Independent investigative journalism is on its deathbed. Truthtellers like Pro-publica, Mother Jones, Common Dreams, Truthdig, MoveOn, The Nation, the Prospect, and many more are non-profit and independent. They depend on contributions from the public, along with all charities and non-profits who have their hands out. Most of the in-depth…
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…
Many have searched for reasons to explain Elon Musk’s departure from seemingly sane politics to a radical, even bizarre, personal, and financial support of the most unfit and unhinged candidate to ever infect politics, Donald Trump. For such an influential billionaire spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a…
An aggressive masculinity, one repressive toward women, has always been imbedded in America’s culture, from its Anglo-Saxon puritanical beginnings to the now hostile sexism of the Trump-Vance political ticket. In our more modern world, the drumbeat of sexism and the hum of male-dominance has been drilled into commerce &…
Does America have some nefarious, overarching figure, a puppet-master who pulls the strings for the ultra-conservative movement. It seems that behind the scenes some such shadowy force makes things happen to transform our society on the sly. Or is it a clique of the ultra-greedy? For example, it is…
On this approaching Day of Independence, we as the majority have great tasks before us. We must re-evaluate that independence, especially from despots among us who would take it away. A country’s Constitution is supposed to set standards for a its government and its citizens, and is especially important…
Political leaders, with the notable exception of most Republicans, focus on the major problems our nation faces. One of the biggest is climate change. It constitutes reason and science with attacks on climate change & new technology—Most Americans have no idea about the giant impact on green energy that…
Trump is America’s most immediate threat to democracy’s dissolution. His violent rhetoric poses a looming peril to humanity. Like Hitler before him, whom he mimics in his populist rallies, hateful vitriol pours forth to poison mind and soul. If we survive this onslaught of hate and revenge from this…
When UFOs are observed, media coverage is based on what will draw public interest, often citing stories they can sell with snide remarks or prompts for comic attention. News chiefs fear opening themselves to ridicule or inviting mockery or derision. Such a policy has been guided by past experience,…
Brask, daring, in-your-face lawlessness -- it reminds you of Donald Trump. Among broad-daylight Nordstrom shoppers, thirty masked shoplifters made what is a common misdemeanor an outrageous, eye-popping violent crime, glass display cases crashing to the floor like explosives, grabbing $100,000 worth of expensive items. Such “smash-and-grab robberies” are becoming…
The Republican Party is now essentially a wasteland where political hacks must go for the allure of a well-financed political career. With over fifty years of tampering with a functional structure of a working democracy, once open to vibrant change, corporate leaders have profusely financed and created an agency…