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The Royal Threat Behind Trump’s Petty Pomposity

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Yes, You Can Fight the Bastards… and Win!

24.01.2025 10

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The Billionaire Bros Do the Immigrant Worker Two-Step

17.01.2025 20

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Jimmy Carter’s Light Exposes Trump Darkness

10.01.2025 5

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My New Year’s Resolutions for Some Powerful People

I made a few New Year’s resolutions this week — not for me, but as self-improvement ideas for some of the powerful people running our country. No...

04.01.2025 10

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Daddy’s Philosophy

This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas, Hanukkah and other...

24.12.2024 5

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Greed is Immoral. Health Care Greed is Abominable

America has endured a long panorama of corporate greed — from the East India Trading Company to the Robber Barons, Gordon Gecko Wall Streeters to...

18.12.2024 40

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Don’t Buy Coca-Cola Plastic Promise

Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King was renowned for his frequent malapropisms and contorted logic, and now Coca-Cola wants to borrow his tactic to...

17.12.2024 5

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Remembering Fred Harris

11.12.2024 3

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A Kakistocracy Takes Over Immigration Policy

Social media has been lighting up like fireworks, with myriad Trump voters exclaiming, “I didn’t know he meant me!” For example, many MAGA...

04.12.2024 3

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Trump’s Plan to Feed the Greed of Corporate Elites

Howard Lutnick wants to have his cake and eat it, too. Then, he intends to eat your cake. Lutnick is another billionaire corporate huckster who was...

27.11.2024 6

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How Trump’s Made-in-America Scam Still Means Made-in-China

Wow! Who says election promises don’t produce real change? Candidate Donald Trump had loudly proclaimed that he’d force U.S. corporations to move...

21.11.2024 10

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Mobile Home Residents Should Be Able To Buy Their Parks – OpEd

Even in a barrelful of rotten apples, you might think there’d still be a few good ones. But don’t get your hopes up looking into barrels labeled “...

16.11.2024 2

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Maine Law Lets Mobile Home Owners Buy Their Parks

Even in a barrelful of rotten apples, you might think there’d still be a few good ones. But don’t get your hopes up looking into barrels labeled “...

15.11.2024 6

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Can Our Elections Be Made Even More Vapid? Some Are Banking On It

Many people feel that America’s political campaigns have become vapid PR hustles with little connection to the real-life concerns of workaday...

11.11.2024 8

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The Shame of TD Bank’s Jolly Bankers

Woody Guthrie satirized Depression-era bankers who routinely gouged farmers and poor people. “I’m a jolly banker, jolly banker am I,” Woody sang...

31.10.2024 4

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Lilly Ledbetter Fought the Bastards – And Won for All of Us

Forget the cartoonish “Great Man” version of American history. Nearly all social progress in our country has been spurred by unheralded...

24.10.2024 1

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Sordid Story: Corporate Executives Get Self-Gratification from M&As

Sadism and masochism (abbreviated as S&M) are generally frowned on in polite society as perverse acts of sexual gratification. But what should we...

17.10.2024 4

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To Get Good Local News, Try Do-It-Yourself Journalism

Perhaps you’ve noticed from the shrinkage (or total elimination) of your local newspaper that this source of hometown journalism has become...

03.10.2024 3

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School Lunch, Christian Nationalism and Jesus

An iconic Texas band, the Austin Lounge Lizards, has a song that nails the absurd self-righteousness of Christian supremacists: “Jesus Loves Me...

26.09.2024 3

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Corporate Profiteers Are Robbing America’s Farmers – OpEd

A farmer was asked what he’d do if he won a million-dollar lottery. “Well,” he said, “I guess I’d just keep farming ‘til the money runs...

24.09.2024 1

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The Battle of Baraboo: Privatizer Greed v. Seniors’ Health Care

Baraboo, Wisconsin, is known as the former home of the Ringling Bros. Circus‘ headquarters. But even that extravaganza of acrobats and clowns could...

18.09.2024 2

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Why Are We Letting Corporate Profiteers Write America’s Farm and Food Policy?

A farmer was asked what he’d do if he won a million-dollar lottery. “Well,” he said, “I guess I’d just keep farming ’til the money runs...

14.09.2024 10

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Establishment Economists Attack Kamala Harris – For Being Right

“I’ve got those Payday-Friday Grocery store blues.” That working-class lament is from an old bluegrass song, but millions of working stiffs are...

28.08.2024 4

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The Changing Meaning of ‘Work’ – And the Idea of ‘Boss Man’

“Big Boss Man,” an old song by blues legend Jimmy Reed, still packs a potent political punch for today’s working class: You got me workin’,...

25.08.2024 3

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Beware the Corporate Democratic Donors With Knives Out for Lina Khan

Khan is the first real antitrust champion America has had in years. But will leading Democrats have the guts and integrity to defend her?

16.08.2024 3

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A Flock of Rich Plutocratic Democrats Want Lina Khan’s Head. Why?

We’ve recently learned about Project 2025, the GOP’s scheme to let corporate agents take over our government. But what about the less visible...

14.08.2024 2

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‘Laffin’ Kamala’ vs. ‘Grumpin’ Trump’

You know that American politics is turning into a sad joke when a supposedly serious presidential campaign tries to demonize laughter. Yet,...

07.08.2024 20

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Trump and His GOP Sycophants Driven Crazy by Kamala

Suddenly, the presidential election has turned dynamic … even fun! The handoff from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris has not only energized Democrats,...

04.08.2024 5

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Singing the Chick-fil-A Child Labor Blues

“Summertime, and the living is easy, fish are jumping, and …” Wait a minute, what the hell is this? A summer camp for kids — but with a disturbing...

18.07.2024 10

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Why Kids in Louisiana Won’t Listen to Their Pious Governor

For us Texans, there’s nothing new about Bible-thumping politicians bedeviling us with the foolishness of their dogmatic Christian piety. A century...

16.07.2024 4

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