The Highroad
Spookinomics
Trump’s White House seems to be both spooked... and spooky.
Check out a 72-page “spookinomics” report issued right before Halloween by his Council of Economic...
Will you support Carl Icahn’s charity?
Wall Street buccaneer Carl Icahn has pocketed billions on deals, but he says he’s now passionate about helping others.
In particular, the corporate-takeover specialist is...
Making consumer protection into corporate protection
The giants of food manufacturing are very concerned about you. They fear you could come down with a terrible plague called “consumer confusion” — and these selfless corporate entities are going all out to save you from it...
The New American Aristocracy
Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People —...
Walgreens: An unpatriotic ingrate
How would you react if one of your neighbors announced that while he obviously benefits from having clean water, highways, Medicare, police protection, parks, schools, and other public services, he was no longer going to pay his part of the taxes that make them ...
Monsanto vs. Mother Nature: Guess who’s winning?
If you fool with Mother Nature, she’ll most likely fool with you — usually in very unpleasant ways...
Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers
Look out — the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land...
Punishing the innocent, enriching the guilty
A recent email to me pretty well sums up the big budget hullaballoo being pushed by tea party Republicans. As the writer put it: “Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401ks, took ...
A health care system for people, not just for corporate profit
America is number one in health care! But before erupting in proud chants of USA! USA! — note that we’re only number one in...
Smedley Darlington Butler and why he’s important
Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history, but consider the “Wall Street Putsch” of 1933.
Never heard of...
Would you trust John Yoo?
Noting that the U.S. military was developing armed, autonomous robots to serve as battleground soldiers in our wars, a 2015 New York Times article...
A corporate split on climate change policy
"The carbon-based free lunch is over," crowed the speaker. "Breakthroughs on climate change and improving our society's energy efficiency are within reach," he declared, to the enthusiastic cheers of environmentalists...
