: Mr. Netanyahu Goes to Washington.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu misleadingly conflated Iran and ISIS as two fanatical powers locked in a "game of thrones" for world leadership of the extremist Jihadist movement. Netanyahu referred...
View ArticleIs He Serious?? The Republicans Insult America's Working Families. Again!!
One would think that the GOP would learn from one idiotic mistake. But when you're a dinosaur incapable of adaptation to your environment and stupid to boot, learning from past mistakes is our of the...
View ArticleCan Public Sector Employment Expansion Save the Economy?
A new release by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that we've just completed the fifth straight year of unbroken private sector job growth and are entering the sixth. Not only...
View ArticleAre We Returning to the Pre-WWI Days of Inter-Imperialist Rivalry?
Students of history all across the political spectrum see the run up to WWI as an intensified tendency of the nations of Europe, and eventually the US, to engage in the geopolitical rivalry for...
View ArticleIs 2016 a Good Opportunity for Progressives to Acquaint Voters with the Real...
Let the smear tactics begin! Hopefully it will show the American people just what kind of scum conservatives and the GOP really are. Bernie Sanders, an independent and social democrat in the US Senate,...
View ArticleThe War on Poverty A Half Century On; Race, Class and the Current Crisis.
This year marks the fifty first year anniversary of LBJ's "War on Poverty," a flurry of "Great Society programs designed to pull up millions of poor folks which, prior to 1965, accounted for no less...
View ArticleIs Globalization the Real Cause of US Unemployment and Chronic Stagnation?
Many progressives, myself included, have fallen into the globalization argument trap when accounting for chronically high average levels of unemployment in the US and low overall GDP growth rates or...
View ArticleWealth and Income Inequality as a Political Issue in America
A study done by two professors, one a business professor at Harvard the other a psychology professor at Duke University, on popular attitudes toward wealth inequality in contemporary America has shown...
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