May 2017 — American Delusions

Movie – War Machine – a misplaced parable

May 28, 2017 Comments Off

Netflix has just released War Machine onto the streaming media waters. This movie fits into the long tradition of American media mostly puffing up our military exploits or turning them into light tragi-comedy. Brad Pitt, applying --->> read more -->>

Update on Trump’s Mental Capacities

May 26, 2017 Comments Off

The state of Trump’s mind has been a matter of continuous discussion ever since he came on the scene as a presidential candidate. Mental health professionals have weighed in despite their professions rules against doing --->> read more -->>

Naive Talk about Healthcare from Adam Davidson in the New Yorker

May 25, 2017 Comments Off

Adam Davidson writing today in The New Yorker offered us “A BIPARTISAN WAY TO IMPROVE MEDICAL CARE – A straightforward change would save money and improve health. So why isn’t Congress talking about it?” This --->> read more -->>

Trump’s Innovations in Governing

May 15, 2017 Comments Off

The Plutocrats Have Occupied the White House and Executive Branch It has been a fact of American life for decades that the rich and corporations control our political system. But this control has been exercised always --->> read more -->>

The Global Context of the US Healthcare Debate

May 14, 2017 Comments Off

The solution to our healthcare fiasco is first to recognize its true nature and then to face down those who are consuming a fifth of our economic output while producing profoundly bad results. We need --->> read more -->>

America’s Longest War and Attorney General Sessions

May 13, 2017 Comments Off

Attorney General Sessions clearly knows no history, even that of his own lifetime. He is just another petty, cyclical political hack thrust into a prominent position. Nixon’s War on Drugs which Sessions is now re-intensifying --->> read more -->>

Recently Noted – about racism

May 12, 2017 Comments Off

from the New York Times: How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices — and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class. --->> read more -->>

Firing Comey and Trump as Solipsism

May 10, 2017 Comments Off

In his letter firing James Comey, now former Director of the FBI, Trump once again displayed the completely self-centered world that he inhabits. The second paragraph in this thankfully short letter reads: While I greatly --->> read more -->>

Trump – understanding the pathology

May 10, 2017 Comments Off

The strangeness that is Trump seems an endless topic of conversation. Several months ago I wondered about early signs of dementia in “Is Trump Showing Signs of Ageing?” Ongoing I have wondered about his weird --->> read more -->>

Obama, Wall St. and Big Money

May 8, 2017 Comments Off

Edited 5/9/2017 (Originally published as “Obama and the Future of the Democratic Party”) President Obama achieved some remarkable things during his eight years. Action on income and wealth inequality were not among them. He surrounded --->> read more -->>