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The boom isn’t happening: Jobs report shows unemployment worsening

May 10, 2021 Gary Wilson

No matter how you look at it, the Labor Department’s April jobs report is miserable — unless you’re on Wall Street. The stock market hit record highs after the report was released. Business Insider […]

U.S.-Japan statement threatens China with nuclear weapons

April 18, 2021 Gary Wilson

On April 16, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the first foreign leader to visit the Biden White House, issued a joint statement lashing out at China. The statement, which covers […]

Korean missile launches are for self-defense

March 28, 2021 Gary Wilson

U.S. President Joe Biden said at his first major news conference that North Korea was a top foreign policy crisis for his administration, and that Washington would “respond accordingly” if Pyongyang continued to carry out […]

GameStop mania: The real losers in Wall Street gambling

February 3, 2021 Gary Wilson

How crazy is the stock market? The stock of the totally bankrupt Blockbuster Video chain store — all stores closed in 2014 — surged more than 700% on Jan. 26. The stock of AMC, the […]

Trump and the Pentagon in coup attempt

January 14, 2021 Gary Wilson

Make no mistake about it: Trump and the Pentagon played key roles in the Jan. 6 coup attempt at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon was deeply involved. Members of the U.S. military, both […]

Wall Street’s New Year’s party: Dancing on the backs of poor workers

January 4, 2021 Gary Wilson

“Wall Street sets new highs to end 2020,” the Associated Press reported on Jan. 1, 2021. “Wall Street closed out a tumultuous year for stocks with more record highs on Thursday, a fitting coda to […]

Spies are going to spy. Five questions on the so-called Russian hack

December 24, 2020 Gary Wilson

“Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect,” was the Dec. 13 New York Times headline on a report by David Sanger. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said the hack is “virtually a declaration of […]

Mass voter opposition leaves rulers of the world’s largest economy in a struggle for stability

December 16, 2020 Gary Wilson

Donald Trump was the biggest loser in the November election. In a record turnout of the voting-eligible population, 51.4% of the vote went to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Donald Trump and Mike Pence got […]

Why won’t Congress deliver badly needed stimulus checks?

December 6, 2020 Gary Wilson

“Stimulus bill and checks not likely to arrive before Biden takes office,” Newsweek reported on Dec. 5. On Dec. 2, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that they had offered […]

A revolutionary situation?

November 13, 2020 Gary Wilson

Nov. 12 — An upheaval is underway. The vote against Donald Trump, while expected by many, was more significant than any had predicted. Despite multifarious efforts to suppress the Black and Latinx vote, Joe Biden’s […]