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...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Dear Editor “Alt-Right.” It sounds cool. Obviously, the label has been focused grouped. Let’s be clear. Please, do not fall for the rebranding of the white supremacist movement. Years ago they wore white hoods and hanged black people. Just because they no longer wear...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
A new bronze statue was added to the median island in which the Wall Street “Bull” has been living on for decades. The bronze girl faces the Bull with her hands on her hips, in a stance of determination, with her skirt flying in the wind. The investment managers who...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Innovation for whom? Sounds good, right? Wrong. Innovation, in this case, is how to innovate more opportunities to privatize our society’s democratic functions such as roads, schools, water, and national parks to create new (innovative) business profit-making...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Donald Trump pressed Fast Forward on the Decline of the United States as a Global Leader. He managed to isolate his nation, confuse and alienate his allies, and to diminish America’s power and seed that power to China and Russia. Two authoritarian states that will...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
I hate seeing articles like the one recently written On the US Postal Service by the Associated Press that they recently distributed to news desks nationwide. It briefly mentioned that the Postal Service had to default on payments for future retires as if this...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
Is the worst possible? I used to think it wasn’t, but the recent exchanges between President Trump and the leaders of North Korea has shaken my confidence. I now see a story line in which the worst may take place. I do not think it will, but I am not sure it won’t....
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
My heart is breaking. Republicans and those citizens who support them are replacing America with something else. This is not the country I grew up knowing … a free and democratic society. America is becoming an authoritarian state. It is changing right before our eyes...
Dec 25, 2024 | America Abandoned
“Donald Trump pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a global leader. He managed to isolate his nation, confuse and alienate his allies, and to diminish America’s power and seed that power to China and Russia. Two authoritarian states that will...
Dec 25, 2024 | Climate Abandoned
More than a decade after releasing the groundbreaking climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, former U.S. vice president Al Gore has done it again. The politician-turned climate activist debuted his new movie, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, in...
