Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars and Bailouts
The American Empire is failing. A number of its puppet rulers are being overthrown by popular...
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More Jobs Mirage
The announcement on March 4 that 192,000 new jobs were created in February was greeted with a sigh of relief. But the number is just more smoke and mirrors, as I will show shortly. First, let’s pretend the jobs are real....
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The Perfidy of Government: Evidence v. Denial
This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and...
Read MoreA Government Shut-down Imperils the Power of Congress
Congress should think twice before forcing a government shutdown as the consequences could be the loss of the power of Congress to control spending through authorization and appropriation bills. Congress permitted President...
Read MoreObama’s FY 2012 Budget Is A Tool Of Class War
Obama’s new budget is a continuation of Wall Street’s class war against the poor and middle class. Wall Street wasn’t through with us when the banksters sold their fraudulent derivatives into our pension funds, wrecked...
Read MoreThe Shame of Being an American
The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down. On February 15 “the indispensable people” had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State...
Read MoreHas There Been An Egyptian Revolution?
I popped the champagne cork to celebrate the Egyptian people’s success in driving out of office the American puppet, Mubarak. However, as I wrote on February 1, Mubarak’s departure doesn’t guarantee that his successor will not...
Read MoreKleptocrats at Work
Kleptocracy is as old as government. Exotic car broker Michael Sheehan discovered an amazing case nine years ago when he was invited to purchase rare Ferraris and McLaren F1s from a Brunei collection. He writes about it in the...
Read MoreAmericans Are Oppressed, Too
Police in the U.S. now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the...
Read MoreThings Have To Change In Order To Remain The Same
The hypocrisy of the US government is yet again demonstrated in full bore force. The US government invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, laid waste to much of the countries, including entire villages and towns, and massacred untold...
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