When the Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, there was a great hue and cry from both Democratic politicians and the public. The Court had ruled that corporations are persons within the meaning of the First Amendment, and that they have the right to political free speech. Political free speech, in America, means the…
Trump and his populists have taken over the Republican party. The insurrection he led effectively stripped the Republican establishment of power and influence over their nominee. No Republican candidate for president has been as despised by Wall Street and special interests since Teddy Roosevelt ran in 1904. Until The Donald, the GOP was the party…
In 1975, the modern animal movement was born with the publication of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation. Since then, the Animal Holocaust has more than doubled in size. By any measure, the Animal Holocaust will continue to grow. All of the animals saved by animal activists and vegans in the last 50 years are fewer than…
So, what just happened? Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy last year, the political pundits and media talking heads have gotten everything wrong in their analyses. Each week would be Trump’s last. Each controversial comment was to doom his campaign. Each debate performance was dissected and each stump speech criticized. Not one political pundit gave…
Trump and his populists have taken over the Republican party. The insurrection he led effectively stripped the Republican establishment of power and influence over their presumptive nominee. No Republican candidate for president has been as despised by Wall Street and special interests since Teddy Roosevelt ran in 1904. Until the Donald, the GOP was the…
Living under a corrupt corporate oligarchy should make one suspicious of the widespread, orchestrated attacks aimed at Donald Trump. Establishment politicians, media talking heads, political pundits, and corporate insiders are nearly unanimous in parroting dire warnings of imminent doom should Trump be elected. Attacks on Trump come from both Republicans and Democrats, candidates and office…
Donald Trump does not give a damn about animals. He supports trophy hunting. He buys fur for his wife. He has a business called Trump Steaks that sells animal body parts. He doesn’t personally hunt, but thinks it is perfectly OK. Not a likely animal rights person, let alone an animal rights president. But Trump,…
Until the Donald, the GOP was the party of free trade agreements, military adventurism, cutting capital gains taxes, corporate welfare, tax loopholes, trickle-down economics, super pacs, and lobbyist influence in campaigns and government. No more. Trump has ignored establishment orthodoxy and repudiated establishment priorities. Trump has been able to take his message condemning military intervention…
In any contested election between a Republican animal exploiter and a Democrat animal exploiter, an animal exploiter wins. And the animals lose. Of course no Republicans or Democrats identify themselves as supporters of animal exploitation. They say they are capitalists. They say they are for freedom. They say that they are for economic growth. They…
Look at the bills in your wallet and the change in your pocket. There are slaveholders on the $1 bill, the nickel, and the quarter; a genocidal murderer on the $20, a racist on the dime. Even the Great Emancipator, on the penny and the $5, wanted to send freed African Americans back to Africa.…
Armory of the Revolution 