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Politicians are using the Nazi “Big Lie” to cheat American Workers out of...
For decades billionaire Foundations and conservative politicians have been spreading the big lie that Social Security is broke. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote: “When...
View ArticleThe Exsanguination of Medical Ethics
For thousands of years physicians took oaths to always act in the patient’s best interest when providing care. At the heart of medical ethics, this moral code was passed down through the centuries and...
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When Armistice Day and Remembrance Day Turned into War Day
Cognitive dissonance in Psychology The psychological tension that occurs when one holds mutually exclusive beliefs or attitudes and that often motivates people to modify their thoughts or behaviors in...
View ArticleTrump’s Sadist-in-Chief
Mr. Mick Mulvaney’s title seems uninterestingly bureaucratic—director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). But as Trump’s chief hatchet man extraordinaire, Mugger Mick Mulvaney is easily one...
View ArticleThe History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill
At a time when the American population is radicalizing, when popular movements are coalescing around “radical” demands—Medicare for All, the abolition of ICE, tuition-free college, in general the...
View ArticleDespite Caving on Superdelegate Votes, Democratic Leaders Stick With Old Wine...
The challenge by progressives to Democratic party leaders for November’s midterms—and the 2020 presidential election—is to tone down the anti-Trump focus and play up domestic planks as did the Great...
View ArticleHousing Crisis, Mental Health Collective Breakdown, 9 am to 5 am Work!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature He who does not travel, who does not read, who does...
View ArticleSocial Security: The 14th Amendment and “Odious Debt”
The Republican Party prepares to violate the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution: Social Security — the 14th amendment and “odious debt”. For decades the working people have been paying millions...
View ArticleMagic Money Working Magic on 401(k)s
A top policy expert isn’t buying reports of a private-sector retirement “crisis.” In an article, Andrew Biggs not only rejected the gloom but offered a striking counter-narrative. He cited figures...
View ArticleOur Counterfeit Social Security Crisis
The humorist Mark Twain once called reports of his death “an exaggeration.” The same goes for the endless fearmongering and scare stories about America’s most popular government program, Social...
View ArticleA Wall Street Boost for Social Security
The aging of America is putting the squeeze on Social Security. About 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day and the number is heading even higher. Ready or not, our retirement system faces its first...
View ArticleEven the Democrats Do Favors for the Rich
In 2017 a Republican-controlled Congress passed a tax cut hugely tilted to corporations and the wealthy. In the waning days of 2019, the Democratic-controlled House did a kind of me-too. It pushed...
View ArticleThe 5th Coronavirus Relief Package We Need
The coronavirus depression is fast becoming as deep as the Great Depression. The federal government’s response has been too little, too late. While sickness and death spread, while unemployment and...
View ArticleA Manifesto for the United States of America, Part I
The impunity of U.S. police in killing and brutalizing blacks, native Americans, other minorities and the poor is being tested. It has always been clear to its victims that it demands redress, but...
View ArticleWE Charity Scandal and NGOs’ Role in Imperialism
Once again the media focuses on salacious details rather than the big picture. While TV and newspapers have focused on the whiff of corruption surrounding the government’s $900 million contract with...
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What Can We Learn from Cuba? Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point
As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All as a final...
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Saving Social Security
Financial constraints indicate that Social Security (SS) has a precarious future. Ignored is that Social Security history shows built-in failures that cannot be constantly repaired. Only a National...
View ArticleCrucial Choices Ahead for Beloved, Besieged Social Security
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That famous phrase from Charles Dickens sums up the double-edged sword hanging over the roughly 63 million Americans now getting monthly...
View ArticleLet Them Die!
In the spirit of Jonathan Swift’s satirical world (“A Modest Proposal”), we might facetiously attribute the recent decline in US life expectancy to a concerted effort to strengthen the social safety...
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France and the Dilemma of Electoral Politics in the 21st Century
French workers currently live nearly two years longer than their counterparts in member states in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), composed of roughly the world’s...
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