Category Archives: Articles/News

  1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Only love can do that [drive out hate]”

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    January 19, 2020 by epoetus

    by Bert     It is easy to say “history repeats itself” and “if we haven’t learned from history then …
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    Category: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Democracy, Economy, Foreign Policy, Income Inequality, Military, Progressive, Racism, Voting rights | Tags:

  2. Are we witnessing Republican desperation?

    January 5, 2020 by epoetus

    by Bert       It appears that US hegemony is waning. This hegemony applies to many situations: world politics …
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    Category: Elections, Foreign Policy, Military, terrorism, World Affairs

  3. The New Year: Taxes, Capitalism and democracy

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    December 30, 2019 by epoetus

    By Bert     This NY Times article has an animated graphic which shows the decline of income tax for …
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    Category: Democracy, Economy, Government, Income Inequality, Tax reform

  4. Global Warming and COP25: What can we expect?

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    December 8, 2019 by epoetus

        by Bert     Global warming and climate change represent what is frequently referred to as an existential …
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    Category: Climate Change, Democracy, Gun Violence and Legislation, Money Out of Politics

  5. What is the deal with the trade agreements?

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    November 2, 2019 by epoetus

    And the trade wars? And the agreements regarding asylum seekers?     #45IdiOTUS has promoted a fictional narrative that it …
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    Category: Agriculture, Economy, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Trade Agreements | Tags:

  6. The revolution is here — Democrats ignore it at their peril

    November 1, 2019 by epoetus

    NOTE: this is an excerpt from the Alternet article by the same title.  The link to the Alternet article is …
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    Category: Climate Change, Democracy, Economy, Elections, Environment, Government, Health Care, neoliberal, Progressive

  7. Yes, a secure online voting system is possible, but maybe we need to fix the root cause first

    October 5, 2019 by epoetus

    When children can hack in and alter the votes tabulated by an official voting system in use today in under …
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    Category: Democracy, Elections, Government, Media, Money Out of Politics, Racism, Voting rights, Women's Reproductive Rights

  8. Could our narcissistic sociopathic White Supremacist President have committed treason?

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    September 28, 2019 by epoetus

    NOTE: He is now 73, not 71 – it is detailed in the text below the photos, specifically the left …
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    Category: Campaign Finance, Democracy, Elections, Foreign Policy, Income Inequality, Money Out of Politics, Progressive, Racism, Trump, Uncategorized, Voting rights

  9. A WA first: SJC Democrats just put an income and wealth tax onto the Democratic party agenda

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    September 22, 2019 by epoetus

        “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of …
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    Category: Campaign Finance, Democracy, Economy, Income Inequality, Media, Money Out of Politics, National government, Progressive, Supreme Court

  10. Messages for the “Fly Over” states: Global Warming

    September 8, 2019 by epoetus

    4 points and a ‘truth sandwich’         There are political messages that resonate across political lines and …
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    Category: Climate Change, Democracy, Economy, Environment, National elections, Progressive

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