Posts by JAkzam
American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off
It has been no secret that for decades, actually since the dawning of “civilization”, big business has built its empire on the backs of exploited labor, either in the form of direct slavery or in wage slavery. Why we fight. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images In a recent article by New York Magazine, a study is…
Read MoreThe Self Inflicted
The simple idea that we, as humans, have somehow evolved, through the advent of “civilization,” glosses over millennia of hierarchal domination over billions of other humans, which is necessary for those few to maintain their version of “civilization.” Why do masses of humans forfeit their lives to the domination of others, only to live horribly torturous…
Read MoreEnvironmental Coffee House Interview
Savage Joy – Real Progressives Interview
Revolutionary Roundtable – CFAR – Real Progressives
Real Progressives – Dr. Joseph M. Firestone
Independent Outsider Interview
Open Letter to Minnesotans
Dear Minnesotans, You do realize that Congress makes decisions that affect the entire nation, right? So when you ask me what am I going to do for Minnesota, or how am I going to bring jobs to Minnesota or how am I going to enact social justice in Minnesota, you realize that is an egocentric…
Read MoreOriginal Draft – FDR Fundraiser Dinner
Two local Minnesota DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) units put on an annual fundraiser in the namesake of FDR. Originally, the speech time was set to 4 minutes. It later got cut to 2 minutes, so the speech got cut quite a bit as well. Following is the original speech, including the first part, reciting FDR himself, in…
Read MoreFountain of U.S. Economics
Working Analogy in Progress Trying to figure out the U.S. economy and the flow of currency can be a monumental task for anyone not familiar with Modern Monetary Theories of macroeconomics. I’m by no means an expert economist. But I’m friends with a few, and I have contact with a few more. Through my own…
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