Richard Eskow
Richard (RJ) Eskow is Senior Advisor for Health and Economic Justice at Social Security Works and the host of The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow on Free Speech TV. Follow him on Twitter: @rjeskow
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Views Friday, September 04, 2020 David Graeber, 1961-2020: History is a Living Weapon When I was a teenager, I overheard my bass teacher commiserating with some other jazz musicians over the premature death of a colleague. “Yeah,” one said, “he was a soulful cat.” Of all the memories that might have resurfaced all these decades later, that was the one that came to mind when I... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 12, 2020 A Message to the Left About Kamala Harris—And Us Millions of people have worked for change in this country in recent years. An incomplete list includes the Occupy movement, Standing Rock, the Sunrise movement, the Bernie Sanders campaigns, Black Lives Matter, the Red State teachers' strikes, and the Women's Marches. For the activist left (I... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 08, 2020 Rehearsals for Apocalypse: From the A-Bomb to Covid-19 Who knew we'd be this bad at facing the end of the world? Most baby boomers remember the national emergency warning system known as Conelrad. The name stands for "Control of Electromagnetic Radiation"—an aspirational goal if there ever was one. Although it was used for other kinds of emergencies,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 07, 2020 The War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House’s Military Spending Bill The House Armed Services Committee just passed a defense appropriations bill filled with moral contradictions and illogical absurdities. Consider: It removes some racist symbols in the military, but preserves Trump’s ability to use the military against anti-racist demonstrators. It abdicates... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 21, 2020 John Bolton and Liberals’ Irrational Hatred of Trump In June 2019, two men sat in the Oval Office and talked of war. One was the bloated embodiment of American evil, a smug and fatuous egomaniac whose power and arrogance posed an existential threat to millions of the planet's inhabitants. The other was Donald Trump. This conversation was reported by... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Big Bank CEOs Want to ‘Listen’ to Black Communities. They Should Return Their Stolen Wealth Instead. Fox News triggered legitimate outrage last week with a graphic showing that the stock market rose after the uprisings that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, the acquittal of Rodney King’s attackers, and the murders of Michael Brown and George Floyd. But Fox performed a public... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 04, 2020 The Killers Inside Us: White Fury and the Thin Blue Line The roar of the .45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step. Her eyes were a symphony of incredulity, an unbelieving witness to truth ..."How could you?" she gasped. I had only a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in. "It was easy," I said. —"I, the Jury," Mickey Spillane "It... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 25, 2020 Let's Honor Fallen Workers on Memorial Day, Too Memorial Day, as many people know, began as a way to commemorate the 600-800,000 combatants who died fighting on both sides of the Civil War. The magnitude of that loss is hard to picture. As a percentage of the population, that’s like losing 6.2 million to 8.3 million people in this country today... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 30, 2020 It's Not a "Chinese Virus." The Correct Name Is "The Capitalism Virus" In the strange, time-bending world of the pandemic, it seems like ages since Donald Trump first referred to COVID-19 as "the Chinese virus." But it's only been about a month since that appellation left the president's lips, earning praise from conservatives like Ben Shapiro , whose commentary made... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 06, 2020 Should Bernie Drop Out or Stay In? Wait, There’s Another Choice. The question’s been raised, publicly and privately: Should Bernie Sanders quit the presidential race or keep going? It will almost certainly be asked again now that the Wisconsin primary—like so many others—has been postponed . It’s the wrong question. Bernie should do something else altogether,... Read more |