Tent cities are growing all over the country. Over 47 million people now live below the poverty line. There are growing numbers of tent cities, surrounding over 55 American metro areas. Hundreds live in squalor in the Taco Flats area of Fresno, California. Others live in tents in the woods near Ann Arbor, Michigan. On any [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Human Rights'
Homeless in Seattle…and Lakewood…and Reno…and more…
August 28th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Human Rights, jobs
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
June 23rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · ALEC, Democracy, Fascism, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and modern art, an old woman, dressed in a ragged coat, with an old woolen bandana wrapped around her head dragged a small cart down the street. The formerly popular neighborhood was [...]
Tags: ALEC·ALEC's paid legislators·Corporatism·lobbyists·national debt·Neo-Fascism·Neo-Fascist Republicans·Neoconservative propaganda·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·tax cuts for the rich·Tea Party Fascists
The Scott Walker Story
May 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments · ALEC, Corporations and Industry, Democracy, Fascism, Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito Mussolini. There is so much on the negative side and so little on the positive side that it is extraordinarily difficult to be objective. We will try to give his side [...]
Tags: ALEC·ALEC corporate legislation·ALEC lobbyists·corrupt state legislators·Governor Scott Walker·Neo-Fascist corporations·Scot Walker of Wisconsin·Scott Walker Fascist state government·the Right Wing·Tom Barrett·Wisconsin recall election
The Danger of a Nazi America
April 26th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Culture, Democracy, General, Human Rights, Politics, Populism, wars and militarism
A lot of Right Wing radio commentators toss around the word “Nazi” these days and it seems that many of them have no idea what they are talking about. Of all absurd things, they call the President a Nazi at times when they are really getting loony. President Barack Obama is a man whom many [...]
Tags: avoiding a return to Fascism·Fascism·Fascism in America·Nazi·Nazi political philosophy·Nazis in America·Republican Neo-Fascists·Republicans as Neo-Fascists·the characteristics of Fascism
Carolina on My Mind
April 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Media, Politics, Populism, Social Security
In 2010, over 60 seats changed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The South didn’t change that much because the South was already pretty much in the hands of the Republican Party. And when we say the Republican Party, remember that this is not Eisenhower’s Republican Party, the hero of World War II, the Augusta [...]
Tags: health care reform·North Carolina politics·Republican health care plans·Republican lobbying·Republican obstructionism·Senator Jim DeMInt·Senator Richard Burr·South Carolina politics
The Catholic Church, the President, the Heritage Foundation and Birth Control
February 24th, 2012 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
One of the implementations of the new health care reform that has gone into effect is the provision that says that women’s reproductive health, the most visible of which is birth control pills, must be included in any health insurance package. This is new. It is part of the law that tries to stop health [...]
Tags: birth control·health insurance obstructionism·Obama and the Catholic church·Obamacare and contraception·Republican anti-women policies·the Catholic Church·the Catholic Church and birth control
The High Cost of Neo-Fascism
February 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Democracy, Health Care, Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
At the very outset, let’s restate our definition of Neo-Fascism. Even if you do not agree with our definition of the current Republican Party being Neo-Fascist, you will at least know why we make that contention. Remember, Populism is the opposite of Fascism. Populism is a political theory that says that everything starts with the [...]
Tags: Corporatism·deficits·Health Care·health care reform·jobs·national debt·Neo-Fascism·Neocons·Neoconservative·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican obstruction·Right Wing Propaganda·unions
The Planned Koch Brothers’ Political Takeover
February 8th, 2012 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
You must understand one thing. A vote for a Republican is a vote for Neo-Fascist group whose only ultimate political strategy is to put the opposition…who will be in enormous numbers…into concentration camps. Before you scoff and cry conspiracy nut, look at it logically. Citizens United makes it possible…it has already happened…for billionaires to elect [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Koch brothers·Neo-Fascist Republicans·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·political coup of the billionaires·Right Wing Propaganda·Right Wing takeover of government·secret meeting of billionaires
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
November 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes, The Budget
We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very minimum we need net exports. But we don’t have them. We have net imports. Here’s the problem. In 1993, we signed into law the North Amreican Free Trade Agreement. It broke [...]
Tags: Corporate Greed·free trade fallacies·imports from China·making things in China·Smoot-Hawley and its effect on the Great Depression·tariffs·tariffs to create jobs·the China game·The Greed of the Very Rich·trade deficits
The Post Office and Republican Treachery
September 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Economics, Human Rights, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Do you have a utility bill or a credit card bill that’s going to cost you extra if you don’t get it there on time? It costs you that because businesses like utilities and financial institutions make part of their income by doing things on time. You are asked, even warned, to make your payment [...]
Tags: Darryl Issa wants to close the Post Office·Neocons privatizing the post office·Republicans fighting unions·Republicans want to bring down the post office
The Massacre of the Middle Class
May 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism
In 2010, Americans were actually called upon to vote whether or not they would like to create an oligarchy, a ruling elite, that would remove all political power from the average citizen. In some states they voted to do it. Now some are saying that they made a mistake and want a do-over. In Wisconsin, [...]
Tags: Fascists·Neocon-Fascists·Neocons·Republican governors·Republican Right Wing lies·the characteristics of Fascism
The Catastrophic Failure of the American Spirit
May 1st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Human Rights, Politics
Today is one of the saddest days in the history of the American Republic. Americans proved that they have failed in maintaining the spirit of communal support that built this country. We have clearly failed when tested. The Rich have taken control, just as Jefferson and Adams and George Washington feared could happen. Democrats in [...]
Tags: greed·lobbyists·political propaganda·Right Wing Propaganda·the American Spirit·the American voter·the lessons of history·The Super-Rich·wars
On Nazis, Fascists, Neocons and Republican Governors
April 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Labor, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Often in blog posts on the Internet, especially heated political arguments, people start slinging around the term “Nazi,” particularly in discussions of Neoconservative Republicans. Neocons are not “Nazis.” They are in fact “Fascists.” A fascist is one who combines the power of industry, government and the military into totalitarian…total…political control. The Nazis were a Fascist-leaning [...]
Tags: attacks on collective bargaining·attacks on labor unions·Fascist Neoconservative tactics·John Kasich·Neocon governors·Neoconservative Republicans·Republican governors·Rick Scott·Rick Snyder·Scott Walker
Neocon Scare Tactics on Solvent Social Security
March 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Politics
Let’s start with a couple of important facts. If we did not have Social Security, virtually every other retired person today would be in deep poverty, even–one might say–begging on the streets. Compared with 1959, when about 35% of those of retirement age were in deep poverty, today only 9% of Americans fall into that [...]
Tags: cuts to Social Security·Neon plans to drain social security·Republican plans to cut Social Security·Social Security
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting