Political Talk Shows, The Fairness Doctrine and Presidential Elections
Media consolidation has dealt a serious blow to the breadth of news and information offered to American listeners and viewers. Moreover, the loss of the Fairness Doctrine negatively impacted the...
View ArticleLAS CRUCES (NM) FOR BERNIE, WE'VE BEEN HERE AND WE'VE BEEN BUSY
Since June 2015 Las Cruces for BERNIE has been in operation in our community as a non-profit, independent volunteer political organization unaffiliated with any party or candidate. Our purpose is to...
View ArticleVirtual Victory
The people of Iowa tonight strongly validated Bernie Sanders and totally invalidated the media. By virtue of a near total news blackout of the Sanders campaign, the very same campaign that has tied...
View ArticleThe Continuum of Hillary
Throughout the campaign Hillary has been sliding back and forth along the continuum between her right-of-center sweet spot and the unnatural left-of-center spot she is forced to occupy depending upon...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Progressive Facilitator
Epic That's right Epic. Obscured by the media generated noise of the Republican race, the news blackout of the Sanders campaign and the overwrought focus on the petty differences between Sanders and...
View ArticleThe CEO's "Profits First" Myth
Snookerd is the word. If you believe, as I have for years, that corporations have a "fiduciary responsibility" to maximize profits for their shareholders as their primary business concern, that their...
View ArticleBernie vs. Hillary and the Establishment: A Clear Choice
It’s really quite simple. Once you have set aside all the lies, disinformation and political rhetoric, the question of whom to vote for in the 2016 presidential election is a no-brainer. That is, if...
View ArticleMoral or Immoral Leadership: The Choice is Ours
The public is coming out in droves for Bernie Sanders. There is passion and urgency in the air related to his true progressive positions on economic and social justice. People are filling stadiums,...
View ArticleWhy Our One Party System Would Be Cool With Either Clinton or Trump as...
The DNC and the donors and corporate backers of the Democratic AND Republican Parties would sooner see a Clinton or Trump presidency than allow Bernie Sanders anywhere near the nomination, if they can...
View ArticleToday's Liberal Bias Against the Working Class
Left/progressives have long identified the pernicious and often successful strategy of those in power to divide the populace against each other by promoting bigotry, envy, hostility, fear, hatred and...
View ArticleThe Current Corporate Coup
The loss of democracy is an inevitable result of the ascension of unelected political power. Over the past 40 years in the US. we have witnessed the return of this cyclical phenomenon of our capitalist...
View ArticleAN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE WHO REJECT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
Having administered a progressive Facebook page for nearly two years and having actively responded to material and comments that appear on that and on my personal page, I have found an amazing...
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