Author Archives: Arlen Grossman

Electronic Oligarchy

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Arlen Grossman

Net Neutrality Means You Can Have The Internet Your Way By Thom Hartmann/ ThomHartmann.com/ January 26, 2018   The international order is changing as a result of populism, and I would argue that the populism is a response to the … Continue reading →

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4th Amendment? What’s That?

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Arlen Grossman

Letter in the Sunday Monterey Herald, January 20, 2018 With the help of 65 Democrats, the House of Representatives voted 256-164 last week to support a controversial bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program. Section 702 of the Foreign … Continue reading →

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The Real “Shithole Country”

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Arlen Grossman

by Chris Hedges/ Truthdig/ January 14, 2018 I covered the war in El Salvador for five years. It was a peasant uprising by the dispossessed against the 14 ruling families and the handful of American corporations that ran El Salvador … Continue reading →

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Time to Overthrow Our Rulers

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Arlen Grossman

By Thom Hartmann/ AlterNet/ January 8, 2018   Is it time to bring a monarchy to the United States? Or is it time to end one? The New York Times recently ran a fascinating article [3] by Leslie Wayne putting … Continue reading →

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6 Degrees of Vladimir Putin

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Arlen Grossman
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The Visionless Society

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Arlen Grossman

By Chris Hedges/ Truthdig/ December 31, 2017 Imagine yourself in early 2019. The Democrats, despite never articulating a political vision other than not being Donald Trump and refusing to roll back Republican legislation such as the 2017 tax bill, have … Continue reading →

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The Real Coup Plot Is Trump’s

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Arlen Grossman

By Jascha Mounk/ New York Times/ December 20, 2017 When Donald Trump’s campaign was accused of spreading “fake news,” he quickly appropriated the term for himself. The true purveyors of fake news, he claimed, were television networks like CNN and … Continue reading →

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DEVOLUTION

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Arlen Grossman
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Sorry, Kids

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Arlen Grossman
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The Triumph of the Oligarchy

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Arlen Grossman

By Robert Reich/ robertreich.org/ December 17, 2017 By passing the tax plan, Republican donors will save billions — paying a lower top tax rate, doubling the amount their heirs can receive tax-free, and treating themselves as “pass-through” businesses able to … Continue reading →

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