Articles by Mark Taylor

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, Democrats, Documentaries, History They Don't Want You To Know, Progressive History February 21, 2019

Eugene V. Debs And The Enduring History & Essential Role Of American Socialism

Socialism has been carried into the twenty-first century by way of Sanders, a Debs disciple, and by way of the utter failure of the two-party system. By Jill Lepore The New Yorker (2/17/19) Eugene Victor Debs left school at the age of fourteen, to scrape paint and grease off the cars of the Vandalia Railroad, in Indiana, for fifty cents a day. He got a raise when he was promoted to fireman, which meant working in the locomotive next to the engineer, shovelling coal into a firebox—as much as two tons an hour, sixteen hours a day, six days a…

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, Democrats February 21, 2019

Robert Reich: Why Nation Owes Bernie Sanders Our Enduring Gratitude

  By Robert Reich Common Dreams (2/19/19) It’s easy to forget the condescension and amusement that greeted him when he announced his first campaign for president, on May 26, 2015. How, it was asked, could a rumpled, 73-year-old, self-described Democratic Socialist – a junior senator from tiny Vermont, who was born in Brooklyn, Jewish, hadn’t even been a Democrat for most of his political career, and eschewed money from super PACs – possibly triumph against Hillary Clinton? In the end, he didn’t. But he triumphed in other ways. Bernie won a surprising 46 percent of the pledged delegates to the…

ALL ARTICLES, Media Hits & Misses, Screwing With Your Vote February 21, 2019

‘Operation Divide The Left’: Analysis Shows 2020 Online Disinformation Campaign Already Well Underway

“As it relates to information warfare in the 2020 cycle, we’re not on the verge of it—we’re already in the third inning.” By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams (2/20/19) As the pool of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president continues to grow, so does a “sustained and ongoing” push to spread lies about them on social media—with one key aim being to sow division among progressive voters—according to an alarming Politico report published Wednesday. Citing analyses by and conversations with data scientists and digital campaign strategists, the outlet reported: “Researchers and others interviewed for this story say they cannot conclusively point to the actors behind…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Trumpenstan February 21, 2019

A Mussolini In The Making: An American Fascist Coup That Really Could Succeed

  By Mort Rosenblum Reader Supported News (2/19/19) TUCSON, Arizona – Donald Trump’s Wall is illusory, but the writing on it seems clear enough. He is plotting a coup d’etat, gambling that divided Democrats, media sycophants, big money and people who don’t vote will enable his cult to make him a modern-day Mussolini. Trump might watch next year’s elections play out as a disgraced has-been on the sidelines, perhaps behind bars, as Elizabeth Warren predicts. But that is a wishful long shot. If he is re-elected, America will find itself tested to a degree that is hard to imagine. I’ve…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know February 21, 2019

Learning The Brutal Truth & Legacy About My ‘hero’ Grandfather

  Outlook / BBC Growing up in the United States, Silvia Foti couldn’t have been more proud of her Lithuanian heritage, in particular her grandfather. She’d been told that he was seen as a war hero and that he’d been executed at the age of 37 for standing up to the Soviet regime and trying to lead a rebellion against their occupation of Lithuania. Silvia tells Emily Webb how a chance conversation on a trip to Lithuania made her question everything she’d learnt about her past. Link to Story and 23-Minute Audio

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ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, Resist!, Resistance Tunes February 21, 2019

The Story Behind One Of The Iconic Protest Songs

By Danny Hajek Morning Edition / NPR (2/20/19) It was February 1967, and 18-year-old Marine private first class Bill Ehrhart was days away from leaving for Vietnam. He had just enjoyed his last weekend off-base, and his friends had offered to drive him back to Camp Pendleton, Calif., before sunrise. “It was goodbye civilian world, next stop Vietnam,” says Ehrhart, now a writer and poet. “These were not friendly neighborhood cops in a blue uniform. These were patrolmen with helmets and great big jackboots and billy clubs. It was kind of a scary scene in the midst of all that…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor February 21, 2019

Russia Monitor: Relax Don’t Worry, Trump’s Top Security Adviser, Vladimir Putin, Is Just A Phone Call Away

  “It’s increasingly likely that, in the end, the only question will be whether Donald Trump has been a WITTING or UNWITTING Russian asset.” — Dem Coalition Chair Jon Cooper tweet (2/20/19)   By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (2/21/19) Dear Fellow Readers, It is tempting to follow Trump’s trail of chaos as if that is the big news. To their credit, NBC News offers a good case for this: Ethically Challenged: Three Scandals Rock Trump Administration In One Day. NBC News freely acknowledges “it’s hard to keep up with all of the alleged scandals…here’s what we learned in just one day”….

ALL ARTICLES February 21, 2019

Trump Admin’s Secretive Talks To Sell Saudi Arabia Nuclear Technology Spark New Fear Of Arms Race

  Democracy Now! (2/20/19) House Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of moving toward transferring highly sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of U.S. law. Critics say the deal could endanger national security while enriching close allies of President Trump. Saudi Arabia is considering building as many as 16 nuclear power plants by 2030, but many critics fear the kingdom could use the technology to develop nuclear weapons and trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California and Isaac Arnsdorf, a reporter with ProPublica. Arnsdorf first wrote…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, Mike McCabe for Gov, One Percenters February 21, 2019

Mike McCabe: A Curtain Rarely Pulled Back On The Number One Political Issue Nobody Wants To Ask Politicians About

  It’s time to ask the question. By Mike McCabe Blue Jean Nation (2/13/19) While running for governor, I took part in close to 50 candidate forums leading up to Wisconsin’s August 2018 primary election. Some were sponsored by interest groups, others by the media or a party organization. Some focused on a single issue. Education. Economic development. Environmental protection. Criminal justice. Agriculture. Racial equality. Transportation. Energy policy. Other forums covered the waterfront, with questions on a variety of subjects. In all those forums combined, participating candidates were asked well over 200 questions.  Three were about money in politics. Never…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America February 21, 2019

Glenn Greenwald: As Bezos Protests Invasion Of His Privacy, Amazon Builds Global Surveillance State

  Democracy Now! (2/13/19) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is publicly accusing the owner of the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail,” weeks after the paper revealed details about his extramarital affair. Bezos had recently hired a private investigator to determine how the tabloid newspaper obtained private text messages between him and his lover, and whether the paper’s actions were politically motivated. The National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media, Inc., responded to Bezos’s investigation by threatening to publish revealing photos of Bezos if he did not agree to publicly state that the Enquirer’s coverage was not politically motivated or influenced by…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Screwing With Your Vote February 21, 2019

Private Israeli ‘Mossads’ For Hire: “We are looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of where this can go.”

Inside a plot by former intelligence agents to skew American elections, starting with one small-town race. [Editor’s Note: The threat posed to all levels of elections by private intelligence groups and businesses — both foreign and domestic — is real and growing. — Mark L. Taylor] By Adam Entous & Ronan Farrow The New Yorker (2/18/19) One evening in 2016, a twenty-five-year-old community-college student named Alex Gutiérrez was waiting tables at La Piazza Ristorante Italiano, an upscale restaurant in Tulare, in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Gutiérrez spotted Yorai Benzeevi, a physician who ran the local hospital, sitting at a table with Parmod…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans February 18, 2019

So, Republicans, You Want To Follow Trump Over The Cliff And Declare A National Emergency. Really?

***** “So let me get this straight: Declaring Election Day a national holiday would be a ‘power grab,’ but declaring a national emergency over a manufactured crisis is totally fine?” — Robert Reich (2/15/19) ***** “I know the Republicans have some unease about it, no matter what they say. Because if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people. “You want to declare a national emergency, what about the epidemic of gun violence?…

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ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, Economic Injustice, History They Don't Want You To Know February 18, 2019

Rutger Bregman : ‘Utopia for Realists’ And The Convincing Case For A Universal Basic Income

  Amazon Review After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don’t need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn’t be this way-and in some places it isn’t. Rutger Bregman’s TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. His April 2017 talk continues to make the provocative case, detailing the idea’s 500-year history and even its brief success in a forgotten trial in Manitoba in the 1970s. Nearly a million views later, guaranteed basic income is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, Economic Injustice, History They Don't Want You To Know, Rethuglicans February 18, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes Cynical Lobbyist Tricks

  The Young Turks (2/14/19) There’s nothing these people won’t do to influence politicians. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/… “On Wednesday morning, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted a picture of a line of people outside a House committee hearing on marijuana banking.* According to Ocasio-Cortez, the people in the photo are homeless and were paid by lobbyists to hold their places in line. The practice of lobbyists paying people to stand in line for committee meetings is, according to previous reporting, a longtime practice in Washington, DC. In 2009, CNN wrote…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change, Democrats, FEATURE February 18, 2019

The Real Threat To The Green New Deal—And The Planet—Comes From Corporate-Owned Neoliberal Democrats

A party that responds to a challenge of this magnitude with stratagems, political calculations, cynicism, and half measures will not inspire voters; one that leads us toward a literal salvation, will. By John Atcheson Common Dreams (2/16/19) Predictably, Trump came out against the Green New Deal with a bombastic – and ill-informed – rant in a campaign style rally in El Paso. Here’s what he had to say: “I really don’t like their policy of taking away your car, of taking away your airplane rights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ of you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!” Meanwhile,…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change February 18, 2019

The (Un)scientific Method: Courageous Govt. Contract Scientist Who Resisted Censorship Of Climate Report Lost Her Job

  Caffrey said she asked her supervisor at the park service, “Is this because of the climate change stuff?” She said he told her, “I don’t want to answer that.” By Elizabeth Shogren Reveal /Center for Investigative Journalism (2/14/19) For several years, climate change scientist Maria Caffrey led a trailblazing study outlining the risks of rising seas at national parks. After Friday, she’ll be out of a job. Caffrey, who worked under a contract with the National Park Service, resisted efforts by federal officials to remove all references to human causes of climate change in her scientific report. After Reveal…

ALL ARTICLES February 18, 2019

Trump Tax Refund Scam Is Political Payback For Republicans

  They stepped on this rake last year and now it’s hitting them in the face. [Editor’s Note: The cartoon above was done two years ago. Even back then it was obvious to anyone paying attention that paycheck workers would get scammed and screwed by Trump and congressional russpublicans. Earth to Trump voters: You got screwed! — Mark L. Taylor] By Arthur Delaney HuffPost (2/15/19) Republicans boasted all last year that their new tax law boosted paychecks and showered bonuses on several million workers. But now that tax season is upon us, several million Americans are getting a nasty surprise: a…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor February 18, 2019

Russia Monitor: Trump’s ‘No Collusion’ Claims Are On Collision With Growing List Of Facts

“If the GOP fails to stand up to Trump’s unconstitutional act, we will have moved dangerously from a separation of powers, to a mere separation of parties.” — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tweet of CNN clip (2/17/19).   By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (2/18/19) Dear Fellow Readers, We begin the column with a quote from the final paragraph of the federal indictment against Trump pal Roger Stone: “The charges against Stone and Manafort are proof of collusion. Stone’s indictment makes it clear, it’s not just Stone, it’s “and U.S. persons (including the defendant)” and Stone was in contact with “senior…

ALL ARTICLES February 18, 2019

Sifting & Winnowing The Vote Records Of Senate Democrats Running For President

    By Igor Bobic and James O’Malley HuffPost (2/11/190 Five senators have declared bids for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination: Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. At least two more ― Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent ― are expected to join the fray. Although they’ve often voted as a bloc on hot-button issues like Obamacare repeal and President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and Supreme Court appointments, these seven senators have disagreed on a range of other…

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ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know February 18, 2019

Before Black Lung, Union Carbide’s Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds Of Black Workers

In the photo above, dust circles a worker during the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel in 1930. Workers on the project were exposed to toxic levels of silica dust; hundreds ultimately died. (Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.) By Adelina Lancianese NPR (1/20/19) Southern West Virginia is a playground for hikers, cyclists and rock climbers, but in the heart of that lush landscape rests the site of what many consider the worst industrial disaster in American history. Today, from a picturesque overlook on the mountain above, tourists can see the gate of the Hawks Nest Tunnel,…

ALL ARTICLES February 18, 2019

Court Throws Out Energy Transfer’s ‘Racketeering’ Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents

  By Sharon Kelly Desmog Blog (2/14/19) A North Dakota federal judge dismissed Energy Transfer’s racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and all its co-defendants in a sharply worded ruling issued today, finding that the pipeline builder’s allegations fell “far short of what is necessary to establish a [racketeering] claim.” In August 2017, Energy Transfer filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act civil complaint against Greenpeace and other environmental groups who had opposed the company’s Dakota Access pipeline, claiming that the protests had caused $300 million in damages (and requesting three times that amount from the defendants). Today’s ruling flatly rejected Energy Transfer’s claims….

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know February 18, 2019

Time To Get The News

John Muir (Wikipedia). “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine to make money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of me. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” — John Muir, conservationist and Wisconsin native.

ALL ARTICLES, Police State America, Trumpenstan February 14, 2019

‘The US Government Has Scarred My Daughter And Me For Life’: Families Sue Trump Over Deliberate & ‘Inexplicable Cruelty’

Tearing children—often small children—away from their parents in a way that was designed to deliberately inflict emotional trauma. By Julia Conley Common Dreams (2/12/19) Accusing the Trump administration of deliberate and “inexplicable cruelty” perpetrated against them under it’s so-called “zero tolerance” immigration policy, six families have filed suit against the U.S. government for the harm and “lasting trauma” they continue to suffer. In the filing, six mothers described having their children torn away from them, with officials giving them little to no information about where their children were, if they were safe, and when they would be reunited—treatment that the lawyers involved in…

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ALL ARTICLES, Right Wing Religion February 14, 2019

There Is A Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — And Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It

We should thank Omar, the freshman lawmaker, for having the guts to raise this contentious issue. By Mehdi Hasan The Intercept (2/12/19) In 2005,  Steven Rosen, then a senior official with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, sat down for dinner with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, then of the New Yorker. “You see this napkin?” Rosen asked Goldberg. “In twenty-four hours, [AIPAC] could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.” I couldn’t help but be reminded of this anecdote after Rep. Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, was slammed by Democrats and Republicans alike over her suggestion, in a pair of tweets, that U.S….

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, American Socialist Tradition, Economic Injustice, FEATURE, History They Don't Want You To Know, One Percenters February 14, 2019

Trump & Republicans Provide Comfy Socialism For The Rich & Brutish Capitalism For The Rest Of Us

    By Robert Reich RoberReich.com (2/11/19) “America will never be a socialist country,” Donald Trump declared in his State of the Union address. Someone should alert Trump that America is now a hotbed of socialism. But it is socialism for the rich. Everyone else is treated to harsh capitalism. In the conservative mind, socialism means getting something for doing nothing. That pretty much describes the $21bn saved by the nation’s largest banks last year thanks to Trump’s tax cuts, some of which went into massive bonuses for bank executives. On the other hand, more than 4,000 lower-level bank employees got a…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care February 14, 2019

I Wish I’d Had A ‘Late-Term Abortion’ Instead Of Having My Daughter

If I had been allowed the option to choose a ‘late-term abortion,’ would I? Yes. A hundred times over, yes. It would have been a kindness. [Editor’s Note: Anti free choice zealots act as if life is always tidy and orderly. It’s not and their callous calls for eliminating a full range of medical care for women is the height of moralistic arrogance. — Mark L. Taylor] By Dina Zirlott, HuffPost (2/13/19) Warning: Details in this story could be triggering to some readers. I was raped when I was 17 years old. I had a baby when I was 18 years…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know February 14, 2019

Intercepted: The National Security Shadow State & Policy Of Mass Murder Imperialism

    “Donald Trump is good for their dirty business.” Jeremy Scahill Intercepted Podcast / Intercept (2/6/19) DONALD TRUMP RECEIVED big bipartisan applause at his State of the Union. This week on Intercepted: As Trump openly pushed regime change in Venezuela, Democrats cheered him on. Trump also engaged in red-baiting during his speech by warning of the threat of socialism within the borders of the U.S. Jeremy Scahill talks about how economic sanctions are a mass-killing weapon intentionally aimed at the most vulnerable. Indian historian and journalist Vijay Prashad discusses the state of imperialism in the world, the battle for Venezuela, India’s…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor February 14, 2019

Russia Monitor: As Sigmund Freud Knew, Sometimes A Cigar Is … Legal Hell

“I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign. I have no idea.” — Trump TV lawyer Rudi Giuliani interviewed by CNN host Chris Cuomo.    By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (2/14/19) Dear Fellow Readers, The lines are drawn, no more denials about Trump-Russia collusion, it’s now about whether it matters or to whom it matters. A Washington Post poll from Monday shows the majority “trust Mueller’s version of the facts than Trump’s”. While that sounds encouraging you can already anticipate the breakdown. Democrats and Independents align with the summary, but Republicans…

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ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change, FEATURE February 14, 2019

The End Of Ice: Journalist Dahr Jamail On The Climate Disruption Crisis From The Melting Himalayas To Insect Extinction

“The future that we’ve all thought was going to be so much further down the line, or 2100, and catastrophic, it’s already happening now.” Democracy Now! (2/12/19) A new report finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world’s most ambitious environmental reforms are implemented. The report, released by the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment earlier this month, is the culmination of half a decade’s work by over 200 scientists, with an Things are happening. They’re accelerating. And it’s very, very clear where we…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change February 14, 2019

Ambassadors From Our Climate Crisis: 50 Polar Bears Searching For Food Invade Russian Town, Terrifying Residents

    By Carla Baranauckas HuffPost (2/12/19) In what is being called a consequence of climate change, more than 50 polar bears have invaded a Russian settlement in the Arctic, forcing terrified residents to stay in their homes, according to news reports. The settlement, Belushya Guba, is on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago off Russia’s northeast coast and has a population of about 2,500. Officials declared a state of emergency on Saturday after reports of bears attacking people and entering homes, CNN said. “People are scared,” local administrator Alexander Minayev told CNN. “They are frightened to leave homes, and their daily routines…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, History They Don't Want You To Know February 14, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar Nails Criminal Trump Official Elliott Abrams Over His Links To War Crimes

  By Carla Herreria HuffPost (2/13/19) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) homed in on Elliott Abrams’ dubious past when the controversial diplomat testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Abrams is now the special envoy to Venezuela, appointed by President Donald Trump in January. Omar ― who is embroiled in her own controversy over tweets viewed by some as anti-Semitic (she “unequivocally” apologized on Monday) ― questioned how Abrams, who has a history of lying to Congress and abetting war crimes by U.S. allies, could be trusted at all. “I fail to understand why members of this committee or the…

ALL ARTICLES February 14, 2019

Blue Jean Nation: People Powered Summit, Saturday, March 5

Blue Jean Nation will be holding a “People Powered Summit” on Saturday, March 2 in Waupun to showcase the efforts of local chapters around the state and provide opportunities for networking, skill building and idea sharing. We’ll gather at the James C. Laird Museum at 520 McKinley Street in Waupun. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the program starts at 10 and is scheduled to go until 4. Mark the date on your calendar! Registration fee is $20 and includes lunch. Register HERE Questions? Contact Beth via email at beth@bluejeannation.com

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, FEATURE, Rethuglicans, Trumpenstan February 11, 2019

Cry Me A River: While The Top 1% Cash In, Trump Voters Lose It Over Dramatic Hike In Taxes

“People are going to be very, very happy. They’re going to get tremendous, tremendous tax cuts and tax relief and that’s what this country needs.” — Donald Trump (12/2/17) The Young Turks (2/5/19) “Multiple supporters of President Donald Trump over the past couple of weeks have taken to Twitter to air their grievances about the president’s signature tax cut plan. Even though the 2017 GOP tax cut is leading to spiking federal deficits thanks to its generous benefits to corporations, many middle-class Americans are winding up having to pay more because the bill eliminated multiple deductions used by middle-class families…

ALL ARTICLES February 11, 2019

Everybody In, Nobody Out: Momentum For Medicare 4 All Growing

  By Benjamin Day & Mark Dudzic Common Dreams (2/7/19) As the 2019 legislative session in Congress kicks off, the Democratic majority in the House will, in very short order, have to address a national surge of support for Medicare for All (otherwise known as single-payer healthcare). At the close of the last Congress, almost two-thirds of Democratic Representatives had signed onto HR 676, the Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act. They will be joined by the long list of freshman Democrats who ran and won on this issue. Leading the charge in the House will be Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, Economic Injustice, History They Don't Want You To Know, Rethuglicans February 11, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes The Corruption Of DC In 5 Incredible Minutes

  By Mark L. Taylor The Commoner Call (2/11/19) And to think some people — some democrats even — have been saying AOC needs to shut up, sit down and learn from the wise  ‘experienced’ hands in congress. I mean WTH, she’s only 29, what does she know about how congress works? Well, she knows exactly how congress works and nailed those ‘experienced’ hands exposing the rigged game congress has become. And she did it in only 5 minutes of congressional hearings. It’s the old farts in congress — too any of them democrats — who need to shut up,…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, Resistance Tunes February 11, 2019

Love Me, I’m A Liberal

  By Mark L. Taylor The Commoner Call (2/11/19) As we see over and over again, well-intentioned mainstream liberals have rubbery spines. Yes, they want change … but not too much change. Sure they want to see more healthcare, but ‘Medicare 4 All’? Um, well, we can’t ask for that, the insrance companies will never go along with something that radical. Besides, they caution, the republicans would never let us have that so we need to be “practical”, “cautious” and settle for “incremental improvements” … and to hell with those who still won’t have access to healthcare after all that….

ALL ARTICLES February 11, 2019

Over 40% Of US Households Are Only One Paycheck Away From Poverty

Real News Network (2/2/19) Far more households in the US are at risk of joining the ranks of the poor, should they lose their job or face a financial emergency, showing that millions are vulnerable and this number is increasing, says Kasey Wiedrich of Prosperity Now. Link to 10-Minute Video ***** Poverty Isn’t A Lack Of Character; It’s A Lack Of Cash   TED Talk (6/13/17) “Ideas can and do change the world,” says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea’s 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where…