The Highroad
What’s the word for America’s corrupt big bank system?
Stumpf” is a German adjective that means someone is obtuse, slow on the uptake, imperceptive... stupid.
Ironically, it also happens to be the surname of...
PR soap can’t scrub off banker greed
Greenwashing” is the use of shameless PR campaigns by notorious polluters to portray their corporations as benign Bambi-loving protectors of nature. But now comes “Greedwashing...
Have you heard the news? Poverty is over!
Someone needs to buy a Grassroots USA tour package for the members of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, so they can at least...
Sanders’ populist surge
Not only have crowds been streaming into arenas all around the country to hear Bernie Sanders’ fact-studded speeches, but ordinary Americans have also been...
By axing parks, politicos are stealing the people
Sorry, we’re closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the country as governors and legislators are cutting off funds (and shutting off access) to one of the finest, most popular assets owned by the people of our country...
The secessionist tempest in Texas
Once again, there’s a tempest brewing in the national tea pot. We’re talking secession! Well, some of us are...
Obama’s bizarre sales pitch for TPP
For some bizarre reason, Obama is staking his presidential legacy on a trade scam called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It’s a corporate wet dream that would let profiteering giants in Japan, Vietnam, Brunei and eight other Pacific nations sue to overturn our ...
A governor eaten up by corporate ideology
In office for only half a year, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has made clear to the people of his state what he’s made of: right-wing ideological Silly Putty...
Hiding worker injuries
According to the latest safety reports, workplace injuries are on the decline in our country. Great! Only ... it’s untrue. Why? Because many burns, cuts, poisonings and other on-the-job injuries are deliberately hidden from America’s Occupational Safety and ...
Who needs Wall Street giants?
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the other Wall Street behemoths that dominate American banking — who needs ‘em...
Where does inequality come from?
The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon — it’s caused intentionally by policy decisions that corporate...
Avoid Amazon’s ‘Cyber Monday’ and buy local
It’s “Cyber Monday” — get out there and buy stuff!
But you don’t actually have to go anywhere, for this gimmicky shop-shop-shop day lures us...
