Labor’s Demise as a Countervailing Power
It is Labor Day weekend, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave...
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In America, The Rule Of Law Is Vacated
With bank fraudsters, torturers, and war criminals running free, the US Department of Justice...
Read MoreThe Last Whistleblower
Bob and Darin were on a panel together discussing banalities in generalities, as is the usual case. If either had said anything meaningful on the subject, the moderator would have cut him off. Bob didn’t know Darin. He was...
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9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?
In a few days, it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US...
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A Parasite On The World
If Russian Prime Minister Putin’s recent description of America as “a parasite on the world” was...
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The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means
On Friday, August 5, the credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, downgraded US debt from AAA...
Read MoreCreating Evidence Where There Is None
The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. There is no useful information in the story. Its...
Read MoreThe Decline and Fall of the American Empire
The United States Government and its presstitute media have wasted time and energy creating hysteria over a non-existent “debt ceiling crisis.” After reading the “news” in the Ministry of Propaganda and witnessing the stupidity...
Read MoreDisastrous Outcomes From An Orchestrated Crisis
With the world concerned about US financial credibility and the poor outlook for the US economy, now is not the time for the Republicans to grandstand on the public debt. The debt ceiling needed to be quietly raised. Instead,...
Read MoreAre We Being Had?
In my last column I suggested that an unintended outcome of the debt ceiling impasse could be Congress’ loss of the power of the purse. In this column I suggest an intended outcome that the ongoing political theater might be...
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