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The fiscal cliff...It's startling to consider that we've reached a point when half of Congress is unwilling to raise taxes on the upper brackets while the country is in the midst of a historical low in...
View ArticleThe Illinois Department of Public Health vs. Illinois Raw Milk Farmers
The Illinois Department of Public Health recently invited a local farmer of raw milk to a meeting to discuss proposed restrictions on the fledgling industry. Apparently, concerns have been raised by...
View ArticleHow Liberalism Is The Ideology of Exploitation
On July 8th, 1549, in a quiet corner of the county of Norfolk, people witnessed a spectacle that would strike contemporary audiences as strange and reactionary, yet was both expected and appreciated in...
View ArticleHow A Ragtag Gang of Rednecks Became America's First Progressives
While the country attempted to readjust to the new sociopolitical and socioeconomic landscape, out of the blight that followed The Civil War emerged a period of upheaval characterized by partisanship...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Revolt
Perhaps we would be better served and more honest with one another if were to rename "The Age of Enlightenment" according to its actual effect, which is deceit. Wouldn't you be more inclined to read...
View ArticleSlavery & Mercantilism
The ongoing debate between historians who study The Revolutionary era is a political one. Participants typically fall into two camps, Jeffersonian sympathizers and Hamiltonian sympathizers, and the...
View ArticleUsury on The Macroeconomic Scale
The most relevant and likely example of a deflationary crisis results as a consequence of usury, or debt, otherwise known as “credit.” The only way a country can sustain inequality when its currency is...
View ArticleA Critique of Libertarianism
The Libertarian Party Platform is clear and concise. Principle among The Libertarian’s concerns is the establishment of a “free and competitive market.” Under the heading “Economic Liberty,” The...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About Who Is Spying on You and How They're Doing It
. . . Trailblazer, which led to the wholesale privatization of the intelligence sector, cost an estimated 1.2 billion dollars and enabled the violation of Americans’ constitutional rights, replaced...
View ArticleLies, God-damned Lies and The Unemployment Rate
America’s civilian workforce consists of 156 million people and 7.2 percent is unemployed according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics, yet evidence suggests the number of Americans struggling...
View ArticleHow "Free Trade" Destroys Freedom
American history has been married to the history of money since its founding, albeit what began as an experiment, a revolution or rebellion to overthrow an economic system predicated upon exploitation...
View ArticleDark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal
[Reposted from Truth-Out, byline: Joseph Natoli]Newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio's "tale of two cities," referring to the wealth divide in New York, sounds nicely Dickensian, but the "boots on the...
View ArticleHow The Campaign To End The Fed Was Originally A Progressive Cause
The Libertarian movement’s extremism alienates a large portion of the population. “Conservatives” disapprove of the party’s social agenda and “liberals” disapprove of its economic agenda, although an...
View ArticleThe World’s Largest Arms Dealer and The Rise of American Imperialism
World War 2 was a boon for the United States economy, the linchpin in FDR’s economic reform, a windfall for The American worker, and with its resolution followed fears of recession, and from those...
View ArticleHow Liberalism Is The Ideology of Exploitation
On July 8th, 1549, in a quiet corner of the county of Norfolk, people witnessed a spectacle that would strike contemporary audiences as strange and reactionary, yet was both expected and appreciated in...
View ArticleHow A Ragtag Gang of Rednecks Became America's First Progressives
While the country attempted to readjust to the new sociopolitical and socioeconomic landscape, out of the blight that followed The Civil War emerged a period of upheaval characterized by partisanship...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Revolt
Perhaps we would be better served and more honest with one another if were to rename "The Age of Enlightenment" according to its actual effect, which is deceit. Wouldn't you be more inclined to read...
View ArticleSlavery & Mercantilism
The ongoing debate between historians who study The Revolutionary era is a political one. Participants typically fall into two camps, Jeffersonian sympathizers and Hamiltonian sympathizers, and the...
View ArticleUsury on The Macroeconomic Scale
The most relevant and likely example of a deflationary crisis results as a consequence of usury, or debt, otherwise known as “credit.” The only way a country can sustain inequality when its currency is...
View ArticleA Critique of Libertarianism
The Libertarian Party Platform is clear and concise. Principle among The Libertarian’s concerns is the establishment of a “free and competitive market.” Under the heading “Economic Liberty,” The...
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