by Marty Kassowitz | Feb 2, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
I recently stumbled on a comment I wrote about Big Pharma price gouging 11 years ago: Bringing down the cost of healthcare is an incomplete concept if we don’t bring the rampant price gouging of the pharma manufacturers and outlets under control. Here’s a couple of...
by Thom Hartmann | Feb 1, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Like an alcoholic family that won’t discuss alcoholism (proving Don Quixote’s warning never to mention rope in the home of a man who’s been hanged), far too many Americans are unwilling to acknowledge or even discuss the...
by Florida Phoenix | Jan 29, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Florida Phoenix, by Diane Roberts OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE—They’re here, they’re not cool enough to be queer, and they’re hell-bent on turning Florida into Hungary with humidity. I speak of our legislators, of course, collectively as sorry...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jan 26, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
To all our readers, Our little site got a hell of a lot bigger in 2023, more so than we could have hoped. Last year was one of unprecedented, for us at least, growth. We more than quintupled the number of page views from the previous year. We now have over 1600...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 25, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann [Every incident mentioned in this article is based on an actual statement or action by Donald Trump, the people closely surrounding him, or something Trump has praised about his role model Victor Orbàn.] It was a hell of...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 23, 2024 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Neoliberalism broke the world, but the neoliberals at the height of political and corporate power don’t want to admit it and so helplessly complain about the backlash to it that they call populism. The easy solution is to...