If workers can be replaced with AI, or a variety of other technologies, what’s the incentive for CEOs and their corporations’ investors to keep labor alive? In this less than one-minute video, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich argues that unemployed, …
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Do Extremely Profitable Corporations Honestly Care About the Displacement of American Workers?
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Working Class Republicans Consistently Make Matters Worse for Themselves
One of the great mysteries of American politics is why the people who are in the greatest need of good jobs, quality education, and free healthcare vote for people who ensure that their constituents will continue to live miserable lives.
Trump’s Accusations Are Quite Revealing
If there is anything we’ve learned from watching Trump in action over the eight years since he came on the American political scene, it’s that he always accuses his enemies of the precise set of crimes of which he himself …
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Bill Barr: Donald Trump Will Always Put His Interests Ahead of the Country’s
I guess there are people who are impressed with Bill Barr’s integrity, now that he’s starting to tell the truth about Trump. During the years Barr was Trump’s attorney general, he looked the other way while his boss was desperately …
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What’s Truly Important
Kudos to cartoonist “Emmerson” whose work appears below. We do indeed have a twisted sense of priorities. Most Americans are aware of climate change and other elements of environmental collapse, but we’re a) stressed about near-term aspects of our lives, …
Another Energy Lie
Here’s a company that claims it enables its customer to reduce emissions associated with heating their homes by 90%. The concept is the operation of a heat pump with off-peak (cheap) electricity, and the distribution of that heat to the …
Mark Twain’s Advice Should Not Be Taken Lightly, But …
It’s never a good idea to dismiss something Mark Twain said out of hand. Yet the majority of Americans are on the right side of most political issues. We want common sense gun laws, quality education, women’s rights, universal healthcare, …
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Chris Christie Calls Trump a ‘Liar and Coward’
Why don’t you call him a rapscallion or a rogue? Trump’s a supremely talented criminal, who cheated his way to the very top. Many aspire; he achieved. He brought our country to its knees. Why doesn’t Christie call him a …
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Predictably, Nevada Pulls Out of the U.S. Climate Alliance
From this: Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo has withdrawn the state of Nevada from the U.S. Climate Alliance, the national coalition aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The alliance is made up of 25 governors across the country working to advance …
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Fox News Admitted It Lied About the 2020 Election: What That Means
I would submit that the typical Fox News viewer is in a position far worse than cult membership. I’m hardly an expert on the subject, but I don’t believe cult leaders ever admit that they lied.
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