Author: craigshields

What do you notice about the shopping bag in the photo? It has no handles. That’s right, Albertson’s, with annual revenues of more than $83 billion, has decided to inconvenience its customers, forcing them to wrap both of their arms …

Huge Corporations Are Slapping Their Customers in the Face Read More »

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What Krishnamurti says at left reminds us of the direction that essentially everything takes in human civilization.  What once was pure eventually becomes adulterated and ultimately monetized. The most egregious example of this is how the wealthiest human beings on …

The Course Toward Authoritarianism Read More »

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It’s great to see the ongoing protests against the criminality of the Trump administration.  

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At left we see the words of the Premier of British Columbia, expressing his sorrow for the incredible pace at which the United States has destroyed its relationships with its allies. Of course, this is no big deal to Trump …

It Took Centuries for the U.S. to Build Its International Friendships, but Just 18 Months for Trump to Destroy Them Read More »

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It’s easy to blame Trump for his lies and criminality. It’s harder to accept the fact that many of the people of the United States are willing to believe essentially anything, regardless of how preposterous, that comes out of the …

We Deserve Exactly What We’re Getting Read More »

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The Republicans seem to have coalesced around the anti-communism/socialism narrative, setting aside all other messaging re: the economy, affordable groceries and gasoline, jobs, allowing Iran to build a nuclear weapon, etc. We’ll have to wait and see how this plays …

Will the Democrats Destroy the United States? Read More »

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I encourage readers to check out this tongue-in-cheek ad for plant-based meat. There is a maxim in marketing warning against “promoting the enemy line,” this is so clever, I can see where it could be quite effective.  

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As we all know, the GOP will stop at nothing to win the midterms, thus making it impossible to remove the sociopathic criminal from the White House. But did any of us see this coming? Macabre.    

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I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives. As it …

A Profile in Corporate Greed Read More »

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Trump should fire Pete Hegseth? Why?  If you’re Trump, Hegseth is the perfect leader of the Pentagon.  He’s loyal, lawless, stupid, cruel, misogynistic, and racist.  No one could possibly match Trump’s values with any greater precision.  

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