Category Archives: Marty’s Blog

Posted on Oct 28, 2016 By Bill Blum   President Obama appeared at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton after FBI Director James Comey’s announcement in July. (Chuck Burton / AP) Editor’s note: The FBI told Congress on Friday that it is … Continue reading →

Posted on Oct 19, 2016 By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet When Donald Trump blurted out that not paying his taxes “makes me smart,” he was revealing a truth about the American narcissist. Senator Lindsey Graham was being equally arrogant when he stated, … Continue reading →

Posted on Sep 18, 2016 By Chris Hedges   President Barack Obama is joined by presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. (Carolyn Kaster / AP) Thomas Frank’s marvelous scorched-earth assault on the … Continue reading →

Sept 12, 2016 Bill Moyers Sixty-six years ago this summer, on my 16th birthday, I went to work for the daily newspaper in the small East Texas town of Marshall where I grew up. It was a good place to … Continue reading →

Sept 6, 2016 Robert Reich Your typical wage is below what it was in the late 1970s, in terms of what it can buy. Two-thirds of you are living paycheck to paycheck. Almost 30 percent of you don’t have steady … Continue reading →

Aug 31, 2016  by Chris Hedges We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes … Continue reading →

July 15, 2016 Martin Berger NEO According to the recent article published by the Foreign Policy that goes under the title – Survival is the new American Dream, young Americans are disillusioned in capitalism. The article presents the results of the … Continue reading →

By Jim VandeHei Apr. 19, 2016 Digital media companies are caught in the “crap trap,” mass-producing trashy clickbait so they can claim huge audiences and often higher valuations. Here is how they fell into this lethal trap: They got into … Continue reading →

Tyler Durden on 04/13/2016 “Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.” … Continue reading →

By JEFF MERKLEYAPRIL 13, 2016 NO decision we make as Americans more dramatically affects the direction of our country than our choice for president. He or she is more than the manager of the executive branch, commander in chief or … Continue reading →