MONEY IS NOT WEALTH
by A. Richard Miller
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On the eve of USA's November 2008 national election, an urgent proposal for an unsecured $700-Billion, maybe $800-Billion loan to mismanaged banks and stockbrokers was generating understandable controversy. In its initial form the Bush Buddies Bailout was one more Weapon of Mass Deception, a (later, a two-step) public welfare program for wealthy people who game the system. But the problem remains.

What, exactly, went - and continues to go - wrong? What ARE reasonable goals, what are NOT, and how might a more populist government reach good ones?

Jill and I searched, asked friends, and found part of the discussion in the mainline U.S. Press. It is dominated by large corporations, and is quickly becoming a large corporation that reports with bias and too-often avoids reporting. We find the parts they don't want us to find - overseas, in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and in the Alternative Press. Some favorites are: Alternet, Campaign for America's Future, Common Dreams, Demand Progress, Democracy Now, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, The Nation, Nation of Change, The Raw Story, TruthOut, and Russ Baker's WhoWhatWhy.org. But we keep a sense of perspective; know which news is biased, and how.

The more we read, the more we realize that - as much as we want our money back - that is only one of many ways our country is becoming impoverished. Often by corporations, which most definitely are NOT people! (For one thing, these rapacious corporations have no shame.)

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that, is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
- Rahm Emanuel (Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview, Nov. 7, 2008)

Never waste the opportunities offered by a good crisis.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (Fifteenth Cent. Florentine writer and statesman)

Yes, as through this world I've wandered,
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.

And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won't never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.

- Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
- Bertolt Brecht

Yes, We're Corrupt.
- A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics

It is not particularly easy for one to climb up out of the working-class--especially if he is handicapped by the possession of ideals and illusions.
- What Life Means to Me, by Jack London (1905)

... peace was not in the interest of a stable society, that even if lasting peace "could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it." War was a part of the economy. Therefore, it was necessary to conceive a state of war for a stable economy. The government, the group theorized, would not exist without war, and nation states existed in order to wage war. War served the vital function of diverting collective aggression. They recommended "credible substitutes" and paying a "blood price" to emulate the economic functions of war. Prospective government-devised alternatives to war included reports of alien life-forms, the reintroduction of a "euphemized form" of slavery "consistent with modern technology and political processes", and - one deemed particularly promising in gaining the attention of the malleable masses - the threat of "gross pollution of the environment".
- Wikipedia's summary of The Report From Iron Mountain (1967)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower (April 16, 1953)

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
- John Adams, letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780), The Works of John Adams, vol 9, p.511.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.
      -- President Abraham Lincoln (1864 letter to William Fletcher Elkin), or faked in Caldwell Remedy Company pamphlet (May 10, 1888), or...
         <http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Newsletters/1-1.pdf> (pp. 4-6)
        <https://americanmissive.com/2009/03/20/did-abraham-lincoln-say-that/>

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth. For the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish, and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs to him only?
- Massasoit

Only when the last tree has been cut down, only when the last river has been poisoned, only when the last fish has been caught, only then will you realize your money cannot be eaten.
- an old Cree saying? Maybe not; but good.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.
- U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1938

Train communities through all their grades, beginning with individuals and ending there again, to rule themselves.
- Walt Whitman

This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1979)

The Fragile States Index (Fund For Peace)

US National Debt Clock, by Ed Hall

Time Trade Circle (Time Banking in eastern Massachusetts)

Calculated Risk (blog)

The Conscience of a Liberal (NY Times blog by Paul Krugman)

To Build A Better Ballot; an interactive guide to alternative voting systems, by Nicky Case, 2016)

OurFuture.org (Campaign for America's Future)

The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America, by Peter Turchin (Cliodynamica, 2013)

NEW: It’s Official: Watching Fox Makes You Stupider (The Nation, 2012)

The New Populism (Campaign for America's Future, 2014)

Freethinkers and Libertarianism, by David Niose

NEW: Scientists Are Pro-Testing (Science, 2017)

NEW: Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Freakonomics,2016)

NEW: We All Want Healthcare To Cost Much Less - But We Are Asking The Wrong Question, by Joe Flowers (Medium, 2017)
"Imagine this: Healthcare - the whole system - for half as much. Better, more effective. No rationing. Everybody in."

MichaelMoore.com

Our Revolution

NEW: Angry White House Staffer

NEW: GOP Rape Advisory Chart

NEW: The Loneliness of Donald Trump; On the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World, by Rebecca Solnit

Pertinent Posts

Elon Musk Says Artificial Intelligence Is the 'Greatest Risk We Face as a Civilization' (Fortune, July 15, 2017)

1990s Manifesto outlining Russia’s plans is starting to come true (News.com.au, March 4, 2017)
Trump Just Implicated Himself In Russia Collusion Investigation With His Own Tweets (Occupy Democrats, March 4, 2017)
100 days of Trump claims; a running record of Our Lying President (to use his lingo) or The Emperor Trumps (to use someone else's) (Washington Post, March 3, 2017)

Presidential Economic Address (C-SPAN, February 28, 2017)
George W. Bush demands answers on Trump and Russia (ABC News, February 27, 2017)
Wilbur Ross is another Trump cabinet nominee with Russian connections (Daily KOS, February 27, 2017)
NEW: Unexpected deaths of six Russian diplomats in four months triggers conspiracy theories (Independent, February 27, 2017)
Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War (New Yorker, February 25, 2017)
Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories (Washington Post, February 24, 2017)
NEW: Trump and the 'madman theory' (Washington Post, February 23, 2017)
The Supreme Court Just Advanced A Lawsuit To Nullify The 2016 Election (OccupyDemocrats, February 23, 2017)
A Democratic Senator flies with John McCain to Munich (U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, CT, February 22, 2017)
NEW: Do These 10 Things, And Trump Will Be Toast, by Michael Moore (Huffington Post, February 22, 2017)

NEW: Robots will take your job (Boston Globe, February 25, 2017)
Freaky February Heat Waves Trigger More Chills Over Climate Change. Hundreds of records have already been broken for the month. (Huffington Post, February 24, 2017)
Tragic FDA reports of sick babies reveal toll of Hyland's homeopathic products (Ars Technica, February 21, 2017)
IBM's Watson proves useful at fighting cancer—except in Texas. Despite early success, MD Anderson ignored IT, broke protocols, spent millions. (Ars Technica, February 21, 2017)
Appeals Court Rules that Second Amendment Doesn't Protect Right to Assault Weapons (Slate, February 21, 2017)
Making a different case for guns as a public health issue. All the evidence backs up a strong connection between guns and suicide risk. (Ars Technica, February 21, 2017)
"While surveys indicate the mental distress that triggers suicide is similar in all [U.S.] states, the suicide rates vary dramatically. The primary driver of this? The state's gun ownership rate. States with high rates of gun ownership average nearly seven times the suicide rate as those with low gun ownership, while non-gun suicides show no real pattern among the states. This trend has been identified in 20 different independent studies. Overall, the risk of death through suicide is estimated to be three times higher if there's a gun in the house."

What will we do when everything is automated?, by Robert Reselman (Open Source, February 20, 2017)
"When near total automation means there is no longer any work for most people to do, we need to come up with other means of survival."

Trump wasn't a real CEO. No wonder his White House is disorganized. (Washington Post, February 21, 2017)
White House Staffer Leaks Disturbing Trump Mental Health Details (Bipartisan Report, February 17, 2017)
Trump's latest press-conference tantrum (Daily KOS, February 17, 2017)
How could things get worse for Trump? (Washington Post, February 16, 2017)
Inside Donald Trump's White House Chaos. The New York billionaire has witnessed the lesson of Samson: toppling the temple can be painful if you try it from the inside (Time, February 16, 2017)
(Don't miss the Time cover illustration, half-way through the above article! --Dick Miller)
In an erratic performance, President Trump shows his supporters who's boss (Washington Post, February 16, 2017)
House GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is bad news for the poor and sick (Fusion, February 17, 2017)
Gutiérrez On Being Asked To Leave ICE Meeting In Capitol By Speaker Ryan And Chairman Goodlatte (U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, February 16, 2017)
Republican Health Proposal Would Redirect Money From Poor to Rich (New York Times, February16, 2017)
Betsy DeVos's Brother Is Setting Up A Private Army For China, Sources Say (Buzzfeed, February 16, 2017)
FCC commissioner says that very high-speed internet is a 'novelty' (Daily KOS, February 16, 2017)
Pick Your Poison: Leading candidate for Trump's science advisor calls climate change a cult. Both picks support science, doubt its conclusions. (Ars Technica, February 15, 2017)
NEW: 55 Paths To Putin (The Trump Watchdog, February 14, 2017)

4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump. Trump's younger supporters know he's an incompetent joke; in fact, that's why they support him, by Dale Beran (Medium, February 14, 2017)
"We know, by this point, that Trump is funny. Even to us leftists, horrified by his every move, he is hilarious. Someone who is all brash confidence and then outrageously incompetent at everything he does is - from an objective standpoint - comedy gold. Someone who accuses his enemies of the faults he at that very moment is portraying is comedy gold. But, strangely, as the left realized after the election, pointing out Trump was a joke was not helpful. In fact, Trump's farcical nature didn't seem to be a liability; rather, to his supporters, it was an asset."
NEW, also see: The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump (New Yorker, January 27, 2017)

NEW: Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age (CNBC, February 13, 2017)
Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA's Earth Science Data (Wired, February 13, 2017)

Russian Spy Ship Spotted off New York Coast, farthest a Russian spy ship has advanced up the Eastern Seaboard. (Patch, February 15, 2017)
It's bigger than Flynn. New Russia revelations widen Trump's credibility gap. (Washington Post, February 15, 2017)
Dan Rather: Trump's Russia Scandal Could Rival Watergate (Huffington Post, February 14, 2017)
White House says Trump knew three weeks ago that Flynn misled on contacts with Russia (Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2017)
On "The Today Show", Kellyanne Conway struggles to defend Trump and Flynn on Russia scandal (Daily KOS, February 14, 2017)
Ethics Watchdog Denounces Conway's Endorsement of Ivanka Trump Products (New York Times, February 14, 2017)
Russian spy ship patrolling off U.S. East Coast (CBS News, February 14, 2017)
Russia Deploys Missile, Violating Treaty and Challenging Trump (New York Times, February 14, 2017)
NEW: Upheaval is now standard operating procedure inside the White House (Washington Post, February 13, 2017)
Steve Mnuchin Is No Joe Kennedy and He's Unfit for His New Gig (Our Future, February 13, 2017)
Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn resigns over contacts with Russia (Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2017)
The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins. Intelligence Community pushes back against a White House it considers leaky, untruthful and penetrated by the Kremlin. (Observer, February 12, 2017)
NEW: How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State (Medium, February 10, 2017)
"A systemic crisis in the global Deep System has driven the violent radicalization of a Deep State faction."
When the Fire Comes, by Paul Krugman (New York Times, February 10, 2017)
The Tech Resistance Awakens; Silicon Valley employees are emerging as a potent group of anti-Trump activists. (Backchannel, February 9, 2017)
The Alt-Right Is A Doomsday Cult (Medum, February 10, 2017)
Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable. Trump's top adviser thinks we're in "the great Fourth Turning in American history."(Huffington Post, February 8,2017)
Der Spiegel: Trump Beheading Cover About "Defending Democracy" (Reuters, February 5, 2017)
First on the White House agenda – the collapse of the global order. Next, war?, by Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian, February 4, 2017)
Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump’s "Muslim ban" (Vox, February 3, 2017)
NEW: Did President Jimmy Carter ban Iranian nationals from entering the U.S. in a manner similar to Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims? (Snopes, June 18, 2016)

Activists call for national general strike in the US to bring down Donald Trump (Independent, February 2, 2017)
"These protests are too easily ignored and forgotten by those who wish to ignore and forget them."
"At this dangerous point in our history, we must confront a bitter truth: any political system that can allow Donald Trump to come to power is not a system worth keeping."
"We refuse to shop or otherwise participate in the rigged economy that Trump presides over and is beholden to. In this way, we defy the establishment and create an opening for reconstitution."

H.R.861, 115th U.S. Congress (2017-2018) - To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency, by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FL (February 3, 2017)
Kochs put political muscle into Gorsuch fight (USA Today, February 1, 2017)
"Throughout his career, Gorsuch has argued against vague interpretations of statutes which allow federal agencies to remain unaccountable to citizens."
Unapologetic Kansas Air Patrol Officer To Legislator: "This Bitch Needs To Swing From A Tree" (Daily KOS, February 1, 2017)
Sometimes (see below), honesty doesn't help.
Politicians aiming to cut Social Security and Medicare use weasel words to hide their plans. Let's call them on it. (Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2017)
NEW: Angela Merkel is now the leader of the free world, not Donald Trump (Independent, February 1, 2017)

Budweiser Just Trolled Trump With This Amazing 1-minute Super Bowl Ad (Occupy Democrats, February 1, 2017)

The Data That Turned The World Upside Down (Motherboard, January 28, 2017)
Surprise: "Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven." All that flipping around was by design?
Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Alexander Nix explains how Cambridge Analytica uses Big Data and a similar psychometric tool to help propel Donald Trump to victory. (YouTube, 11 min., 2016)
No surprise: Steve Bannon was on the Board of Cambridge Analytica.

NEW: Linux and open-source leaders oppose the President's immigration policy. (ZDNet, January 31, 2017)
The Writing of "Silent Spring": Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power, by Maria Popova (Brain Pickings, January 27, 2017)

NEW: Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass. Three new plants in California show how lithium-ion storage is ready to power the grid. (Bloomberg, January 30, 2017)

NEW: Why Trump’s universalizing of the Holocaust matters to the Jews (JTA, January 29, 2017)
"Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims." --Elie Wiesel
"After the Holocaust took away so much from the Jews, we must not take the Holocaust itself away from the Jews." --Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S.

The French ponder 'joie de vivre' in a work-free future (Digital Journal, January 27, 2017)

NEW: I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah (Autostraddle, January 26, 2017)
"I was homeschooled and my parents were part of a subculture called Quiverfull, whose aim is to outbreed everyone for Jesus. I was taught by every pastor I encountered that it was our job as Christians to outbreed the secularists (anyone not a far-right evangelical Protestant) and take over the government through sheer numbers. ... This Christofascist takeover of the US government, has been in the works for decades. When evangelical conservatism started becoming popular and more mainstream around the 1970s, the foundation was being laid for the tragedy playing out right now."

Backstabbing Republican introduces bill to give away public lands, end Forest Service (Daily KOS, January 26, 2017)

NEW: Johns Hopkins' Top Psychotherapist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis Of President Trump (Bipartisan Report,January 27,2017)
Orwell’s "1984" and Trump's America, by Adam Gopnik (New Yorker, January 27, 2017)
Kushner, Spicer, Bannon, others registered to vote in 2 states (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 26, 2017)
Inquirer Editorial: Trump's first days resemble those of a dictator (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 26, 2017)
Donald Trump's stunning first major interview as president, annotated (Washington Post, January 26, 2017)
NEW: Trump's FBI boss, Attorney General picks reckon your encryption's getting backdoored. This isn't going to end well. (The Register, January 25, 2017)
How To Cover President Trump: 5 News Rules Of Engagement For The Press, by Lauren Stiller Rikleen (WBUR Cognoscenti, January 25, 2017)
Lies of a magnitude and scale that they not only are crashing into a wall of facts and reason, but of sanity, by Dan Rather (Facebook, January 25, 2017)

Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich. Some of the wealthiest people in America - in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond - are getting ready for the crackup of civilization. (New Yorker, January 24, 2017)

Trump's Road to the White House: An investigation of how Donald Trump defied expectations to win the presidency. (1-hour PBS video; January 24, 2017)

Hill Republicans want answers. On Wednesday, Trump gave them only more questions — and fresh headaches. (Washington Post, January 26, 2017)
The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned (Washington Post, January 26, 2017)
Trump just made a vocal opponent of today's 'open internet' laws the next FCC boss (Business Insider, January 23, 2017)

Steve Bannon’s War on the Press (New Yorker, January 27, 2017)
Al Gore will host canceled climate change summit (The Hill, January 26, 2017)
Facing Information Crackdown, Federal Agencies Go 'Rogue' on Twitter (Common Dreams, January 26, 2017)
Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website (Reuters, January 25, 2017)
The first casualty of American politics? The truth. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 24, 2017)
NEW: Foreign Payments to Trump Firms Violate Constitution, Suit Will Claim (New York Times, January 22, 2017)
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders: "This "anti-establishment" president raised at least $100 million from some of the most powerful special interests in the country for his inaugural events. Mr. Trump is not an anti-establishment president. He and his billionaire friends ARE the establishment and the American people will learn that very soon." (Elite Daily, January 22, 2017)
Trump "alternative facts": The press has never seen anything like this before, by Dan Rather (Facebook, January 22, 2017)
Crowd Scientists Say Women’s March in Washington Had 3 Times More People Than Trump’s Inauguration (New York Times, January 22, 2017)

Proposed: Scientists' March on Washington; the responsible application of science to government (Scientists' March on Washington, January 21, 2017)

I Was at Trump’s Inauguration. It Was Tiny. (The Nation, January 23, 2017)
The Science Of Trump's Inaugural Address. It was written on an 8th-grade level. But there's a lot more going on. (Politico, January 21, 2017)
Trump Lays Down His Law. In a terrifying speech, the new president made clear that freedom and justice are not his concern. (Slate, January 20, 2017)
Small Inauguration turn-out (Slate, January 20, 2017)
I'm Sorry That You No Longer Want to be My Friend (DailyKOS, January 20, 2017)
Donald Trump’s full Inauguration Speech transcript, annotated (Washington Post, January 20, 2017)
Donald Trump Inauguration: Protests Break Out in Downtown Washington (New York Times, January 20, 2017)
Donald Trump’s through-the-looking-glass presidency starts today (Washington Post, January 20, 2017)
After helping deliver Trump victory, the prize comes at a high price (Washington Post, January 20, 2017)
NEW: The Domestic Conspiracy That Gave Trump The Election Is In Plain Sight (Huffington Post, January 18, 2017)

Feds sue nation's largest student loan servicer, accusing it of cheating borrowers (Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2017)

NEW: Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America's Schools to Build "God's Kingdom". Trump's education secretary pick has spent a lifetime working to end public education as we know it. (Mother Jones, January 17, 2017)

The decline of trust in America (Metrowest Daily News, January 16, 2017)

NEW: The 16 countries with the world's best healthcare systems (Business Insider, January 13, 2017)

Parker: Did we really elect Donald Trump? (Washington Post, January 13, 2017)
How Reality TV Builds Narrative Is Crucial to Understanding Trump (Vulture, January 12, 2016)
Congresswoman Barbara Lee to Boycott Inauguration of Donald Trump (Congresswoman Barbara Lee, January 12, 2017)

The REINS Act, The Most Dangerous Bill You've Never Heard of, Just Passed the House (Buzzflash, January 11, 2017)

(video) Meryl Streep Just Slammed Trump in the Best Acceptance Speech Ever (Occupy Democrats, January 9, 2017)
Trump Just Responded to Meryl Streep’s Acceptance Speech With A Tantrum (Occupy Democrats, January 9, 2017)
NEW: If Obama is a Muslim, is Trump a Russian spy? (Washington Post, January 8, 2017)
Keith Olbermann Finally Said About Trump What Nobody Has The Guts To (Occupy Democrats, January 8, 2017)

NEW: Society Could Collapse In A Decade, Predicts Math Historian (Huffington Post, January 6, 2017)

Election Connections: Russia (Daily KOS, January 8, 2017)

Trump, Putin, and the Big Hack (The New Yorker, January 6, 2017)
NEW: Declassified report says Putin ‘ordered’ effort to undermine faith in U.S. election and help Trump (Washington Post, January 6, 2017)
NEW: The US intelligence community report on Russian activities in the 2016 election (Washington Post, January 6, 2017)
NEW: U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win (Washington Post, January 5, 2017)
Joint DHS, ODNI, FBI Statement on Russian Malicious Cyber Activity (U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, December 29, 2016)
Also see:
How to Hack an Election: Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. (Bloomberg, March 31, 2016)
"My job was to do actions of dirty war and psychological operations, black propaganda, rumors—the whole dark side of politics that nobody knows exists but everyone can see."
"When I realized that people believe what the Internet says more than reality, I discovered that I had the power to make people believe almost anything."

NEW: Tanzanian Farmers Face 12 Years In Prison For Selling Seeds As They've Done For Generations (Techdirt, January 3, 2017)

NEW: India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans (New York Times, January 3, 2017)

NEW: 'Church Militant' Theology Is Put to New and Politicized Use (New York Times, December 30, 2016)
A Russian Analyst Just Revealed The Chilling Truth About Putin and Trump (Occupy Democrats, December 24, 2016)
Trump National Security Adviser Met With Leader Of Party Founded By Nazis (Huffington Post, December 20, 2016)
Trump's budget director wants the government to stop funding scientific research (Daily KOS, December 19, 2016)
Two Trump Companies Discovered In Cyprus, EU's Russian Off-Shore Banking Haven (Huffington Post, December 19, 2016)

Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors Of Psychiatry Ask President Obama To Conduct 'A Full Medical And Neuropsychiatric Evaluation' (Huffington Post, Deccember 20, 2017)

How Liberals Got the Electoral College Wrong (Slate, December 19, 2016)

NEW: OxyContin opiod goes global - "We’re only just getting started." (Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2016)
NEW: More than 1 million OxyContin pills ended up in the hands of criminals and addicts. What the drugmaker knew. (Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2016)
NEW: "You want a description of hell?" OxyContin’s 12-hour problem (Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2016)
NEW: Abuse-resistant OxyContin will be only version available: FDA (Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2013)

Barack Obama’s presidency will be defined by his failure to face down Assad. The US president’s indifference to chemical warfare led to the trail of violence that reached as far as Europe (The Guadian, December 18, 2016)

Trump using abuser playbook to manipulate the country (Daily KOS, December 17, 2016)

The Rise of the Alt-Center. Why did establishment liberals fall in love with a deranged Twitter thread? It’s time for some game theory, by Sam Kriss (Slate, December 16, 2016)

Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt (New York Times, December 16, 2016)

Nine Ways to Oppose Donald Trump (New Yorker, December 16, 2016)

Bernie Sanders In A Candid Conversation With Sarah Silverman (YouTube, December 16, 2016)

NEW: The Crowdsourced Guide to Fighting Trump’s Agenda (New Yorker, December 16th, 2016)
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda (December 14, 2016)

NEW: Solar Just Became the World’s Cheapest Form of Electricity Out of Nowhere (Fortune, December 15, 2016)
NEW: Bill Gates joins $170bn climate change investment club (The Register, December 13, 2016)

Here’s The Evidence Russia Hacked The Democratic National Committee (Time, December 13, 2016)

Trump shuns scientists, taps 'Dancing with the Stars' contestant to oversee nuclear weapons (Daily KOS, December 13, 2016)

New York should seize Trump Tower, by Catherine Rampell (Washington Post, December 12, 2016)

Trump, CIA on collision course over Russia’s role in U.S. election (Washington Post, December 10, 2016)

Stung by criticism, Trump goes after local union leader (Rachel Maddow Show, December 8, 2016)
Trump's Carrier jobs triumph looks more like a sham every day (Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2016)

Thank you, Trump voters, for this wonderful joke, by Garrison Keillor (Washington Post, December 6, 2016)

Pulling the Lever for Doomsday; Or How Donald Trump Changed Everything (2016-2020), by John Feffer, author of Splinterlands (TomDispatch, December 6, 2016)

Snowden: Petraeus disclosed more 'highly classified' information than I did (The Hill, December 4, 2016)

This is the most dangerous time for our planet, by Stephen Hawking (The Guardian, December 1, 2016)
NEW: Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it, by George Monbiot (The Guardian, November 30, 2016)

The Most Dangerous Country on Earth, by Tom Engelhardt (TomDispatch, December 1, 2016).

House Energy and Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Security of Internet of Things (National Law Review, December 1, 2016)

Even The Internet Archive Is Moving To Canada Because Of Trump (Gothamist, November 30, 2016)

NEW: She phubbs me, she phubbs me not: Smartphones could be ruining your love life (The Conversation, November 28, 2016)

NEW: The Enduring Scandal of Trump University (New Yorker, November 20, 2016)

I had a health crisis in France. I’m here to tell you that 'socialized medicine' is terrific (Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2016)

America’s Top Spy Talks Snowden Leaks and Our Ominous Future (Wired, November 17, 2016)

US Military Plans to Dump 20,000 Tons of Heavy Metals and Explosives Into the Oceans (Truth-out, November 15, 2016)

Harvard Republican Club Refuses to Endorse Donald Trump (August 4, 2016)
Donald Trump's Many Business Failures, Explained (Newsweek, August 2, 2016)
NEW: Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet (New York Times, August 1, 2016)

Populism Even Republicans Can Get Behind, by Jim Hightower (Common Cause, August 1, 2016)

Three Years Later, What Has Come of Occupy Wall Street? (Huffington Post, September 17, 2014)

The Kingpins of Carbon and Their War on Democracy (Greenpeace, September 17, 2014)

The Astonishing Story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11 (September 10, 2014)

NEW: Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse (The Guardian, September 1, 2014)

How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World (Mother Jones, September 2014)

Is 'shareholder value' bad for business? It sounds like great management philosophy-but critics say we need to get back to a broader vision of the purpose of corporations, by Leon Neyfakh (Boston Globe, August 3, 2014)

The rich want us to believe their wealth is good for us all, by George Monbiot (The Guardian, July 29, 2014)
NEW: The rise of data and the death of politics, by Evgeny Morozov (The Guardian, July 19, 2014)
Buddhist Economics: How to Stop Prioritizing Goods Over People and Consumption Over Creative Activity (Brain Pickings, July 13, 2014)

Less-Independence Day 2014, by A. Richard Miller (MMS, July 8, 2014)

If You Do This, the NSA Will Spy on You (Defense One, July 7, 2014)

Americans Consensus: Fix The Corrupt System; It's Candidate Smith by a Landslide (Popular Resistance, July 4, 2014)

Dryden: the Town that Changed the Fracking Game (Earth Justice, July 2, 2014)

The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats, by Nick Hanauer (Politico Magazine, June 28, 2014)

NEW: Supreme Court rules cell phones cannot be searched without a warrant (MSNBC, June 25, 2014)

When drones fall from the sky (Washington Post, June 20, 2014)

US continues its losing streak in health care quality comparison (Yahoo, June 16, 2014)

Gates urges Stanford grads not to focus on profit alone (June 15, 2014)

How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts (NY Times, June 6, 2014)

NEW: How China’s army hacked America. Spear-phishing attacks net nuclear plant designs, defense firm network credentials. (Ars Technica, May 19, 2014)

NEW: Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy (The Telegraph, April 16, 2014)

Will Bitcoin Replace the Dollar? (Edelman Financial Services, April 15, 2014)

Eli Lilly Enlists Congress In Fight Against Canada For Refusing Patent On Useless Drug (Techdirt, April 17, 2014)

New labour laws in France protect workers from responding to emails after 6pm, and a trial in Sweden is reducing work hours to just 30 hours a week (The Guardian, April 9, 2014)
"We must always come back to what is normal, which is to unplug, to stop being permanently at work."-- Michel de la Force, Chairman of the General Confederation of Managers, Franc

U.S. policy has gone liberals' way for 70 years (Washington Post, April 8, 2014)
Or, as I learned about 1950: "First the Socialists propose it; ten years later, the Democrats support it; ten years after that, the Republicans claim it's their idea and vote it in."

Supreme oligarchy, by E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Washington Post, April 6, 2014)

Not again: Home Depot billionaire Ken Langone compares liberals to Hitler; More proof that right-wing 1 percenters have totally convinced themselves that their critics are Nazis (Salon, March 18, 2014)

NEW: If Our Founding Fathers Were All Christians, Why Did They Say This? Daily KOS, March 17, 2014)

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science (NY Times, March 15, 2014)

Why the government should provide internet access (March 7, 2014)

Snowden Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Xbox is Target for In-House Camera Surveillance, Not Just Chat Surveillance (Techrights, March 3, 2014)

Obama's Commandments, by Karen J. Greenberg (TomDispatch, February 27, 2014)
(Also see the derivative version in the Los Angeles Times.)

Which Corporations Control the World? (Global Research News (February 21, 2014)

Obama Admin's TPP Trade Officials Received Hefty Bonuses From Big Banks (Republic Report, February 17, 2014)

The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet, by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone, February 12, 2014)

What happens with digital rights management in the real world? DRM is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world, by Cory Doctorow (Guardian, February 5, 2014)

Forget the GDP. Some States Have Found a Better Way to Measure Our Progress (New Republic, February 3, 2014)

50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima, by Harvey Wasserman (EcoWatch, February 2, 2014)

Ending the World the Human Way; Climate Change as the Anti-News, by Tom Engelhardt (TomDispatch.com, February 2, 2014)

How your boss can keep you on a leash, by Bob Greene (CNN, February 2, 2014)

Now We Know. JPMorgan Chase is Worse Than Enron, by Richard Eskow (Information Clearing House, January 22, 2014)

Seven Sustainable Technologies, by John Michael Greer (The Archdruid Report, January 15, 2014)

Beyond Growth or Beyond Capitalism?, by Richard Smith (Truthout, January 15, 2014)

Congress, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Why "Fast Track" Means Less Democracy (Occupy.org, January 14, 2014)

Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks (Chicago Tribune, January 14, 2014)

701,000 Hours in Custody, by French sci-fi author Alain Damasio on the NSA (January 14, 2014)

Occupy's Top 10 of 2013 (Occupy Wall Street, January 10, 2014)

Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns (NY Times, January 4, 2014)

Susan George on the secret capitalist cabal behind European austerity (Guardian, December 30, 2013)

Monsanto's scary new scheme: Why does it really want all this data? (Salon, December 29, 2013)

The Fear Economy, by Paul Krugman (NY Times, December 26, 2013)

A Christmas Speculation, by John Michael Greer (The Archdruid Report, December 25, 2013)

The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?, by Jed S. Rakoff (NY Times , January 9, 2014)
Why No Wall Street CEOs Were Prosecuted For Causing The Financial Crisis (review of above; Daily Kos, December 25, 2013)

U.S. judge rules phone surveillance program is likely unlawful (Reuters, December 16, 2013)
'Snowden Vindicated': Judge Rules Against 'Indiscriminate' NSA Spying (Common Dreams, December 16, 2013)
And here is the actual Klayman vs. Obama ruling.

The Volcker rule cites the Occupy Movement 284 times (Washington Post, December 11, 2013)

The Trans-Pacific Partnership's Not Dead Yet; But It's Close (The Diplomat, December 7, 2013)

NEW: How Ukrainian protestors are using Twitter and Facebook (Washington Post, December 4, 2013)

Here's why Obama trade negotiators push the interests of Hollywood and drug companies (Washington Post, November 26, 2013)

U.S. No Longer Among 20 Most Economically Prosperous Countries; A new ranking says the U.S. is behind Norway, Thailand, Malaysia in prosperity (U.S. News & World Report, October 29, 2013)

France Says Frack Off: Abandons Shale Gas Drilling (Occupy.org, October 23, 2013)

Fukushima - A Global Threat That Requires a Global Response (Truthout, October 23, 2013)

28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima (Global Research, October 23, 2013)
(A U.S. campaign to build new nukes seeks public underwriting of the risks...)

The South is holding America hostage, by Michael Lind (Salon, October 13, 2013)

Christian Delusions Are Driving The GOP Insane, by Amanda Marcotte (Salon, October 10, 2013)

How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts (Ars Technica, October 3, 2013)

The Return of the 19th Century (Daily KOS, September 30, 2013)

Congratulations, You're Paying $6k a Year to Prop Up Big Businesses (The Contributor, September 23, 2013)

Why I Occupy, by Dave Pruett (Huffington Post, September 18, 2013)

Occupy Wall Street, Two Years On: We're Still The 99% (The Guardian, September 17, 2013)

The Economic and Political Consequences of the Last 10 Years of Renewable Energy Development, by Jerome � Paris (Resilience.org, September 6, 2013)

NEW: Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.) Before Aaron Swartz became the open-access movement's first martyr, Michael Eisen was blowing up the lucrative scientific publishing industry from within. (Mother Jones, September-October 2013)

The Surprising Reason Americans Are Far Less Healthy Than Other People in Developed Nations, by Sam Pizzigati (AlterNet, August 20, 2013)

U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones (Washington Post, July 20, 2013)

Movements Without Leaders, by Bill McKibben (Huffington Post, August 18, 2013)

Do Americans Believe Capitalism & Governent Are Working? Religious Left, Religious Right & the Future of the Economic Debate (Public Religion Research Institute, July 18, 2013)

Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next (Upworthy, July 12, 2013)

You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal (Wired, July 2, 2013)

How Elite Economic Hucksters Drive America's Biggest Fraud Epidemics, by William K. Black (Alternet, May 29, 2013)
The work of Alan Greenspan and other unethical economists has cost us trillions of dollars, millions of jobs and endless suffering.

Billionaire Kochs Get Taxpayer-Subsidized Security Protection (Wall Street On Parade, May 21, 2013)

How to Worry Less About Money; What Goethe can teach us about cultivating a healthy relationship with our finances, by Maria Popova (Brain Pickings, May 13, 2013)

NEW: The man behind Avaaz. Can we change the world, one click at a time? Ricken Patel, a young Canadian, thinks so. (The Economist, May-June 2013)

Everyone's Missing the Bigger Picture in the Reinhart-Rogoff Debate, by "George Washington" (ZeroHedge.com, April 26, 2013)

The Copyright Lobotomy: How Intellectual Property Makes Us Pretend To Be Stupid, by Leigh Beadon (TechDirt, April 23, 2013)

Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems, by Mike Konczal (Next New Deal, April 16, 2013)

Derivatives Managed by Mega-Banks Threaten Your Bank Account. All Depositors, Secured and Unsecured, May Be at Risk,
by Ellen Brown (Global Research, April 9, 2013)

Teacher's resignation letter: 'My profession no longer exists' (Washington Post, April 6, 2013)

Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, April 3, 2013)

Debunking Almost Every Republican Lie Against President Obama, by Allen Clifton (Forward Progressives, March 24, 2013)

Paid to Lose; The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats, by John Stauber (CounterPunch, March 15, 2013)

How Many Billions Of Drug-Laundered Money Does It Take To Shut Down A Bank?, by Tyler Durden (Zero Hedge, March 7, 2013)

Representative Conyers needs our Support to Kill the Sequestration's Austerity, by William K. Black (New Economic Perspectives, March 1, 2013)
Note: Its Comments contain good links.

Facebook's Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Break: Executive-Pay Tax Break Slashes Income Taxes on Facebook-- and Other Fortune 500 Companies (Citizens for Tax Justice, February 14, 2013)

The One Percent Gobbled Up the Recovery, Too; in fact, it put the 99 percent back in recession, by Timothy Noah (New Republic, February 12, 2013)

Virginia Redistricting Plan 'Shameful,' Says State Sen. Henry Marsh (Huffington Post, January 22, 2013)

The Trillion-Dollar Coin: Joke or Game-Changer?, by Ellen Brown (Nation of Change, January 20, 2013)

NEW: Republicans want to change laws on Electoral College votes, after presidential losses (Fox News, January 19, 2013)

GOP Boasts About Gerrymandering to Gain U.S. House Seats (Democracy Now!, January 18, 2013)

46 Trillion Reasons To Evolve Society Right Now, by David DeGraw (Occupy Evolver, December 8, 2012)

To Move Forward, We Must Learn From Our Progressive Past, by Sam Pizzigati (Nation of Change, December 2, 2012)

8 Reasons Wall Street Greed Is the Cause, and the Solution, To Phony Fiscal Cliff Crisis, by Les Leopold (Alternet, November 30, 2012)

The Pirates Behind The Campaign To Fix The Debt, by Charles P. Pierce (Esquire, November 29, 2012)

6 Reasons the Fiscal Cliff is a Scam, by James K. Galbraith (Information Clearing House, November 25, 2012)

A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy, by Warren E. Buffett (NY Times, November 25, 2012)

An Open Letter to President Obama, by Michael Moore (November 19th, 2012)

It's the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World, (Ellen Brown, Global Research, November 8, 2012)

Green-Party candidate Jill Stein was arrested and handcuffed for eight hours during a Presidential Debate (Yahoo News, October 26, 2012)

Who Controls the World?, by James B. Glattfelder (TED Talk, October 2012; see paper of September 19, 2011, below)

Power in America: Wealth, Income and Power, by G. William Domhoff (Who Rules America?, October 2012; originally, 2005)

Occupy 2.0: Strike Debt, by Astra Taylor (The Nation, September 15, 2012)

Can Debt Spark a Revolution?, by David Graeber (The Nation, September 14, 2012)

Cui Bono Fed: Who Benefits from the Federal Reserve? (Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, September 12, 2012)

The Case Against Patents, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (Research Div., Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; September 2012)

The Next President's Inaugural Speech (If Only!) (Brent Blackwater, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy; September 5, 2012)

And Dick Miller comments:

Right on!

Well, almost right on.

1. There is a need to clearly separate "steady-state economy" from a continuation of the current world population level. They are mutually incompatible. A steady-state economy for 2- to 3-billion people probably is sustainable, but even that range becomes optimistic with our continuing depletion of resources (including our oceans and atmosphere).

2. The proposed move to a four-day work week misses an important point. Instead of a four-day, 7.5-hour-day work week, aim for my Miller Work Week, or Miller Time-Share Solution: Two work shifts, each with a three-day, 10-hour-day work week. In addition to the identical redistribution of gainful employment, the three-day solution removes rush-hour traffic jams, removes downtown parking problems, can free up great amounts of building space for more useful functions, and will free up one-third more economy-boosting time (two-thirds more, compared with now) for one's personal life! Only our failing economic system stands in the way of this efficiency.

3. Then, when possible, reduce that work week further. Modern technology's continuous increase in efficiency should decrease the number of working hours per day required to sustain a person. Sadly, for many recent decades this increased efficiency only benefited the rich - worse, it harms those who are unemployed, while many others work overtime and in poor conditions to avoid the new efficiency that we distort into "Unemployment". Again, only our failing economic system stands in the way of more equitable distribution of these fruits of efficiency. And no, this correction does not require Communism; the last person to make a big change in this direction was Henry Ford.

Cheers from
--Dick Miller

Ever Wonder How You Become a Convention Delegate? Here's a Primer on the Selection Process (The Blaze, August 28, 2012)

An end to the perpetual welfare trap? Guaranteed incomes debated (Winnipeg Free Press, August 22, 2012)

America's Deficit Attention Disorder (David Korten, Nation of Change; August 11, 2012)

NEW: Hey Verizon, 'Free Speech' Doesn't Mean You Can Edit the Internet (CIO, July 11, 2012)

The Story of the Housing Crash Recession That Politicians Don't Want To Tell (Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research; June 19, 2012)
Also with Comments thread (Nation of Change, June 20, 2012)

Five Ways the Facebook IPO Teaches Us About How Wall Street Games the System (Pat Garofalo and Travis Waldron, ThinkProgress, May 25, 2012)

Our Country Is Ruled by Bullies And Cheats (Chuck Lorre Productions, April 5, 2012)

NEW: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center, So Watch What You Say (Wired, March 15, 2012)

Psychos on Wall Street (Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2012)

America Has Lost Almost A Decade Of Progress To The Financial Crisis (The Economist, February 23, 2012)

Hell is Cheaper: China, Apple, and the Economics of Horror, by Richard Eskow (Campaign for America's Future, February 16, 2012)

Peak Everything (Bloomberg News, February 2012)

Made in the World, by Thomas L. Friedman (NY Times, January 29, 2012)
Yes, but now who leads, regulates fairly, and ensures public representation?

NEW: Newt Dumps Christian Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe. He used to care about climate, but now Gingrich is cutting a chapter about global warming science from his new book. (Mother Jones, January 6, 2012)

Look Out Below - The Nightmarish Decline Of The Euro Has Begun, by Michael Snyder (Economic Collapse Blog, January 6, 2012)

A Christmas Message From America's Rich, by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone, December 22, 2011)

Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, dies, by Karel Janicek (Associated Press, December 18, 2011)
"Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred." -- V�clav Havel (5 Oct 1936-18 Dec 2011)

Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness, by Tyler Durden (Zero Hedge, December 2, 2011)

A Banker Speaks, With Regret, by Nicholas D. Kristof (NY Times, November 30, 2011)

OWS and the Power of Creative Protest, by Allison Kilkenny (The Nation, November 21, 2011)

Money Poster (xkcd.com #980; November, 2011)

Rep. Deutch Unveils OCCUPIED Constitutional Amendment; Bans Corporate Money in Elections and Declares Corporations Are Not People (Dem/FL; November 18, 2011)

Speech to U.S. Congressional Debt Committee, by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Ind/VT (November 17, 2011)
Urging it not to propose any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, Sen. Sanders said:
"This country does in fact have a serious deficit problem, but the reality is that the deficit was caused by two wars - unpaid for. It was caused by huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country. It was caused by a recession as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street. And if those are the causes of the deficit, I will be damned if we're going to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children, and the poor. That's wrong.".

Graphic: European debt crisis explained, by Conrad Quilty-Harper and Daniel Palmer (The Telegraph, November 10, 2011)

Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street, by Norm Stamper (The Nation, November 9, 2011)

The War On The Home Front, by Frances Fox Piven (TomDispatch.com, November 6, 2011) Be sure to read its second part, "The War Against the Poor".

How Wall Street Occupied America, by Bill Moyers (The Nation, November 4, 2011)

19 Sad Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America, by Michael Snyder (Business Insider, November 2, 2011)

Goldman Sachs and Occupy Wall Street's Bank: The Real Story, by Greg Palast (Nation of Change, October 28, 2011)

Immunity and Impunity in Elite America, by Glenn Greenwald (Nation of Change, October 26, 2011) - Read the comments, too!

Revealed - The Capitalist Network That Runs The World (New Scientist, October 20, 2011; see paper of September 19, 2011, below)

Who Are The Top 1%? They Are Distorting Our Economy, by Mike Konczal (Next New Deal, October 14, 2011)

Thoughts on Corporations, by Chris Bickerton and Alex Gourevitch (The Current Moment, October 13, 2011)

Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control. Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated, by Brad Friedman (Salon, September 27, 2011)

Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors (NY Times, September 25, 2011)

The Network of Global Corporate Control (ETH Zurich, September 19, 2011)

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich, by Warren E. Buffett (NY Times, August 14, 2011)

What Happened to Obama?, by Drew Westen (NY Times Sunday Review, August 6, 2011)

30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class Died, by Michael Moore (August 5, 2011)

The Bad Deal, by James K. Galbraith (economist, son of John Kenneth Galbraith; Deutsche Welle, August 4, 2011)

Anyone Who Thinks The Debt Deal Is A Victory For America Understands Neither Economics Nor Politics, by Robert Reich (Business Insider, August 1, 2011)

Super Congress Getting Even More Super Powers In Debt Deal, by Michael McAuliff (Huffington Post, July 31, 2011)

Debt Tantrum On A Sinking Ship, by Richard Heinberg (Post Carbon Institute, July 26, 2011)

Wealth, Income, and Powe, by G. William Domhoff (Who Rules America?, September 2005; updated July 2011)

Three Charts To Email To Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law, by Dave Johnson (Campaign for America's Future, August 29, 2011)

How The Deficit Got This Big, by Teresa Tritch (NY Times, July 23, 2011) - See graphs!

NEW: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? U.S. Government hires contractors to administer contracts. (Huffington Post, May 25, 2011)

Don't Blame Goldman Sachs for the Food Crisis rebuttal by Lucas van Praag, Managing Director. Goldman, Sachs & Co. (plus a counter-rebuttal by Frederick Kaufman; May 3, 2011; see below)

How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis, by Frederick Kaufman (Foreign Policy, April 27, 2011)

The New Geopolitics of Food, by Lester R. Brown (Foreign Policy, April 27, 2011)

Beyond Conspiracy Theory: Patterns of High Crime in American Government, by Lance deHaven-Smith (American Behavioral Scientist; February, 2010)

The Cost of Care (Graphic Sociology, April 26th, 2011; graphic from National Geographic blog, Dec. 18, 2009)

Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning U.S. into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent", by Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz (Democracy Now, April 7, 2011)

Alert: Nuclear (and Economic) Meltdown In Progress (Chris Martenson, March 16, 2011)

God On The Table, by Michael C. Ruppert (Collapse Network, November 1, 2010)
"Arguably, the cause of the collapse of human industrial civilization has been a fundamental disconnect in consciousness that has led humankind to tell itself that it is exempt from the laws of physics and nature - that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet."

Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics (The Chronicle of Education, October 3, 2010)

Heavy in dollars, China warns of depreciation (Reuters, September 2, 2010)

Covert Operations: The billionaire Koch Brothers are waging a war against Obama (The New Yorker, August 30, 2010)

This Is Not a Recovery, by Paul Krugman (NY Times, August 27, 2010)

Ask Not Whether Governments Will Default, but How, by Arnaud Mares (Morgan Stanley, August 26, 2010)

How facts backfire (Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains), by Joe Keohane (The Boston Globe, July 11, 2010)

Enough is Enough (report of the Steady State Economic Conference, June 19, 2010)

Wind's latest problem: it . . . makes power too cheap, by Jerome � Paris (Resiliance.org, May 1, 2010)

Poll: Majority favors increased taxes on wealthy Americans (NorthEast Pennsylvania Business Journal, April 6, 2010)

A Sad Obituary; Conservative Supreme Court Kills Uncle Sam, by Ferguson Foont (Bare-Knuckles Politics 3.0, January 21, 2010)

Copenhagen's Hidden Agenda: The Multibillion Trade in Carbon Derivatives, Washington's Blog, (Centre for Research and Globalization, November 8, 2009)

Obama team makes it official: Budget deficit hits record. By a lot. (Today, October 16, 2009)

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?, by Paul Krugman (NY Times, September 2, 2009)

Losing my religion for equality (Jimmy Carter, July 15, 2009)

Goodbye, GM, a letter from Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, June 1, 2009)

The cost of wind, the price of wind, the value of wind, by Jerome a Paris (The Oil Drum, May 6, 2009)

Builders & Titans: Bernie Madoff, by Michael Moore (The 2009 TIME 100, May 1, 2009)

"We the People" to "King of the World": "YOU'RE FIRED!", a letter from Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, April 1, 2009)

Oh, What a Lovely Class War!, by Michael Winship (Bill Moyers Journal, March 13, 2009)

Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America, by Robert Weissman and Harvey Rosenfield (Wall Street Watch, March 4, 2009)

A Proven Framework to End the US Banking Crisis Including Some Temporary Nationalizations (Adam S. Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress hearing, "Restoring the Economy: Strategies for Short-term and Long-term Change"; February 26, 2009)

www.Recovery.org belonged to the U.S. Government (February 24, 2009). But on May 19, 2014 we were notified that this URL no longer is appropriate.

Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package (Washington Post, February 1, 2009)

Orlov: Russia Was Better Prepared for Collapse than the U.S., by Dmitry Orlov (TruthNews.us; January 16, 2008, originallly published December 4, 2006)

China factory output dips further (BBC News, January 4, 2009)

A guide to the credit crunch, audio slideshow (6 minutes) by BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston (BBC, January 1, 2009)

Protectionist dominoes are beginning to tumble across the world, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph, Dec. 22, 2008)

Madoff: The man who sold the world, by Rupert Cornwell (Independent, Dec. 21, 2008)

Revving China's auto industry, by Peter Day (BBC News, Dec. 13, 2008)

Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead, a message from Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, Dec. 12, 2008)

Automakers fail to cash in on big GOP donations, by Ken Bensinger (LA Times, Dec. 12, 2008)

White House, Democrats Near Short-Term Deal For Automakers; Loans to Carry Firms to March, by Lon Montgomery and Kendra Marr (Washington Post, Dec. 6, 2008)

Saving the Big 3 for You and Me, a message from Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, Dec. 3, 2008)

Baltic Dry Index Falls 93%; Are We Heading into a Global Recession or Possibly a Worldwide Depression?, by Nick DuBay (Associated Content, Dec. 1, 2008)

Sync, and Swim Together, by Daniel Kahneman and Andrew Rosenfield (NYTimes, Nov. 24, 2008)

Colossal Financial Collapse: The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank 'Nationalization', by F. William Engdahl (Global Research, Nov. 24, 2008)

Systemic Risk, Contagion and Trade Finance - Back to the Bad Old Days, by London Banker (RGE Monitor, Nov. 14, 2008)

A Credit Crisis or a Collapsing Ponzi Scheme? The Two Trillion Dollar Black Hole, by Pam Martens (Counterpunch, Nov. 13, 2008)

Financial Crisis: Washington's $5 Trillion Tab, by Elizabeth Moyer (Forbes.com, Nov. 12, 2008)

Failing Like Japan, by Bill Mann (Motley Fool, November 11, 2008)

US Taxpayers Violated; The Looting Operation Continues, by Chris Martenson (Financial Sense University, Nov. 11, 2008)

The First 100 Days (The GOOD Sheet, Nov. 6, 2008)

This Is Not The End Of Capitalism, by Mark Shuttleworth (Here Be Dragons, Nov. 4, 2008)

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and F---- You, by Matthew Malone (Portfolio.com, Oct. 17, 2008)

NEW: Voting Your Conscience for a Third Party Candidate Is Not A Wasted Vote (American Free Press, Oct. 13, 2008)

It's a Solvency Problem, Not a Liquidity Problem, by Mark Shuttleworth (Here Be Dragons, Oct. 9, 2008)

Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy, by Peter Goodman (NY Times, Oct. 8, 2008)

Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis, by Andrew Purvis (Time, Oct. 7, 2008)

Why the $700 Billion Isn't Helping, by Jeremy Caplan (Time, Oct. 7, 2008)

"There were still aspects of this package that I didn't like.", by Senator Barbara Boxer (Calculated Risk blog, Oct. 4, 2008)

Here's How to Fix the Wall Street Mess, by Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, Oct. 1, 2008)

Congresswoman Kaptur Votes Against Bill To Bail Out 'Reckless' Wall Street (Sept. 30, 2008)

Congratulations, Corporate Crime Fighters! Coup Averted for Three Days!, by Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, Sept. 30, 2008)

Shocked the Bailout Plan Failed? You Shouldn't Be., by Robert Zimmer (Sept. 29, 2008)

The Rich Are Staging A Coup This Morning, by Michael Moore (MichaelMoore.com, Sept. 29, 2008)

A Shattering Moment in America's Fall from Power, by John Gray (The Observer, Sept. 28, 2008)

Is this the United States Congress or the board of directors of Goldman Sachs?, by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (US House of Representatives, Sept. 28, 2008)

Last Chance for the Truth, by Martin Weiss (Money and Markets, Sept. 28, 2008)

The Bailout: What's At Stake, by Chris Isidore, senior writer (CNNMoney.com, Sept. 26, 2008)

Proposed $700 Billion Bailout Is Too Little, Too Late to End the Debt Crisis; Too Much, Too Soon for the U.S. Bond Market, by Martin Weiss and Michael Larson (Weiss Research, Inc., Sept. 25, 2008)

Real reform or nothing, by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (US House of Representatives, Sept. 25, 2008)

The 'Oracle' Speaks: Listen Up, Hank, by Jeff Matthews (blog, Sept. 24,
2008)

Our Federal Economy, by George Will (Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2008)

Main Street Before Wall Street, by David Korten (Yes! Magazine, Sept. 24, 2008)

Stocks and Stockbrokers, by Paul Lutus (Lutus website, June, 2008)

World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years, says US report (The Guardian, May 13, 2008)

NEW: Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican, by John Gray (Thom Hartmann, January 28, 2008)

Hillary Clinton: A Bilderberg Presidency; European elite back Democratic frontrunner (Old-Thinker News, November 8, 2007)

Living Wealth: Better Than Money, by David Korten (Yes! Magazine, Fall 2007)

Orlov: Russia Was Better Prepared for Collapse than the U.S., by Dmitry Orlov (TruthNews.us; Jan. 16, 2008, originallly published Dec. 4, 2006)

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry, by William K. Black (Amazon listing; April 1, 2005)

CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly, by Dr. Daniel Geer and others (Computer & Communications Industry Association, Sep. 27, 2003):
In free market economies as in life, some failure is essential; the "creative destruction" of markets builds more than it breaks. Wise governments are those able to distinguish that which must be tolerated as it cannot be changed from that which must be changed as it cannot be tolerated. The reapportionment of risk and responsibility through regulatory intervention embodies that wisdom in action.

Courtney Love does the math (Salon, June 14, 2000)
Her brilliant exposure of the U.S. music industry and the RIAA.

Money Vs. Wealth, by David Korten (Yes! Magazine's special "Money: Print Your Own!" issue, Summer 1997). Yes, this article was written early in the inflation phase of the now-infamous Dot-Com bubble. When will they ever learn?

NEW: "The Limits To Growth", downloadable book by Donella Meadows and Dennis Meadows (Club Of Rome, 1972)

To confront the poverty of satisfaction-purpose and dignity-that afflicts us all, by Robert F. Kennedy (Remarks at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968)

The following links offer some Black Humor.

Matt Wuerker's political cartoons (the series, via Politico)

Brian McFadden's political cartoons (the series, via NY Times)

NEW: Tom Toles' political cartoons (the series, via GoComics)

NEW: Dave Granlund's political cartoons (the series, via Dave Granlund of MetroWest Boston, Massachusetts)

Full Intro: Idiocracy (3-min. video; YouTube, Oct 27, 2014)

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Man in Hostage Video Forced to Recite Words Not His Own, by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, August 14, 2017)
(Trump backs off from, "ALL parties shared the blame for Charlottesville.")

Cartoon by Wasserman: Uncertainty about Climate Change Report (Boston Globe, August 9, 2017)

Dave Granlund cartoon: Rattling nerves around the world (DaveGranlund.com, August 9, 2017)

Cartoon by Tom Stiglich: Cookies and Milk, Mr. President (TomStiglich.com, August 8, 2017)

Dave Granlund cartoon: North Korea and Nuclear Sanctions (DaveGranlund.com, August 7, 2017)

Cartoon by Nate Beeler: Poetic Justice for Pharma Bro (Patriot Post, August 6, 2017)

Cartoon by Rob Rogers: Stolen Jobs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 4, 2017)

Cartoon by Gary Varvel: I can do this (Patriot Post, August 4, 2017)

Cartoon: NASA works for Billy (RogueNASA, August 3, 2017)

Cartoon by Rick McKee: The Trump cartoon that draws itself (Patriot Post, August 2, 2017)

Doonesbury cartoon: "Coal miners are my BRAND! FIND me some!" (Go Comics, July 30, 2017)

Borowitz Report: Trump Supporters Furious That They Still Have Health Care (New Yorker, July 29, 2017)

Robert Ariail cartoon: Skinny Repeal of ObamaCare (Go Comics, July 27, 2017)

Robert Ariail cartoon: Trump Merit Badges (Go Comics, July 27, 2017)

NEW: Bar Officially Cannot Be Lowered, by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, July 24, 2017)

Arlo and Janis cartoon: "Develop a fleet of interstellar spacecraft" (Go Comics, July 14, 2017)

Arlo and Janis cartoon: "We can escape to another planet!" (Go Comics, July 13, 2017)

Stephen Colbert monologue (18 min.): Trump team met with Russian lawyer during campaign (YouTube, July 10, 2017)

NEW: Dave Granlund cartoon: Trump and Putin Meet (DaveGranlund.com, July 7, 2017)

Don’t Give Congressmen a Housing Subsidy. Make Them Live in Dorms. (Slate, June 29, 2017)

Cartoons: "I didn't start the fire." (in Daily KOS thread, June 26, 2017)

Video (3 min.): Mitch McConnell Song, "Old Man Fibber", by Roy Zimmerman (YouTube, June 23, 2017)

Cartoon: Because healthcare works best when it's free market, by Ruben Bolling (Daily KOS, June 22, 2017)

Video (1 min.): Conan O’Brien spots a hilarious ‘nervous tic’ that shows when Jeff Sessions is lying (Raw Story, June 14, 2017)

Man Ravaged by Amnesia Somehow Able to Hold Down Demanding Legal Job, by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, June 13, 2017)

Cartoon: Religious Dogma (Progressive Secular Humanist Examiner, June 9, 2017)

Cartoon: Comey vs. Trump (Dave Granlund, June 8, 2017)

Pittsburgh Secedes From Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania And Joins French Republic (Breaking Burgh, June 2, 2017)

Herefefe is why it’s toughfefe to say 'covfefe' (Washington Post, June 1, 2017)

Dave Granlund catapult cartoon: NASA On No-Frills Budget (May 26, 2017)

Paul Simon And Stephen Colbert Are "Feelin' Groovy" (3-min. YouTube, May 24, 2017)

John Oliver: 'It is too easy to point at Trump being crazy.' The host of Last Week Tonight discussed the president’s firing of James Comey and the need for Congress to hold him accountable for his actions. (The Guardian, w/video, May 15, 2017)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Video - Stephen Reacts To Trump Calling Him 'A No-Talent Guy' (CBS.com, May 11, 2017)

My Job Application To Be FBI Director, by Robert J. Elisberg (Huffington Post, May 11, 2017)

Cartoon: Freedom to be screwed, 2017 edition, by Jen Sorensen (Daily KOS, May 9, 2017)

Cartoon: Global Pollution (Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2017)

French Annoyingly Retain Right to Claim Intellectual Superiority Over Americans, by Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker, May 7, 2017)

Cartoon: Lola, Politicians' Goals (GoComics, May 6, 2017)

Correction: Republican bloodsuckers who sentenced poor to die didn’t drink Bud Light (AV Club, May 5, 2017)

Cartoon: Very sick (Mike Luckovich, May 3, 2017)

The Simpsons: Donald Trump's First 100 Days In Office (YouTube, April 26, 2017)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: How Much Of Trump's 100 Day Action Plan Has He Completed? (YouTube, April 25, 2017)

Cartoon: Trump agenda (Dave Granlund, April 24, 2017)

NEW: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: A Farewell To Bill O'Reilly From Stephen Colbert And 'Stephen Colbert' (YouTube, April 20, 2017)

The Daily Show with Stephen Colbert: The Scrapping Of Internet Privacy: Something We Can All Hate Together (YouTube, March 30, 2017)

Trump Vows to End the Nonexistent War on Coal: The Daily Show (Trevor Noah, March 29, 2017)

NEW: Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz: Sherlock Nunes (Daily KOS, March 28, 2017)

Trump's Presidential Checklist (Reddit, March 28, 2017)

Cartoon: So many distractions, by Tom Tomorrow (Daily KOS, March 20, 2017)

What did I tell you about hiring Nazis? (Democratic Underground, March18, 2017)

Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why (Washington Post, March 16, 2017)

Donald Trump promised to wipe out ISIS; perhaps he already has, by Rich Hall (The Guardian, March 6, 2017)

Photo: Obama At Trump's Window (March 5, 2017)

Cartoons Show How the Rest of the World Views Trump's First Month in Office (Attn:, March 3, 2017)

Cartoon: GOP balks at fake news, by Branco (Liberty Alliance, March 1, 2017)

Cartoon: Welcome to Trumpcare, by Tom Tomorrow (Daily KOS, February 27,2017)

Mike Pence horrified to discover unisex toilet in own house (The Chaser, February 25, 2017)

Seen His Latest? (Doonesbury, February 19, 2017)

Trump and McConnell inadvertently make the rock solid case for NOT confirming Supreme Court nominee (Daily KOS, February 16, 2017)

Give Ebola a Chance (Beatrice The Biologist, February 14, 2017)

Image of Pregnant Trump, Affectionate Putin Decorates Buildings in NYC on Valentine's Day (NBC New York, February 14, 2017)

Modernize the U.S. Power Grid (Union of Concerned Scientists, February 9, 2017)

NEW: Trumpuppetry (Angry White House Staffer, February 6, 2017)

NEW: Scientists Baffled by McConnell and Ryan’s Ability to Stand Upright Without Spines, by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, January 30, 2017)

Inspired by Trump, by Glen Ickler (Metrowest Daily News, January 28, 2017)

Three Presidents (Your Reality Check, January 25, 2017)

Video: The Netherlands welcomes Trump in his own words (YouTube, January 23, 2017)

America’s Problem Now Officially The World’s Problem (WW News, January 20, 2017)

NEW: Cartoon: When Satan Is The Best Choice (Progressive Secular Humanist, January 19, 2017)

Photos: Trump Rehearsing his 2017 Goal: Take over Britain and replace The Queen (Political Forum, January 18, 2017)
"We are not amused." (Sorry, YRH, but WE are!)

Cartoon: Secretary of Hen Houses #2 (Bob Englehart, January 18, 2017)

Bush Counting Down Days Until He Is No Longer Worst President in History, by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, January 17, 2017)

NEW: Dave Barry's Year in Review: Trump and the "hideous monstrousity" that was 2016 (Washington Post, January 1, 2017)

Kremlin Names Trump Employee of the Month, by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, December 30, 2016)

Cartoon: Secretary of Hen Houses (Robert Ariail, December 8, 2016)

NEW: Garrison Keillor: Maybe a Trump presidency is what God intended (Washington Post, November 29, 2016)

NEW: Trump Picks El Chapo to Run D.E.A., by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, November 28, 2016)

Cartoon: Banking Explained (Pearls Before Swine, November 27, 2016)

Trump Make America Great Again Red Cap Collectible Ornament (Amazon, November 23, 2016)

NEW: An airplane was about to crash... (Reddit, November 18, 2016)

Hey America! Remember me?, by Hillary Clinton (parody, November 13, 2016)
Things Finally As Bad As Trump Claims (The Onion, November 9, 2016)
NEW: Cartoon by Andy McClure, I'm terrified of Muslims. (Facebook, November 24, 2015)
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (The Onion, April 15, 2014)
(It seems worth repeating, the day after the 2016 U.S. National Election.)

If Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election, it will be the first time in history that two U.S. presidents have slept with each other.
If Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election, it will be the first time in history that a billionaire moves into public housing vacated by a black family.

In Final Appeal to Voters, Clinton Changes Slogan to "Won’t Blow Up Planet", by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker, November 7, 2016)

Cartoon: Post-Election, by Dave Granlund (MetrowestNews, November 4, 2016)

Cartoon: Do you have an Antisocial Personality Disorder?, by Reuben Bolling (Tom The Dancing Bug, November 4, 2016)

If the media covered climate change the way it covers Hillary's email, by Jen Sorensen (Daily KOS, October 25, 2016)

Cartoon: Voters Prepared, by Dave Granlund (MetrowestNews, October 31, 2016)

Cartoon: Hillary's Halloween, by Dave Granlund (MetrowestNews, October 31, 2016)

Edgar Allan Trump’s "The Raven" (October 30, 2016)

Anthropologists Discover Isolated Tribe Of Joyful Americans Living In Remote Village Untouched By 2016 Election (The Onion, October 28, 2016)

The Yale Record Does Not Endorse Hillary Clinton (Yale Record, October 26, 2016)

Be Alarmed: Social Media is About to Get Boring (ExtraNewsfeed, October 25, 2016)

Cartoon: No comparison, by Jen Sorensen (Daily KOS, October 25, 2016)

Sweet 'Meteor of Death' for President? (Wry Guys, October 22, 2016)

Denial Flowchart, by John Atkinson (Wrong Hands, October 21, 2016)

Honest Don spoke at a closed event in Gettysburg this morning. Someone leaked a transcript and photo (Daily KOS, October 22, 2016)
Fill your library with these Donald Trump book reports (Daily KOS, October 20, 2016)

Hillary's Internal Debate (Jen Sorensen, October 11, 2016)

This Is Who Trump Is - and it was difficult to draw (Liza Donnelly, October 8, 2016)

The Bomb Squad (Chattanooga Times Free Press, September 20, 2016)

NEW: Americans Find Common Ground, by Chan Lowe (AAEC, September 7, 2016)

This Naked Donald Trump Statue Cannot Be Unseen (Huffington Post, August 18, 2016)

All You Need To Know About Trump And Clinton In 2016 (Huffington Post, August 2, 2016)

Brexit (phd comics, July 1, 2016)

Stephen Hawking Angers Trump Supporters with Baffling Array of Long Words, by Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker, May 31, 2016)

Much To Hillary's Dismay, Bernie Won't Get Out (New Orleans Advocate, May 24, 2016)

Notes on Your 'Rise of The Donald' Pitch (NY Times, May 20, 2016)

NEW: Donald Trump's First Day in the White House (Thuppahi's Blog, May 5, 2016)

Koch Brothers Consider Purchasing First Democrat, by Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker, April 25, 2016)

Pharaoh Endorses Donald Trump for President (VsGoliath, April 21, 2016)

NEW: Video: Trump's Secret Wig Field (YouTube, April 14, 2016)

Historical Quotes cartoon (Mike Luckovich, February 10, 2016)

Presidents View Trump on TV (The New Yorker cover, February 1, 2016)

4-Lane Presidential Highway cartoon, modified from this cartoon by Matt Wuerker (Sept. 18, 2015)

NEW: Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall, by Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker, August 31, 2015)

NEW: Sentiment Building to Deport Nation’s Billionaires, by Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker, August 24, 2015)

Capitalism Explained (tickld, August 3, 2015)

NEW: Cartoon: "Climate Is Self-Correcting", by Tom Toles (GoComics, July 23, 2015)

Clinton Coronation cartoon (Matt Wuerker, July 11, 2015)

NEW: Cartoon: "Climate Forecast", by Tom Toles (GoComics, May 12, 2015)

Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans, by Andy Borowitz (The New Yorker, May 12, 2015)

NEW: Medicare: Part G - Nursing Home Care Plan (Beemaster, April 20, 2015)

NEW: Cartoon: "Sixth Mass Extinction", by Tom Toles (GoComics, December 2, 2014)

Unemployment Isn't a Bug -- It's a Feature, Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon by Ruben Bolling (Sep. 24, 2014)

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States (The Onion, April 15, 2014)

The One Rich Guy; He Owns Everything, by Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World, Feb. 19, 2014)

Nation of Moochers cartoon (Jen Sorensen, Jan. 13, 2014)

Pretend We're Not Watching, Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon by Ruben Bolling (Jan. 1, 2014)

Inequality in Six Panels, Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon by Ruben Bolling (Dec. 18, 2013)

NEW: Cartoon: "It's Not Real", by Tom Toles (GoComics, December 2, 2013)

NEW: Cartoon: "Survival Plan", by Tom Toles (GoComics, August 11, 2013)

Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews (October 24, 2012)

NEW: Cartoon: "The Sky WAS The Limit", by Tom Toles (GoComics, January 2, 2012)

The Power Pyramid: The 1%, cartoon by Unknown (Global Research, Dec. 1, 2011)

The Ten Stupidest Objections to the Occupy Wall Street Movement, cartoon by Barry Deutsch (Nov. 14, 2011)

Percentage of Millionaires (Chris Piascik, Oct. 20, 2011)

Wall Street Demonstrators/Wall Street Bankers, cartoon by Steve Sack (Oct. 5, 2011)

Cartoons: Here's What The World Thinks About America's Political Crisis (Business Insider, Aug. 4, 2011)

NEW: Cartoon: "It's Us Punishing Ourselves", by Tom Toles (GoComics, July 27, 2010)

Bailout Cartoons (www.cartoonstock.com)

The Government Can, singing video by Tim Hawkins (ca. 2009)

GM unveils its new, made-in-America bankruptcy, by Philip Maddocks (Natick Bulletin & Tab, Jun. 5th, 2009)

Investing in the Dogbert Investment Fund, cartoon by Scott Adams (Dilbert.com, Apr. 12, 2009)

SapSeason, cartoon by Dave Granlund (www.davegranlund.com, Mar. 6, 2009)

They're too small to let succeed, cartoon by J.D. "Iliad" Frazer (UserFriendly, Feb. 11, 2009)

Orlov: Russia Was Better Prepared for Collapse than the U.S., by Dmitry Orlov (TruthNews.us; Jan. 16, 2008, originallly published Dec. 4, 2006)

Santa Claus Bailout Hearing (National Lampoon, Dec. 18, 2008)

Financial Bailout Explained (YouTube, Nov. 19, 2008)

Detroit Rescue Attempt, cartoon by Dave Granlund (www.davegranlund.com, Nov. 13, 2008)

I went as the stock market, cartoon by J.D. "Iliad" Frazer (UserFriendly, Nov.1, 2008)

The markets are crashing!, cartoon by J.D. "Iliad" Frazer (UserFriendly, Oct. 15, 2008)

Congress & Bailouts, cartoon by Dave Granlund (www.davegranlund.com, Sept. 23, 2008)

Keeping Fannie & Freddie Afloat, cartoon by Dave Granlund (www.davegranlund.com, Sept. 8, 2008)

McCain asks Congress for a bailout of his bankrupt straight-talk image, by Philip Maddocks (Natick Bulletin & Tab, Sept. 26, 2008)

Hank Paulson's 419 Nigerian-spam bailout letter (Sept. 22, 2008)

NEW: Cartoon: "Carbon Sequestration", by Tom Toles (GoComics, July 16, 2007)

NEW: (5-min. video) Roy Zimmerman's "Creation Science 101" (YouTube, Feb. 6, 2007)

NEW: Cartoon: "Global Warming Isn't Happening", by Tom Toles (GoComics, January 2, 2004)

NEW: Cartoon: "It Can't Be Done", by Tom Toles (GoComics, November 10, 1997)

NEW: Cartoon: "Animal Traits", by Tom Toles (GoComics, December 2, 1996)

NEW: Politician Lie-Detector Test, by Johnny Carson (5-min. TV skit, very old and yet ever so current)

Four Prominent Bastards, poem by Ogden Nash. This was, the story went, written by Ogden Nash for a Gridiron Club dinner ca. 1941, and was broadcast on Armed Service Radio by mistake. It's been published as "A Ballad to be Sung By Four Prominent Love Children" and other names. In fact, Nash first wrote it for the Dutch Treat Club in 1933 (see it in my Poems web page):

I remember daddy's warning that raping is a crime,
Unless you rape the voters a million at a time."