Articles by Mark Taylor

ALL ARTICLES, Media Hits & Misses May 4, 2020

Starving The Watchdogs: The Real Cost Of Disappearing Newspapers Is Counted In Far More Than Dollars

  Hidden Brain (4/27/20) The value of local newspapers can hardly be overstated right now. We read our local papers to track the spread of COVID-19 in our states, and the availability of ICU beds at nearby hospitals. We read to get a sense of how nearby businesses are faring, and what nursing homes are doing to keep residents safe. More of us are reading more news all the time. But at the same time that readership is soaring, advertising revenue—which keeps newspapers financially afloat—is plummeting. As a result, a number of newspapers across the country are laying off workers, even…

ALL ARTICLES, Media Hits & Misses May 4, 2020

‘On The Media’ — Open Season On Truth

On The Media (5/1/120) Pressure is mounting for journalists to cover sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden. This week on On the Media, we consider how the Democrats once on the front lines of the #MeToo movement are being forced to answer for their presumptive nominee. Plus, fringe groups are calling to reopen the economy early — but what does that even mean? 1. Rebecca Traister [@rtraister], writer-at-large at New York Magazine and The Cut, on who will have to answer for Joe Biden. Listen. 2. Emma Grey Ellis [@EmmaGreyEllis], writer WIRED, on the media’s focus on anti-lockdown protests. Listen. 3. Timothy Mitchell, historian and political theorist at Columbia University, on how our understanding of “the economy” came…

ALL ARTICLES May 4, 2020

Code Blue America: Viral Fear & Failure In Trump’s America

  “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone” — Blaise Pascal, 17th century scientist/philosopher ***** Trump is not a pandemic ‘unity’ leader; Trump is the ‘blame’ and discord leader. By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (5/4/20) Dear Fellow Readers, Does anyone else feel like this moment in our pandemic history is an inflection point? Ready or not, there is movement to relax restrictions and depending on where you live, maybe even a new air of casualness. With that, we will learn in a relatively short period of time whether we’ve rushed a decision…

ALL ARTICLES May 4, 2020

University Of Minnesota Report: COVID-19 Cases Could Surge In Fall & Last 2 Years

“We are learning how to die with this virus and we have to learn how to live with it.” — Michael Osterholm, nationally renowned University of Minnesota epidemiologist and author of “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Deadly Germs”. By Glenn Howat Minneapolis Star Tribune (5/1/20) The growing COVID-19 pandemic could last up to two years, with a potential second wave in the fall, according to nationally renowned University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm and a team of researchers. The exact path the disease will take is unclear, but with no vaccine and a global population that had no immunity to…

ALL ARTICLES May 4, 2020

Covid’s Silent Numbers & America, The Failed State

  Skullduggery (4/30/20) Northeastern University College of Science’s Dr. Alessandro Vespignani & The Atlantic’s George Packer join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on “Skullduggery.” First, the Dr. fleshes out his recently published coronavirus model that shows there was an undetected silent chain of transmission early on resulting in the potential number of cases actually being 10x greater. Then, Packer, explains why America is fast resembling a failed state. Link To 74-Minute Audio  

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change, History They Don't Want You To Know May 4, 2020

Author Paul Ehrlich Looks Back On The 50 Years Since Publication Of His Book ‘The Population Bomb

  The world population has doubled since publication in 1968. Climate One (2018) In 1968, the best-seller “The Population Bomb,” written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich (but credited solely to Paul) warned of the perils of overpopulation: mass starvation, societal upheaval, environmental deterioration. The book was criticized at the time for painting an overly dark picture of the future. But while not all of the Ehrlich’s dire predictions have come to pass, the world’s population has doubled since then, to over seven billion, straining the planet’s resources and heating up our climate. Can the earth continue to support an ever-increasing…

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ALL ARTICLES, Progressive History May 4, 2020

Veteran Labor Organizer Jane F. McAlevey On The Bipartisan War Against Workers

  “Corporations had to manipulate the process to attack the public sector in similarly clever but different ways from when they set out to destroy the private-sector unions. They sought to offshore the most heavily unionized jobs in the 1970s as they increased spending to fight unions workplace by workplace. Today, driven by Silicon Valley, they are weaponizing technology, using AI and robots not only to help rid the country of the remaining unions but—hell—to eliminate the need for workers at all.” ― Jane F. McAlevey, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy ***** Jane McAlevey: Many Strikes Are…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans May 4, 2020

Think Twice Before Accepting An Invitation To Dinner From This Whack Job Republican Hero

“I’ll admit it. I will eat my neighbors. I won’t have to for a few years ’cause I got food and stuff ― but I’m literally looking at my neighbors now and going, ’I’m ready to hang ’em up and gut ’em and skin ’em. My daughters aren’t starving to death. I will eat my neighbors. … I will. “You think I like sizing up my neighbor?! I’m gonna haul him up by a chain and chop his ass up! I’ll do it! My children aren’t going hungry! I’ll eat your ass! And that’s what I want the globalists to know…

ALL ARTICLES May 4, 2020

A Commoner Writes: This Is No Time For Focusing On Biden’s Weaknesses

Donald J Trump = Adolph Hitler Joe Biden = Bill Clinton/Ron Kind I’m no fan of Joe Biden. He represents the status quo and corporate control of government. If it wasn’t for trying to win over Sanders voters he would be running the exact kind of campaign that Hillary ran (if there was a campaign at this point). But Trump is the most dangerous demagogue that has ever held the presidency, at least in the last hundred years. If he wins again, and if God forbid the Republicans control both chambers of the Congress, and continue to control the Supreme…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, FEATURE, M. Taylor Columns, Progressive History April 30, 2020

The One Simple Question Joe Biden’s ‘Sunshine Progressive’ Supporters Simply Can’t Answer

Hell, even Bernie can’t answer the question. By Mark L. Taylor The Commoner Call (4/30/20) No doubt, Facebook is one of the oddest gathering spots to be found in modern American culture. While some of the postings popping into your day can be entertaining, amusingly distracting, sometimes informative and frequently obtuse, the political flow of Facebook postings rises and falls with the tides and gurglings of the political moment with varying degrees of sanity and inanity. Occasionally, there can be informative and even constructive political dialog on the various ‘progressive’ Facebook pages I follow on a regular basis. Too often,…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Economic Injustice, One Percenters, Police State America April 30, 2020

Viral Injustice: How The Pandemic Is Unmasking The U.S Economic, Racist & Immigration Systems

  America Unmasked By Jeremy Scahill Intercepted (4/29/20) THE U.S. HAS now surpassed a million confirmed Covid-19 cases and is nearing a death toll of 60,000. This week on Intercepted: While the statistics are grim, the harsh reality is how the Trump administration — as well as some governors and mayors — handled this crisis made the situation much more deadly than it should have been. New York Magazine writer Zak Cheney-Rice discusses how the economic, social, racial, and gender injustices that predate this pandemic have impacted the most vulnerable people in the United States. He also discusses Trump’s incompetence, Joe…

ALL ARTICLES April 30, 2020

Tara Reade Says Joe Biden Sexually Assaulted Her. She Deserves To Be Heard

“…an unpalatable situation”  By Andrea Germanos Common Dreams (4/28/20) Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing a growing demand to address the credible sexual assault allegation made by former Senate staffer Tara Reade as the Democratic Party itself faces accusations of hypocrisy in terms of the #MeToo movement. “We have reached a point where it is journalistic malpractice for anyone interviewing Biden to refuse to ask him about Tara Reade’s allegations, the mounting supporting evidence in her case and the numerous other allegations of his misconduct toward women,” author and The Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill tweeted on Tuesday. The increased pressure on Biden and his party comes…

ALL ARTICLES April 30, 2020

Code Blue America: Trump Keeps Breaking Records, And Torching Any Last Scraps Of Credibility

“Like his most recent Republican predecessor, President Trump ignored intelligence reports—which he never reads anyway—and it has cost us dearly.” — Jack Holmes, Esquire magazine (4/28/20)  By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (4/30/20) Dear Fellow Readers, Trump and COVID-19 – how many ways can you say shit-show? We have passed two milestones – over one million  US confirmed cases and over 60,000 US deaths. More Americans have died in two months than the 58,200 Americans who died during two decades of war in Vietnam. For this, Trump gives himself a ten-out-of-ten mark while telling us ‘nobody’ could have foreseen the…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care April 30, 2020

Father Of Late ER Doctor Who Died By Suicide Says She ‘just ran out of steam’

“She was like the fireman who runs into the burning building to save another life and doesn’t regard anything about herself. So she has paid the price. She has been in the trenches.” CNN (4/28/20) The father of Dr. Lorna Breen, a New York City emergency room doctor who recovered from Covid-19, continued to treat coronavirus patients, then died by suicide, remembers his daughter as someone who put her life on the line to help others. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). Link To 9-Minute Video (Commoner Call photo, 2020. Open source and free for non-derivative use with…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change, FEATURE, Health Care April 30, 2020

To Stop Even Worse Pandemics, We Must Stop Destruction Of Nature

“The health of people is intimately connected to the health of wildlife, the health of livestock and the health of the environment. It’s actually one health.” By Damian Carrington The Guardian (4/27/20) The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be followed by even more deadly and destructive disease outbreaks unless their root cause – the rampant destruction of the natural world – is rapidly halted, the world’s leading biodiversity experts have warned. “There is a single species responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic – us,” they said. “Recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity, particularly our global financial and economic systems…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care, History They Don't Want You To Know April 30, 2020

Lockdown Protests Echo The Anti-Mask League During 1918 Pandemic

  “The protests back in 1918 and 1919 were organized. That sort of distrust of experts, distrust of the government’s point of view was very strong.” By Peter Lawrence Kane The Guardian (4/29/20) San Francisco seems to have done a good job of flattening the coronavirus curve. Initially perceived as an overreaction, the shelter-in-place order issued on 16 March now seems prudent in light of the sustained public health crisis that New York has endured. San Francisco has seen roughly 1,450 confirmed coronavirus cases and 23 deaths but the city wasn’t always so good at heeding the advice of experts. A century ago,…

ALL ARTICLES April 30, 2020

TODAY! Show Support For Workers Getting The Help & Protection They Deserve

Today, May 1st, we will stand in solidarity with all workers and demand that their basic needs be met. Our Wisconsin Revolution (4/28/20) In keeping with social distancing protocol, we will not physically congregate. Instead, we will meet at the Madison Labor Temple, assemble a vehicle caravan, and drive around the Capitol to make sure our leaders hear our demands: 1) Emergency relief funds for working people, including undocumented workers 2) BadgerCare for all 3) Hazard Pay & PPE for all essential workers 4) Minimum 2-month freeze on the payment of rent, residential mortgages, and utility bills (including sanitation, power, water, gas,…

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE, Health Care, Rethuglicans, Trumpenstan April 30, 2020

Brutal New Ad Thumps Trump For Making ‘America first’ — In COVID-19 Deaths

  By Brad Reed Raw Story (4/28/20) A brutal new advertisement from pro-Democrat super PAC Priorities USA takes President Donald Trump’s slogan of “America first” and throws it right back in his face. “Donald Trump said he would put America first, and now he has,” the ad begins. “The United States leads the world in coronavirus cases. More than 50,000 Americans dead, twice as many deaths as any other country. Over 26 million people have lost their jobs, and it’s only getting worse.” … Read The Rest And 30-Second Video (Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2020. Open source…

ALL ARTICLES, Quotes April 30, 2020

Notably Quotable: “Okay, for all you students out there, kids doing class on Zoom, tell your teachers you can take the test but…”

“Okay, for all you students out there, kids doing class on Zoom, tell your teachers you can take the test but you just can’t complete the test, and the vice president says so, but you still want full credit for it.” — Mika Brzezinski, ‘Blithering idiocy’: MSNBC’s Morning Joe rains hell on Mike Pence’s ‘ridiculous’ claims about COVID-19 testing ***** “If you’re an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to, that’s a voluntary quit. Therefore, they would not be eligible for the unemployment money.”  — Gov. Kim Reynolds, Republican Iowa governor. *****…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Economic Injustice, One Percenters April 27, 2020

Freeloading CEOs, Not The Unemployed, Are America’s True ‘moral hazard’

Many Republicans believe economic relief for those without jobs encourages slacking off. But it is grifting corporations that are bailed out again and again. By Robert Reich The Guardian (4/20/20) The coronavirus relief enacted by Congress is barely reaching Americans in need. This week, checks of up to $1,200 are being delivered through direct-deposit filings with the Internal Revenue Service. But low-income people who have not directly deposited their taxes won’t get them for weeks or months. Worse yet, the US treasury is allowing banks to seize payments to satisfy outstanding debts. Meanwhile, most of the promised $600 weekly extra unemployment benefits remain stuck in offices…

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ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Democrats, Economic Injustice, One Percenters, Resist!, Rethuglicans April 27, 2020

‘I struck a nerve’: The Comedian Whose Rant Against Bipartisan Congressional Bailouts Of Corporations & Bilionaires Went Viral

  “That video isn’t an act, that’s coming from the heart and soul. It resonated with working people because we have no voice in this country.” By Poppy Noor The Guardian (4/24/20) Vic DiBitetto is a performer, so he’s used to drawing in big crowd – but he didn’t quite expect that a recent video he made would be viewed over 10m times. The near five-minute rant about the government’s response to the coronavirus shows DiBitetto, a New Yorker, enunciating so much that spit flies around him in the car. His face is red and he barely finishes a sentence…

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition April 27, 2020

If Ever There Were A Reason To Nationalize The Banks: Banks Snatched An Easy $10 Billion In 2 Weeks

The banks scam huge profits processing small businesses loans backed by the government. By Julian Kossoff Portside (4/25/20) US banks earned $10 billion in two weeks processing the loans from the government scheme to protect small businesses from financial ruin during the coronavirus crisis, according to an NPR report. The rescue plan worth $349 billion offered businesses loans of up to $10 million to thousands of US companies and were guaranteed by the federal Small Business Administration. The banks charged a transaction fee of 5% on loans worth less than $350,000, while on loans worth between $2 million – $10 million, the…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, Economic Injustice, M. Taylor Columns, One Percenters, Resist!, Rethuglicans April 27, 2020

The Brutal Bipartisan Betrayal — If You Are Not In The 1% Or A Major Corporation Do Not Expect Any Meaningful Help From Congress

No meaningful care will come from congress or the White House. [Editor’s Note: The following is commentary I made in the April 24 broadcast of the ‘Month In Review’ on the community-supported radio station WDRT. In the face of a frightening public health emergency, both Republicans and Democrats have — for all practical purposes — abandoned the people. — Mark L. Taylor] By Mark L. Taylor The Commoner Call (4/27/20) One positive thing the pandemic has done is it has stripped bare the inequity and corruption of  both political parties and made clear the job of the government is not…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, Progressive History, Resist! April 27, 2020

Martin Luther King On Dithering White Liberal Centrists

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree…

ALL ARTICLES April 27, 2020

Code Blue America: The Ever-Changing Profile Of Our Enemy

“There is laughter in Hell.” — Psychotherapist Esther Perel, We’re All Grieving. This Is How We Get Through It. *****   “Please do not ingest or inject disinfectant. I feel like one should not have to say this.” — John Shields, MD, FAAO after Trump ‘riffs’ on injecting disinfectant to cleanse coronavirus from an infected person. By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (4/27/20) Dear Fellow Readers, Imagine a medical professional cautioning the public to not ingest or inject disinfectant in response to a message from the president of the United States. By any standard 2nd world and 3rd world countries must…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats April 27, 2020

Nina Turner: If Dems Hope To Win In 2020, They Must Address The Pandemic Of American Life And Offer Vision

“You need some excitement. I mean, these are heavy and hard times. They have been for a long time, the pandemic is just bringing it to the fore. But if you talk to people who have been suffering in this country for years. They have been enduring a different kind of pandemic: Its called ‘life’. “Life that happens when you are black. Life that happens when you are brown. Life that happens when you are indigenous. Life that happens when you are poor. They’ve been enduring a kind of pandemic. “To get people to vote, I have a news flash:…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Economic Injustice, History They Don't Want You To Know, One Percenters April 27, 2020

Meet The Economist Behind The One Percent’s Stealthy Overthrow Of America

    The Holy Grail was the Constitution: alter it and you could increase and secure the power of the wealthy in a way that no politician could ever challenge. By Lynn Parramore Institute For New Economic Thinking (5/30/18) Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped America’s burst of radical right-wing attacks on working conditions, consumer rights and public services, and they will typically mention figures like free market-champion Milton Friedman, libertarian guru Ayn Rand, and laissez-faire economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats April 27, 2020

NPR Reporter Exposes How Corporate Dem Mike Bloomberg Covered Up Investigation Of Chinese Government Corruption

  Rising / The Hill (4/24/20) NPR correspondent David Folkenflik shares in-depth reporting on Mike Bloomberg’s decision to kill an investigation into the wealth of Communist Party elites in China. Link To 9-Minute Video ***** Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife By David Folkenflik NPR (4/14/20) Michael Bloomberg’s short-lived presidential bid reignited a long-simmering dispute over the widespread use of nondisclosure agreements at American corporations — especially at his own. His namesake company, Bloomberg LP, has used nondisclosure agreements broadly to conceal allegations and silence complaints from employees of sexual harassment or a hostile…

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE, Health Care April 27, 2020

Author Gerald Posner: How Republicans & Democrats Have Ensured Big Pharma Profits Off The Misery & Death Of Coronavirus

Rising/The Hill (4/23/20) Author of, ‘PHARMA: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America,’ Gerald Posner explains how Pharma lobbies Democrats and Republicans to influence coronavirus relief bills, and profit from the crisis. Link To 10-Minute Video (Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2017. Open source and free for non-derivative use with link to www.thecommonercall.org )  

ALL ARTICLES April 27, 2020

Is Big Oil Finally Getting Stranded?

Just Have A Think (4/26/20) Thanks to Russia and Saudi Arabia, global oil production has not decreased in reaction to the abrupt halt in our economies. That means all the pipelines, all the oil tankers, all the refineries and all the storage facilities are full to capacity with a commodity that nobody can use right now. Oil producers large and small are haemorrhaging money in a way that is genuinely threatening to their existence, and people are learning how to work from home in a way that may mean we choose to travel far less when the pandemic finally ends….

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ALL ARTICLES April 27, 2020

Stoicism: How The Ancient Wisdom Of Marcus Aurelius During A Time Of Ancient Pandemic Can Help

By Donald Robertson The Guardian (4/25/20) The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the last famous Stoic philosopher of antiquity. During the last 14 years of his life he faced one of the worst plagues in European history. The Antonine Plague, named after him, was probably caused by a strain of the smallpox virus. It’s estimated to have killed up to 5 million people, possibly including Marcus himself. From AD166 to around AD180, repeated outbreaks occurred throughout the known world. Roman historians describe the legions being devastated, and entire towns and villages being depopulated and going to ruin. Rome itself…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans, Ron "RoJo" Johnson, Trumpenstan April 23, 2020

The President Is Mentally Unwell — And Everyone Around Him Knows It

[Editor’s Note: This article has a link to a 1980 Tom Brokow MSNBC interview with Donald Trump in which Trump is extremely well-spoken. He has a wide range of well pronounced vocabulary, speaks in complete sequential sentences and can answer questions directly and succinctly. Compare what you see here to his current degraded mental state. — Mark L. Taylor] By Eric Levitz New York Intelligencer (1/4/18) Until recently, the debate over our president’s mental health has focused on questions of psychological pathology: Do Donald Trump’s flamboyant narcissism, hedonism, and self-delusions add up to a malignant personality — or a malignant personality disorder?…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Economic Injustice, Rethuglicans April 23, 2020

PSST, Here’s The Plan: Save Capital & Let The People Die

  Whether Americans know it or not, their government is not working for them. By Hamilton Nolan In These Times (4/6/20) Fantasize for a moment that we could set aside politics and operate based upon common sense. What would the federal government do to best mitigate the devastation that this pandemic will visit upon human beings? It would, first of all, provide free healthcare to everyone. It would distribute medical resources nationally based on the greatest need. Then, to protect people from the necessary economic deep freeze we are all in due to social distancing, the government would pursue measures…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Economic Injustice, Mike McCabe for Gov April 23, 2020

Mike McCabe: A Nation In Distress & Crippled By Corporatocracy

It all comes down to sovereignty—the question of who rules. By Mike McCabe Our Wisconsin Revolution (4/20/20) Our nation’s founders were racist, sexist, elitist and quite a few other ists. Some more than others. But they had something else in common. They hated being under the King of England’s thumb. At the time, monarchs were thought to have a divine right to rule, a mandate from heaven. To think otherwise was to deny providence. Rather than continuing to submit to royal decrees, the founders chose to deny providence. These slaveholding aristocrats did a radical, revolutionary, heretical thing. They redefined the…

ALL ARTICLES April 23, 2020

Code Blue America: Multiple Faces Of COVID-19 Emerges Day By Day

  “Trump has shown himself to be a dangerous pathogen.” — Garry Kasparov, Renew Democracy Initiative chairman By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (4/24/20) Dear Fellow Readers, The immediate crisis with COVID-19 is being won. No, I am not advocating for returning to pre-COVID-19 ‘business as usual’. In fact I will end today with a perspective of what we can expect over time. Let’s start with new learning re: COVID-19. As we are flattening a first curve more attention is turning to testing of antibodies. A good starting point, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains antibodies, testing…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care April 23, 2020

A Madison Nurse Speaks Out: In A Time Of Pandemic, This Is What REAL Patriotism Looks Like

By putting themselves in harm’s way, they are thoughtlessly dragging ME and my fellow front-line workers into harm’s way, too. “Y’all, as a nurse working in a COVID unit, these protests are the most demoralizing thing to happen throughout this whole damn experience. Yes, it’s been gut-wrenching watching patients struggle for breath while unable to see their loved ones. Yes, it’s been scary wondering if our dwindling supply of protective gear will last, and if the flimsy barrier masks are even adequate to protect us. Yes, it’s been hard knowing that, because of my work, I will have to self-isolate…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, History They Don't Want You To Know, Rethuglicans, Trumpenstan April 23, 2020

Trump Is No Aberration. He’s The Logical Product Of A Bipartisan Failed State

  “Donald Trump’s presidency is not an aberration of U.S. history in substance. His rise to power and the policies he has implemented are, in many ways, the logical product of the U.S. as a failed state, politically and functionally. Trump says the quiet parts about the system out loud, but his agenda is firmly rooted in the bloody history of this republic. And his rise was made possible by the failed two-party system and the corporate dominance of electoral politics in the U.S. Also, let’s not pretend that congressional Democrats have not enabled Trump by regularly voting for his obscene…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice April 23, 2020

Billionaire Investor: “Why I argued billionaires, speculators should get wiped out.”

Now mind you, the congressional democrats signed off on this as well. The Rising / The Hill (4/17/20) Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital gives insight on how Congress should approach the bailout bills, after his CNBC interview went viral. Link To 9+-Minute Video (Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2020. Open source and free non-derivative use with link to www.thecommoner.call )  

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE, Russia Monitor April 23, 2020

GOP-Led Senate Intel Committee Issues Unanimous New Report Destroying Trump’s Claims: Russia Interfered To Help Trump

  By David Badash Raw Story (4/21/20) The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday quietly released a new report supporting the Intelligence Community’s position and report that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help Donald Trump win the White House. The committee is led by Republicans, including Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC). The report, its fourth, was bipartisan and unanimous. The Committee reports that the December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment delivered “a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference,” and “reflects strong tradecraft.” President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied to the American people about what he falsely…