Investment banks are sounding the alarm on a looming recession while consumers worry about soaring inflation diminishing their purchasing power, a plummeting stock and bond market, slow GDP growth, rising interest rates, and an equity market decline. But what do actual economic indicators of recessions currently say about the likelihood of sliding into a recession?…
Soaring inflation rapidly climbed 7% in the United States through December, the fastest since 1982. The rising price index isn’t a unique phenomenon, it’s been seen globally. However, it’s been more pronounced in the U.S. than in any other country. Policy makers argue over the causes among partisan lines, but what has really been the…
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…
Mass hunger, unemployment, sickness, and an eviction crisis are things Americans are experiencing at a level not seen since the Great Depression through no fault of their own and with no relief. The other America, the billionaire class’ wealth has seen their wealth surpass a $1.9 trillion gain since mid-March, 2020 when most federal and…
The Texas GOP suggested secession from the United States this morning after, on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a seditious, undemocratic lawsuit by Texas, supported by 106 House Republicans, asking to overthrow the election results from four states Trump lost in November — GA, MI, PA, and WI. The suit was filed by TX AG…
A staggering 233 election cases are pending in federal courts facing off over voting rights during an election in a pandemic. Voter suppression rulings are already underway. Recently, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ process for tossing absentee ballots over mismatched signatures, determining that the right to vote by mail is not…
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 Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act allocating $740.5 billion to the defense budget while including a plan to rename bases named after Confederates. This comes after voting down Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed 10% cut in defense funding.
Industrial capitalism has relied on cost minimization through cheap labor since the Gilded Age — it’s now moved overseas where it’s had unsafe, exploitative ramifications in developing nations. The decline in US manufacturing since the 1970s has without a doubt transformed the economic landscape to the detriment of non-college educated American workers. The 14.3 million…
In our ever increasingly competitive job market how can we confound our unquenchable drive for success with humble gratitude and labor not in vain? How can we live an ethical life amid a “hustle culture” that demands we monetize our every living breath and action and compare ourselves against others who do? How can we…
Investment banks are sounding the alarm on a looming recession while consumers worry about soaring inflation diminishing their purchasing power, a plummeting stock and bond market, slow GDP growth, rising interest rates, and an equity market decline. But what do actual economic indicators of recessions currently say about the likelihood of sliding into a recession?…
Soaring inflation rapidly climbed 7% in the United States through December, the fastest since 1982. The rising price index isn’t a unique phenomenon, it’s been seen globally. However, it’s been more pronounced in the U.S. than in any other country. Policy makers argue over the causes among partisan lines, but what has really been the…
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…
Mass hunger, unemployment, sickness, and an eviction crisis are things Americans are experiencing at a level not seen since the Great Depression through no fault of their own and with no relief. The other America, the billionaire class’ wealth has seen their wealth surpass a $1.9 trillion gain since mid-March, 2020 when most federal and…
Incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will exert great influence over domestic economic issues that will finally help the American working class like never before through a special budget mechanism. Vowing to move quickly to push through an economic stimulus package and fight economic inequality to “boldly address the needs of working…
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…
The Texas GOP suggested secession from the United States this morning after, on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a seditious, undemocratic lawsuit by Texas, supported by 106 House Republicans, asking to overthrow the election results from four states Trump lost in November — GA, MI, PA, and WI. The suit was filed by TX AG…
Democrats wrongly blame progressives for a net five centrist candidate House losses despite Americans’ overwhelming support for progressive policies. All 112 co-sponsors of Medicare for All on the ballot won, and 97 out of 98 co-sponsors of the Green New Deal on the ballot won. A recent Fox News exit poll further corroborated the fact…
Trump won the highest share of non-white electorate vote of any Republican in 60 years, while moderate Democrats lost support and seats. Despite Joe Biden’s expected narrow win, Democrats face a disconcerting problem from declining minority and Latino support that can only be regained through the proven-effective economic populism of the likes of Bernie Sanders….
A staggering 233 election cases are pending in federal courts facing off over voting rights during an election in a pandemic. Voter suppression rulings are already underway. Recently, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ process for tossing absentee ballots over mismatched signatures, determining that the right to vote by mail is not…
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 Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act allocating $740.5 billion to the defense budget while including a plan to rename bases named after Confederates. This comes after voting down Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed 10% cut in defense funding.
“These slaves constituted a peculiar rand powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of war,” Abraham Lincoln stated in his second inaugural address according to Major Problems (2). That single speech succinctly explained the cause of the Civil War fought from 1861 through 1865 – slavery. Slavery and the economic, political…
Industrial capitalism has relied on cost minimization through cheap labor since the Gilded Age — it’s now moved overseas where it’s had unsafe, exploitative ramifications in developing nations. The decline in US manufacturing since the 1970s has without a doubt transformed the economic landscape to the detriment of non-college educated American workers. The 14.3 million…
In our ever increasingly competitive job market how can we confound our unquenchable drive for success with humble gratitude and labor not in vain? How can we live an ethical life amid a “hustle culture” that demands we monetize our every living breath and action and compare ourselves against others who do? How can we…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Merely riding an undetectable pale speck on a universe spanning 93 billion light-years, our existence falls victim daily to our insignificant human conceits. Our psyches attempt to confront this vast, cosmic glory by assigning inordinate, life-or-death value to every inconvenience. We convince ourselves we are special, inherently cursed snowflakes, instead of humbling ourselves before the…
Your early 20s — the mental limbo of feeling like a teenager yet being treated like an adult while thrown into the unpredictable, proverbial abyss. Now imagine the added confusion and pressure of being apart Generation Z and ignoring worldly ways. Forget the “quarter-life-crisis,” 20 is the new age to ruminate over every career, life,…
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.
Over a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a militarized crusade against drug cartels, Mexico has recorded its highest homicide rate of 19.4 since the interior ministry began keeping records, with a staggering 29,168 murders in 2017. Despite lethal military deployment and a winning ‘kingpin-strategy’ (Nieto has neutralized 89% of drug-cartel leaders on his…
No one is born knowing how to solve differential equations. A baby isn’t stupid for not knowing how to walk. Skill, it turns out, is just cultivated practice. Yet much our generation’s collective psyche – which heralds apathy and laziness – would have you believe if you’re not born with it, you should give up…
The extremist side of child-drugging internment camps, Obama effigies, Roy Moore, sexual assault, and mocking the disabled doesn’t care about civility; what they want is compulsory compliance, and dissent silenced in their administration’s persistent crimes against humanity. There is something seriously wrong with a nation showing more concern for wealthy operatives of administration rampant with human rights violations being kicked…
A Trump-supporting New York attorney with a documented history of launching unhinged, racist tirades against strangers was recently caught on camera again verbally assaulting two bilingual people for speaking Spanish in public. Aaron Schlossberg berated an employee and a customer for conducting an order in Spanish saying, “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when…
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…
Behind every self-made story of success was not an individual with grandiose, insurmountable confidence, but rather a need greater than their fears. It is not the absence of qualms which led Joan of Arc to a French victory, or Malala Yousafzai to face off death for women’s education, but rather the belief that something was…
“Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” As if it was possible to hit a new low, Donald Trump has managed it with a series of brazenly racist comments bypassing previous dog-whistles. In a meeting this past Thursday, as confirmed by Sen. Durbin and Sen. Graham, he expressed the desire…
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…
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” The Declaration of Independence, Statue of Liberty, Constitution, and general rule of law, are the new Communist flags to Russian flag-wielding, conservative, self-proclaimed “patriots.” In the past year, we’ve seen the political right launch a zealous campaign against American…
The politics of fear and hate has manipulated many Americans into feeling like the discriminated class because of perceived systemic ” reverse racism” — an ideology which has coincidentally proliferated since the civil-rights movement. White-Americans began feeling oppressed when African-Americans gained equal rights with the Brown v. Board ruling, Kennedy’s 1961 Executive Order, the Civil…
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…
It was the perfect end to a surreal, phenomenal 8 years. Maybe one of the greatest speeches delivered in the last few thirty years. Embodying the values he carried so fervently behind every decision, Obama delivered the very message which he never strayed from; genuine, passionate, moving and most importantly hopeful. Hopeful in the face…
“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…
After last night’s devastating results, half of America was left shaken to it’s core – media and politicians included, while the other half celebrated the nomination of Donald Trump as our 45th president. The electoral college created to protect us from a demagogue failed us. Hillary didn’t just lose, civil rights lost, civil liberties lost,…
A textbook narcissist, a blatant racist, a hate mongrel, a conman, and a misogynist with fascist tendencies – words I would’ve never in my life used to describe a republican nominee or past republican president. They’re words millions of people have readily adopted into their conversation as soon as there’s a mention of him. Attitudes…
“Out of vulnerability comes progress.” If don’t do things out of your comfort zone you’ll always stay where you are. If you want something you’ve never had you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. If you have no goals you’re actively working towards you’ve become complacent. Complacency should be your biggest fear. Yes you’re…
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