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Not surprised that Disney’s Bob Iger is one of the sociopathically greedy oligarchs name-checked by Bernie Sanders, who cites their opposition to his campaign alongside an indictment of their economic crimes against this country. I’ve been trying to find more … Continue reading →

Travis Gettys at Raw Story chronicles Trump’s sex exploits with underage girls. Completing Trump’s wholesale corruption of American justice and American democracy, Trump has obviously tasked the Attorney General with obstructing the case against Epstein to protect Trump’s own involvement. … Continue reading →

His latest bid for dictator status comes in yet another attempt to shut down the Democrats’ lawsuit over his violation of the emoluments clause. We know he never does any actual work–he’s never actually done an honest day’s work in … Continue reading →

Her petty attacks on the progressive freshmen in her caucus sound bitter and are counter-factual. It’s as if she’s thrown down the gauntlet against the future of the Democratic Party.

is one of the reasons that developers run the city, de Blasio has disabled the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and why Manhattan (and Brooklyn is becoming) is so grotesquely overbuilt. Cem S. Kayatekin at The Conversation outlines a way out of … Continue reading →

I will go into this in the essay I’m writing on The War on the Arts in America. David Masciotra at Salon goes into it very well at Salon, citing the facts that “Three-fourths of the public is unaware why … Continue reading →

In D.C., two Wednesdays ago, a world of poseurs and criminal frauds dissembling their asses off. On stage at at the Metropolitan Opera, a microcosm where creative duplicity is innocuous–and sometimes delightful as well as instructive. It’s a coverup of … Continue reading →

Lucien K. Truscott at Salon: “I’ve spent my entire life trying to figure out how the entire nation of Germany, all of its ordinary citizens living in cities and towns and villages across the country, could have stood by while … Continue reading →

don’t like it when presidential aspirants stick it to corporate greed. At Raw Story, Bob Brigham covers the outbreak of platform suppression that occurred when corporate “news” anchor Savannah Guthrie couldn’t handle Kirsten Gillibrand’s inculpation of corporate greed.

I’m tired of hearing crap about Injustice Roberts being in institutionalist. What he is is an incrementalist, who has strategized his attack on American democracy to unfold in stages. His current endorsement of partisan gerrymandering, together with his gutting of … Continue reading →