What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism
A look at who is being deported and who is being ushered in shows that what’s happening is a trading out of people for exploitable workers. And fighting back just got harder with Trump’s new security directive.
Read more...The Milton Friedman Question
A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.
Read more...Trump Again Applies His Tariff Wrecking Ball to US Citizens and Businesses with 100% Levy on Imported Patented Drugs, 25% on Imported Trucks, 30% to 50% on Furnishings
Trump is again deploying his tariff weapon, mainly at hapless American patients and consumers….and Indian drugmakers.
Read more...Masters and Minions and Muppets, Oh My!
Time for muppets to develop class consciousness and unite.
Read more...AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments
The Trump Administration plans to launch a new war against citizens, here via a pilot scheme to use AI to cut Medicare services.
Read more...The Karl Marx Question
Karl Marx has aged well. What happens if you take his analysis seriously?
Read more...Trump UK State Visit Demonstrates That the Power Elite Has Drawn Up the Drawbridge Over Safety Fears
The handling of Trump’s UK state visit confirms elite insecurity and safety fears. Like many Trump and UK/EU moves, crackdowns may backfire
Read more...Quelle Surprise! CEOs Overwhelmingly Negative on Trump’s Economic Policies as Shallow Fed Rate Cut Confirms Stagflation Worries
Even a bastion of Republican support, CEOs, has soured on Trump’s economic policies, as the damage to regular citizens mounts.
Read more...Prison Labor: The Last Stronghold of Slavery in the US
Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labor. It’s time to finish abolition
Read more...How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
How student loans became a vehicle for higher educational profiteering and exploitation of students.
Read more...Trump Followers Promote Authoritarian, Hostile-to-Downtrodden Version of Christianity
How Christianity is being manipulated by Trump allies to demonize the poors and support aggressive law enforcement
Read more...More Trump Administration Circular Firing Squad with Investor-Spooking ICE Raid on Hyundai-LG Plant
The fallout from the ICE raid on a Georgia Hyundai -LG startup looks to be serious.
Read more...Is Europe Preparing for War Against Russia or Against Own Populations?
Population control toys aren’t all that useful on the Eurasian Steppe.
Read more...Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?
Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.
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