democracy

My first interview at Real Progressives on Monetary realities, including how the Federal Government spends, the absence of legitimate solvency concerns, austerity scares and other related questions.

Recently, I was interviewed by Steve Grumbine at Real Progressives about the idea of Public Purpose. Public Purpose is a term which first came to prominence during the 1970s when […]

One of the notable things about Donald Trump’s campaign and his pronouncements since election day is his post – election frequent lying. Robert Reich offered a column on December 17 […]

Existing and proposed trade agreements with Investor – State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions fail to support and defend the Constitution, and even subvert it. Here is a partial list of likely […]

So, let’s say you’ve followed my advice and decided to remain undecided or even began supporting Jill Stein from this point until election day, and then you find yourself in […]

With Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton has come a split among his “progressive” supporters. Some, perhaps most, say that it is time for Berniecrats to unite behind Hillary and […]

This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]

We need big, big changes in the United States. Many of them will require the Federal Government to spend unprecedented amounts, including deficit spending to enable us to solve problems […]

This is how the mission of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was defined by the White House on February 18, 2010: The Commission is charged with […]

The Eurozone is an instrument of the globalization process that is setting financial elites over all nations of the world, including the democracies. The situation in Greece exposes the true […]