Georgia Runoff is Clear Choice: Do we Remain a Democracy or Welcome a Dictatorship?
PREVIOUS: Don’t let their words distract you. The Republicans and their backers are coming for your money. Dear Fellow American: I’m an octogenarian. What a privilege it was to grow up in America in the 1950s and 60s. A fabulously rich country, a democracy. The rule of law. Opportunity. Though my parents, grandparents, older […]
Debate Among Evangelicals Suggest Softening of Their Support for Trump
Florida Evangelicals Explain Why They Can No Longer Vote For President Trump On August 15, a small group called Fed Up New Yorkers—based in Donald Trump’s home state, where people know him best—used ads on Facebook to post a memorandum to Evangelical voters. The message was blunt. We challenged these people of faith to compare […]
Anti-abortion Zealotry: Trump’s Greatest Con Was Nixon’s Legacy
HOW THE ABORTION CONTROVERSY SERVES CONSERVATISM AND RACISM For some Evangelical voters, as hundreds of recent social-media comments demonstrate, abortion is the moral and religious imperative that overrides all other issues. Because in many cases this blinds them to Donald Trump’s clearly visible sins, it’s important to understand how this came to be. A hint: […]
Class War’s Smoking Gun: Corporate Elites’ 50-year Plan to Rule the United States
“I believe leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society. …I cannot sit there seeking unity with the leaders of American industry, while […]
Why Donald Trump is Killing the Postal Service: to Rig the Election, with Putin’s Help
Donald Trump is killing the U.S. Postal Service because he and Vladimir Putin are set up to rig America’s voting machines. That’s where our election is most vulnerable; not from paper, mail-in ballots, which are by far the safest voting method we have. They want you to fear the wrong things about the voting process. […]
FLORIDA’S POLITICAL MAFIA, Part 2: Lobbyists, the Ultimate Swamp Creatures
FLORIDA’s POLITICAL MAFIA Part 1: ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI, FOR SALE TO TRUMP FLORIDA’S POLITICAL MAFIA PART 2: LOBBYISTS, The ULTIMATE SWAMP CREATURES PREVIOUS: FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI, FOR SALE TO TRUMP FOLLOW THE MONEY TO TRUMP’S FLORIDA GANG: BALLARD PARTNERS A crew of lobbyists, lawyers and public relations people—hacks and flacks—are the component […]
With Trump’s Approval, Big Tobacco and New Players Use Nicotine to Hook a New Generation of Consumers
TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO Part 1: systematic lies about smoking’s health dangers TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO PART 2: the money pours in, vaping regulations slow-walked PREVIOUS: BIG TOBACCO’S DECADES OF LIES ABOUT SMOKING’S DANGERS PART 2: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT CIGARETTE SMOKING WAS DYING OUT: NOW THIS We thought we had finally gotten rid […]
A New Generation of Addicts: Trump Takes Tobacco Money, Becomes Friend to Vaping Industry
TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO Part 1: systematic lies about smoking’s health dangers TRUMP AND BIG TOBACCO PART 2: the money pours in, vaping regulations slow-walked PART 1: DO YOU LOVE YOUR KIDS? WHAT A QUESTION! WE ALL LOVE OUR KIDS. But never mind love. Does Donald Trump even care about your kids? I grew up […]
FLORIDA’S POLITICAL MAFIA, Part 1: Attorney General Pam Bondi, for Sale to Trump
FLORIDA’s POLITICAL MAFIA Part 1: ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI, FOR SALE TO TRUMP FLORIDA’S POLITICAL MAFIA PART 2: LOBBYISTS, The ULTIMATE SWAMP CREATURES PAM BONDI: TRUMP’S FLORIDA MAFIA PRINCESS Pam Bondi, Florida’s first female attorney general, announced in 2013 that she was considering an investigation into the fraudulent scheme called “Trump University,” a scam that […]