"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From Oligopoly Watch, on returning to blogging after recovering from knee replacement surgery I’ve used the time to think a little about the major changes in corporate power and the naked way in which national governments are manipulated to maintain…
Marxism, that body of political thought based on the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, has had a hard time of it. When it’s been tried, it has failed to bring about its most fundamental goals. Only rarely has…
At the age of 28, Jackie Speier was an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan when he went to Guyana to investigate Jim Jones. He was assassinated, she was shot five times and left for dead on an airstrip. She survived…
Mark Cuban’s insider trading charge: Payback for 9/11 Truther, anti-Bush movie?
A UK engineer has invented a device that harnesses wave power to pump sea water uphill, from where it can flow downhill to create hydroelectricity, raising hopes of a cheap, abundant source of renewable energy. A test version pumped water…