by Jill | Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Years ago, maybe fifteen or so, I realized that the corporate media had abandoned real news. This revelation came to me when The News Hour on NPR shifted from analyzing stories and asking profound questions in their interviews to merely inviting two talking heads to...
by Jill | Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Before I wrote America Abandoned, I mapped out a book that would discuss how we, the people have been utterly abandoned by our media. I still plan to write that book, but in the meantime, there are more important things to discuss. As their website explains, the Voice...
by Jill | Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
There is a new branding phrase of which we all need to be aware: Universal Access, but first, some background. An overwhelming majority of Americans want the security and affordability of a Universal Health Care System (as it has been called) as all the other...
by Jill | Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Losers or Killers Inauguration Day January 20, 2017 My eyes are full of tears. My heart is broken. My mind is astonished … that a man who referred to the size of his penis in a debate, bragged about grabbing pussy, that is proud of stiffing subcontractors...
by Jill | Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Anticipated How Billionaires Would Take Over Democracy and How We Can Get It Back Santa Cruz, Calif.—In her prescient, eye-opening new book America Abandoned: The Secret Velvet Coup That Cost Us Our Democracy (pub. date 9-26-16), author and political activist Jill...