America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.… Read More America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
Tag: Trump
The Mephistopheles Media
With Trump gone, what will the media feed their clickbait hunger with? War? Russia, China, Syria, Iran?… Read More The Mephistopheles Media
Evidence Mounts that President Trump May Have a Serious Personality Disorder
“The greatest danger, as we saw with Nixon, is that pathological narcissists can lose touch with reality in subtle ways that become extremely dangerous over time”… Read More Evidence Mounts that President Trump May Have a Serious Personality Disorder
Giving Trump Carte Blanche for War
A little-noticed Senate bill would give Donald Trump blanket permission to launch wars in violation of the Constitution… Read More Giving Trump Carte Blanche for War
The Real Threat to the Fed’s Independence Is Wall Street, Not Trump
Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve are norm breaking, but the financial industry’s influence over the central bank is far more unsettling… Read More The Real Threat to the Fed’s Independence Is Wall Street, Not Trump
Trump’s Enemy Is Not Your Friend: Why We Shouldn’t Defend Amazon
Why must we choose between the worst president of our lifetimes and one of the most rapacious corporate enterprises in the country?… Read More Trump’s Enemy Is Not Your Friend: Why We Shouldn’t Defend Amazon
The New Blacklist
Russiagate may have been aimed at Trump to start with, but it’s become a way of targeting all dissent… Read More The New Blacklist
How Netanyahu Pulls Trump’s Strings
It turns out that Hillary Clinton was partly correct: President Trump is a “puppet,” but his puppet master isn’t Russian President Putin but Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu… Read More How Netanyahu Pulls Trump’s Strings
How Washington and Wall Street Broke Puerto Rico
The island is a colony by another name, denied basic rights afforded to states and preyed upon by bankers. Hurricane Maria was a 100-year disaster in the making… Read More How Washington and Wall Street Broke Puerto Rico
Trump’s Iran Decision Invites War
By decertifying the Iran-nuke deal, President Trump opts for another Mideast war of choice, but war on Iran is really the choice of Israel and Saudi Arabia wanting the U.S. to do the killing and dying… Read More Trump’s Iran Decision Invites War
Government by Goldman
Gary Cohn Is giving Goldman Sachs everything it ever wanted from the Trump Administration… Read More Government by Goldman
Why Corporations Always Win
“[The power of the Corporatocracy] to write its own laws and regulations, Chomsky points out, has ultimately created a mafia economic system and a mafia political system that is exemplified in the rise to power of the demagogue Donald Trump”… Read More Why Corporations Always Win
