The following is an excerpt from the new book Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All by Donald Jeffries (Skyhorse Publishing, July 2017), available on Amazon, Indiebound and...
On April 7, President Trump committed his first “act of war,” attacking Syria with missiles in response to what he said was a poison gas attack by the Syrian government that killed dozens. But the White House’s subsequent intelligence report offering its proof of...
The two octogenarian senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are up to one of their favorite pastimes again this year. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have reintroduced a perennial bill that would increase penalties for drug dealers...
Fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. denounced the triple evils of poverty, racism and militarism, a coalition of racial, social, economic and gender justice groups is condemning Donald Trump’s proposal to dramatically increase funding for the greatest...
Wednesday’s big news on Wall Street wasn’t that for yet another year its average wage and bonuses put finance employees in the top 1 percent. It was that the Federal Reserve’s third interest rate hike in a decade was fueling a stock rally—meaning there was more money...
As the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan extends into its third presidential administration, the United Nations and local residents say that American forces appear to have waged another mass killing of civilians, this time in the Sangin District of Helmand Province. The...
A federally-funded “peace” institute that claims to be independent and nonpartisan will feature a lineup of staunch military interventionists and torture cheerleaders at a conference about “passing the baton” to Donald Trump. The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Institute...
I am the great-grandson of the Chicago meatpacker Oscar Mayer. I won the lottery at birth. For the last five decades, I have been traversing the race and class divides in our society. I can attest: The relationship status between US people and our super-wealthy is...
When President Obama announced this week in Laos that the United States was giving $90 million to clear away unexploded bombs that U.S. planes dropped on Laos a half century ago and that still kill and maim farmers today, he failed to credit the man who first told us...
What can be done to deter pharmaceutical companies from jacking up prices of critical drugs? To prevent Wall Street banks from excessive gambling? To nudge CEOs into taking a longer-term view? To restrain runaway CEO pay? Answer to all four: Fulfill Bill Clinton’s...
The celebrated diplomat Samantha Power rose to prominence as a journalist and writer who condemned global inaction in the face of large-scale atrocities. Her 2002 book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, castigated the international...
In the first paragraph of his surprisingly inept and unfriendly review in the New York Review of Books of Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World? (May 2016), Kenneth Roth described the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “blunder.” This wasn’t a good sign, since it signaled...
Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic and foreign policy issues. They also discussed the place of the humanities...
When President Barack Obama was preparing for his third presidential visit to Saudi Arabia last year, he made it clear that the close U.S. ally’s human rights abuses would not be up for discussion. “Sometimes we have to balance our need to speak to them about human...
