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Category: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?

By Ellen Brown Guest Commentator

The Fed is doubling down on what appears to be a failed policy, driving the economy to the brink of recession without bringing prices down appreciably.

There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a November 2 press conference, — this despite eight months…

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Cartoonish Candidates Aside, the Far Right Is No Laughing Matter

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus Guest Commentator

The far right in the United States is potentially just one election and one declared "state of emergency" away from dismantling the "deep state" and subverting democracy from within.

It's easy to dismiss Herschel Walker as the hapless face of the far right. Yes, he lost. But he lost by less than 1 percent of…

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Senator Warnock’s Re-Election is a Victory for Social Security

By Nancy J. Altman, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

It is a loss for Republican politicians and their Wall Street donors who are determined to reach into our pockets and steal our hard earned benefits.

f Social Security was on the ballot in Georgia’s December 6 run-off election. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock’s re-election is a win for working families. It is…

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The Bewildering Reality of Mass Shootings

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Kelly Loving Daniel Aston Derrick Rump Ashley Paugh Raymond Green Vance

Police are continuing to investigate the motive behind the shooting in which five people were killed and at least 18 others wounded. The suspected gunman, 22-year-old…

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Why Did Eisenhower Fail in 1961?

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

Permanent war is the new normal in America, justified as always in terms of making the world safe for democracy.

W.J. Astore In 1961, in his famous farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned America about the military-industrial complex. He said it potentially posed a grave…

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Republican Infighting Has Already Begun

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

across nearly all regions of the nation, Republicans did not do as well as expected.

The Republican Party endured considerable humiliation on election night, as their much-anticipated “red wave” turned out to be a red thud. There are races yet to…

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Democrats Didn’t Win—They Simply Held the Line

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Democrats made greater gains than expected, winning races in both the Senate and the House that they didn’t expect.

Yes, it was a relief that increasingly fascist Republicans didn’t sweep the midterms. But our democratic standards cannot fall so low as to accept a split…

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Wes Moore Jr Becomes the First Black Governor of Maryland

By Larry Matthews Guest Commentator

His personal history, the values he grew up with, his magnetism, his intelligence are now in service to the people of Maryland. Fairness, equity, justice.

In November of 1981, Wes Moore Sr. and I were reporters for a Washington, D.C. radio station. We were sent to Richmond to cover the election…

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Democrats Keep Control of the Senate – Democracy Is Saved!

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

What we can look forward to is two more years of divided, do-nothing government in Washington, DC, with politics being dominated by Donald Trump’s new run for the presidency

I woke up to the news the Democrats will keep control of the Senate through 2024. Democracy is saved! I guess the Russian bots didn’t steal…

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Excelsior Springs, Missouri Horror Story

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

despite credible evidence and repeatedly being alerted of the situation several times, police officials adamantly denied the idea of a serial killer.

Unfortunately, horror once again gripped Excelsior Springs, Missouri, a community in the suburbs of Kansas City where a local church leaders claimed four Black women have…

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