The times they are a’changing. The contrast is very stark: Authoritarian powers and dupes of leaders are falling like dominoes around the world. Those hanging onto their power through iron-fisted control tremble in the face of something brewing beyond their control. Even in our own supposedly democratic government, there is exposed the most glaring self-centeredness, [...]
The recent collision of interests between Democrats and Republicans over raising the debt ceiling masks a virulent and insidious intent behind all the posturing on the part of a growing cadre of Republicans. The talk is of revamping Social Security and Medicare on the one hand, and raising taxes on the other, and there seems [...]
For Decades – ever since the reforms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration – conservatives have been howling into the wind, trying to drum up opposition to Social Security, using every ploy in the book to destroy legislation that has benefited – and continues to benefit – millions upon millions of our elderly citizens. They will [...]
Something new is emerging in America. The bitter and fanatical cry of outrage from Republicans, conservatives and Tea-Partiers at the final passage of a first-ever national health care bill is the sign that something unusual is now coming to the fore in America. The rage, of course, is directed against Democrats, but its real target [...]