Media focus is myopic. Its narrative sees only the visible participants. What is of consequence behind the settings are usually invisible. That prevailing force is corporate. In a democratic capitalist system, we depend on media sources to disperse unvarnished truth, but the ultimate check on the corporate control is…
Charles Dickens also lived in an era when elite forces ruled, for us the corporate elite. Upheaval in France had brought excesses on both sides. First “Let them eat cake” is a familiar sentiment of the exploitive rich in late 1700 France, a quote usually attributed to an arrogant…
America’s history of defending democratic principles leaves a lot to be desired. Actions of presidents in the past bordered on questionable, many times marked by expedience and partisanship. Deadly actions were often taken with little transparency and no real urgency. A grossly unpopular war was authorized by the Congress’s…
According to a CBS 60-Minutes report on 5/16/2021, the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee has ordered the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense to deliver a report on decades of mysterious Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings by next month. There has often been a Looney-Tunes flavor to…
Since 1916 we – American taxpayers -- have given $470 billion to “Big Oil” for the oil depletion allowance which, in effect, has paid oil companies more than the capital cost of the asset, in this case, oil. The oil depletion allowance in American tax law is an allowance…
Required to realistically Renew Democracy in the USA with Republican-controlled states trying to disenfranchise non-white voters: A. For the People Act, HR1 2021 1. Uniform Voting Rights for all states – Republican or Democratically Controlled. a) Automatic voter registration. b) Election day a federal holiday. c) Voting rights for felons…
“Follow the money,” we often hear investigators say in finding culprits behind crime and corruption. One most willing receiver of such shady money, Donald J. Trump, sought to retain unaccountability for his crimes as well as dominion over an almost limitless supply of booty tied to his presidency by…
First order of business is to remove Mitch McConnell as a force of control in the US Senate. He is equally as toxic for the American people as Donald Trump has been in the White House. The Georgia voters must give Joe Biden a chance to repair the damage…
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an effort or organization through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur. Saboteurs typically try to conceal their identities because of the consequences of their actions or mask their actions, misrepresenting their intent. On a wartime footing,…
The real perpetrators of the world’s critical problems are in the shadows, actually hiding behind the actors daily portrayed in all the media forums: newsprint, magazines, television, social media, billboards, and books, even the pretend media of fiction, whether movies, novels or plays. The problems are encapsulated in at…