As the 2020 election year in the US continues, Trump will almost certainly replay this Iran provocation card again
Evidence lately is leaking out that Trump and his neocon foreign policy radical advisors have been planning the assassination at least since late December, and probably earlier
Has the US Crossed the Escalation to War Rubicon?
44% of all US workers, age 18-64 (53 million) now hold low wage jobs with median annual earning of just $17,950
A Post-Mortem on the UK Election
The Trump administration, with Democrats & AFLCIO leaders in tow, announced new final revisions and deal with Mexico on the new NAFTA 2.0 free trade agreement called the USMCA
It’s a statistical manipulation–based on a series of complex assumptions and even more complex mathematical formula adjustments of the raw jobs data–that gets reported monthly as the job numbers
The correlation between the rise and expansion of Neoliberalism and the decline of democracy in the US is irrefutable
The analysis of Neoliberalism to date has produced so many interpretations, often contradictory, that readers remain confused as to what exactly it means
A deeper look at the official wage and job numbers shows wages rising nowhere near the official 3.1 percent. In fact, most of the wage gains are highly skewed to the very top
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