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File this under “conspiracy theories,” although every day that goes by it seems to get more and more plausible.

The corporate media in America seems astonished that Donald Trump is polling so well among Republican voters and even independents. They shouldn’t be.

Ronald Reagan – or at least his campaign – committed treason to become president, and normalizing relations with Iran may expose the whole thing.

Back in 1963, the day before JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Richard Nixon was in that same city, along with Don Kendall, the CEO of Pepsi. While some conspiracy theorists have suggested Nixon was there to set up the Kennedy killing, in fact this was really part of Nixon's assassination of our middle class.

Rampant privatization is wreaking havoc on our society.Case in point: what's happened over the past few decades with prison phone services.

From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression to today, the economic agenda of conservatives has been easily summarized in two words: "cheap labor."

At what point does great wealth held in a few hands actually harm democracy, threatening to turn a democratic republic into an oligarchy?

Sure, the war on education helps Republican lawmakers destroy unions and slash government spending, but it's our history of progressive change that makes Conservatives hate accurate depictions of our past.

As the Citizens United ruling floods our elections with special interest money, politicians become wholly-owned subsidiaries of the oligarchy and voting rights are stripped away -Take heart.

As war-hawk Republicans hit the airwaves blaming President Obama for the rise of ISIS in Iraq, and the Congress considers (and complains about) a new authorization for the use of military force in Iraq, it’s important to take a careful, honest look back at the last 13 years in Iraq.