Trump’s ignorant tariffs won’t bring US manufacturing jobs back

Tariffs are a consumption tax on the middle calls and don’t bring jobs. Tariffs make the rich even richer at the expense of the middle class. As history in many countries, including the USA, Germany, and China teaches us, government funding of education and innovation bring jobs. In his address to Congress, Trump said the …

Slow Ending of USA Empire and Its Technology Now Takes Rapid Descent

Capitalism’s Golden Age was between 1945 to 1980 in the USA, started by FDR and ended by Reagan. The short period was an outlier for capitalism, when a socialist-capitalist hybrid structure brought prosperity to most, a huge middle class, and great technological innovations. Since 1980, the USA has been contracting gradually, but with Trump 1 …

Benjamin Netanyahu Hugs Fellow Mass-Murder, Joe Biden

Today, as it did yesterday on Christmas day, Israel is slaughtering innocent Palestinians. As Andrew Mitrovica has written, “The US president owns every despicable aspect of the calamity unfolding in Gaza perpetrated by his country’s ever reliable and obedient proxy, Israel.” As a man who never learned from George Bush’s debacle in Iraq, something Biden …