A great reckoning has come for the American business model of labor exploitation — will corporations choose growing labor shortages and boycotts, or employee rights and fair pay? Although the top 10 percent in the U.S. own 70 percent of the U.S. wealth, the working class holds tremendous untapped power capable of transforming the corporatist…
While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
There is an ongoing DHS investigation into the forced hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees; an act of genocide with deep roots in US history. It was confirmed that the Georgia doctor performed two hysterectomies on detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center who allege they did not consent to such an abhorrent procedure. ICE —…
The Federal Reserve loaned $1.5 trillion to the financial system yesterday– $500 billion into short-term bank funding — and misguided critics believe the Fed exchanging cash for securities to increase liquidity and prevent a bank run is a government “bailout” and tantamount to “corporate welfare.” However, monetary policy is completely independent of fiscal policy (the…
As supply chains struggle under global health concerns over the spread of COVD-19, many are left wondering whether an economic recession in 2020 is imminent amid the 2,000 point plummet in the Dow, supply-chain disruptions among companies sourced in China, and weakened consumer demand in sectors such as oil and the airline industry. Data on…
If the federal minimum wage had kept up with the 657% increase in inflation and 176% rise in worker productivity over the past 50 years, it would be $21.72. It peaked in 1968 at $11.18 when the cost of a four-year public university was $329.00, according to National Center for Education Statistics, a manufacturing job…
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen (Matt. 20:16).” The blessed apostles who served God and not mammon were penniless, persecuted, imprisoned, Lazarus the greedy rich man burned while the beggar was carried to Abraham’s bosom, Jesus overthrew the moneychangers from the church and fed…
Complete climate change mitigation is an alternative forecast that overlooks carbon-reduction solutions such as sequestration and nanotechnology that will be necessary to meet a 27% increase in global energy demand, provide electricity access in developing nations where 1 billion lack electricity and face barriers to renewable energy attainment. On our current baseline trajectory, renewables will…
Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime…
By the year 2050, the UN estimates the global population will reach a staggering 9.8 billion. One of the biggest existential challenges facing this population projection will be the 70% rise of food demand. With most growth generating from developing nations, high-yield agricultural solutions based on food technology, sustainability, precision farming, and genetically engineered crops…
A great reckoning has come for the American business model of labor exploitation — will corporations choose growing labor shortages and boycotts, or employee rights and fair pay? Although the top 10 percent in the U.S. own 70 percent of the U.S. wealth, the working class holds tremendous untapped power capable of transforming the corporatist…
Since the U.S. economic reopening began, gas prices rapidly hit a 7-year national average high of $3.24 a gallon. Consumers are feeling pain at the pump and wondering if this is the fruit of President Joe Biden’s energy policies. This oil and gas sticker shock threatens to strengthen the country’s biggest inflation scare in over…
In 1861, 11 senators and 3 representatives were expelled from Congress for supporting the insurrection and refusing to recognize Lincoln’s electoral win. Today, congressmen and republican governors are calling for the impeachment and/or removal of treasonous President Trump under the 25th Amendment for inciting a domestic terrorist coup attempt to stop the Electoral College count…
While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
There is an ongoing DHS investigation into the forced hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees; an act of genocide with deep roots in US history. It was confirmed that the Georgia doctor performed two hysterectomies on detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center who allege they did not consent to such an abhorrent procedure. ICE —…
Donald Trump’s nomination of conservative jurist Amy Coney Barret to the increasingly partisan Supreme Court has spared a deep confirmation battle. Many are contesting whether Americans’ having a stake in the decision requires waiting until the presidential election. Nonetheless, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on October 12th. What would a potential confirmation of…
Can electoralism ever produce a transfer of power to the working-class in a two-party system, or are corrupt political parties that will never allow change into power, elections dominated by corporate interests, and voter suppression the problems? According to the theory of democratization, the wealthy autocrat class only willingly surrenders power in times of extreme…
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only revealed the inherent, exploitative economic failures of an unfettered free market, but also, the environmental failures of capitalism as decreased fossil-fuel activity has cleared the air pollution in Asia, and canals in Italy. Yet there has been a rising online sentiment pinning global environmental deterioration on…
The Federal Reserve loaned $1.5 trillion to the financial system yesterday– $500 billion into short-term bank funding — and misguided critics believe the Fed exchanging cash for securities to increase liquidity and prevent a bank run is a government “bailout” and tantamount to “corporate welfare.” However, monetary policy is completely independent of fiscal policy (the…
As supply chains struggle under global health concerns over the spread of COVD-19, many are left wondering whether an economic recession in 2020 is imminent amid the 2,000 point plummet in the Dow, supply-chain disruptions among companies sourced in China, and weakened consumer demand in sectors such as oil and the airline industry. Data on…
If the federal minimum wage had kept up with the 657% increase in inflation and 176% rise in worker productivity over the past 50 years, it would be $21.72. It peaked in 1968 at $11.18 when the cost of a four-year public university was $329.00, according to National Center for Education Statistics, a manufacturing job…
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen (Matt. 20:16).” The blessed apostles who served God and not mammon were penniless, persecuted, imprisoned, Lazarus the greedy rich man burned while the beggar was carried to Abraham’s bosom, Jesus overthrew the moneychangers from the church and fed…
Complete climate change mitigation is an alternative forecast that overlooks carbon-reduction solutions such as sequestration and nanotechnology that will be necessary to meet a 27% increase in global energy demand, provide electricity access in developing nations where 1 billion lack electricity and face barriers to renewable energy attainment. On our current baseline trajectory, renewables will…
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ surging lead in the polls, leading donations with a record 4 million small donors, and majority-support for his policies across demographics make it clear he’s not only the true populist in the race, but the most electable once-in-a-lifetime candidate. Faux-populism won in 2016, and centrism’s failure made it clear that ‘any…
Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime…
By the year 2050, the UN estimates the global population will reach a staggering 9.8 billion. One of the biggest existential challenges facing this population projection will be the 70% rise of food demand. With most growth generating from developing nations, high-yield agricultural solutions based on food technology, sustainability, precision farming, and genetically engineered crops…
Anxiety is fueled by our negative perception, it quenches its ravenous appetite by telling us no before we even try, wraps it’s neurotic branches around our legs and paralyzes us. Anxiety denies us friendships before people have, it denies us opportunities before the jobs, admissions, internships, and clubs do. It denies us experiences in fear of the worst. Paralyzed, you live in fear of the worst instead of in hope of the best. Thereby creating a negative-feedback loop in which by protecting yourself from failure you protect yourself from happiness and an epic love, an epic career, and greatness. Here’s to combating your anxiety and low-self esteem.
Faux-populism may have won in 2016, but American voters approve of Bernie Sanders real populism: 58% of non-white voters, 73% of African Americans, 68% of Hispanics, 56% of women, and 62% of 18-34-year-olds. These are your ‘Bernie Bros’ media.
A 7-year-old asylee girl being locked up by ICE for four months at a Chicago jail has become America’s heralded “rule of law.” With the new Supreme Court ruling stating that immigrants, even permanent residents, and asylees, can be held indefinitely, internment camps have become the law of the land. As if the violation of…
Since 2012 there have been 1,624 mass shootings in the U.S. We’re responsible for 31% of global mass shootings despite being 5% of the population, but guns are the only aspect of society we can’t seem to regulate. Since 1996, 167 of mass shooters’ weapons were obtained legally (49 were obtained illegally.) Somehow keeping guns out…
Why are people with the same economic interests so divided? It’s not “economic anxiety”; a vote in Iowa is the equivalent of 5 California votes. The answer is grounded in American history spanning back 300 years when racial animosity was harnessed by elite landowners to destroy class solidarity and prevent rebellions. Divided, those with the…
The Trump administration has expressed a desire to kick out 800,000 young, tax-paying professionals, army members, and college students with a 91% employment rate and no felonies or misdemeanors by rescinding DACA, to fulfill a racist utopia. To kick out young adults who had no jurisdiction over coming here. While ignoring the facts: DACA has…
Nearing 2018, Clinton loyalists have taken it upon themselves to slander the most liked politician in America (who stands for the most statistically favorable issues.) Choosing to rehash the June 2016 primaries with slanderous narratives about Sanders while “Queen Hillary” drinks chardonnay in the woods, goes on a book blame tour, and turns down the…
Time and time again, history has proven our economy to be better under democratic presidents and, thus Keynesian economic policy. It’s no mystery as to why republican Congresses have been responsible for the last four major economic crisis in the: 1930s, 1970s, 2001, and 2008. Supply-side economics simply doesn’t work in non-Stagflation conditions. As it…
It’s time to stop putting political ideology over the welfare of the country. In the world-power that is the United States, medical expenses have long been the number one cause of bankruptcy, with 78% of filers already having health-insurance. It should be considered a serious issue when inhabitants of the wealthiest country have to choose…
“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.” – Donald J. Trump. Truer words have never been spoken by Trump. If you thought the 2000 Al Gore loss was unfair, well wait ‘till you hear how much our losing 2016 candidate won the popular by – 2.9 million votes. In fact, with our current…
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