Recently 60 Minutes aired an episode about Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund known for slashing purchased local newspapers to the bone by running them into the ground and selling off all valuable assets. Featured was Evan Brandt, who is literally the last journalist standing at The…
In response to Republican (A Party which the SCOTUS-alt6 now mirrors in intent) attacks on democracy and the gutting of established human rights, Democrats counter with unimaginative legalistic challenges and/or dreams of recapturing power lost. Their efforts seem frail and fearful of voter and media disapproval. It is simple,…
Using God and guns drives the NRA and Texas Republican politics: At an NRA convention in Houston TX immediately following the slaughter of 19 Texas children in Uvalde, Texas, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA Executive Vice President, said, “God help us if we don’t harden our schools” That entails the…
Republicans demonstrate their distaste for democracy in varying ways and degrees. They range from the most violent to the everyday Chipaways of democracy, the latter discovering that their future requires actually governing for the multi-ethnic majority, something they find repugnant. The whole party has plans for democracy’s dissolution at…
As many of us know, the people who make the most noise, get more of a hearing, and usually they are a minority. This is also the case regarding banning books that offend a small minority of Americans. Let’s be informed that it’s not just a call from the…
Corporate America has been so embedded in one political party that many corporations & corporate-tied vested interests have, indirectly, provided financial support to the violent overthrow of our government. Since many in the GOP, almost exclusively an agency for corporate privilege, supported the violent overthrow of democracy – tacitly…
Vladimir Putin is a butcher with a modern, updated approach to war-criminal standards. His strategy and the nature of his global threat must be identified and considered by the United States, the current leader of the free world. I say current due to the menacing threat to American democracy…
No doubt, in Putin’s invasion calculous is the weakened state of America’s democracy, a weakening with great contributions by a now seditionist GOP and a loud anti-democratic right-wing for-profit media, and even with contributions from corporate-influenced and owned mainstream sources as well. Mainstream media helps to amplify the hate…
Sick of the dumb, blind optimist? Well, join my club because the damn glass IS half empty, here!After many reads about the unintelligent and their need to belong to the cult of optimism, I will conclude that yes indeed, I am proud to be an intelligent pessimist. Pessimists don’t…
The Republican Party at one time was a vibrant party that worked for the good of the people, but during the course of over a generation has changed drastically. It has become nihilistic and negative, working for the demise of our democracy and primarily for its own authoritarian control.…