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.
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Views Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Democrats Who Vote For Pompeo Will Disgrace Themselves and Their Party Imagine a nominee for Secretary of State who is so bigoted that he once accused Christian organizations and houses of worship of remaining silent about crimes committed in the name of Christianity by groups like the far-right Army of God or the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army of Joseph Kony. Imagine... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 18, 2018 We Need a Housing Revolution Now Here’s an experiment: If you’re not downtown as you read this, go there now and find some homeless people. They probably won’t be hard to find. Now, look at their faces. If you can’t get downtown, look at their photographs online . Now, imagine these same faces – just the faces – without anything... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 16, 2018 7 Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren’t Being Asked “ Mission accomplished ,” says the President. What, exactly, was the mission? And what exactly was accomplished? Donald Trump is being mocked for using this phrase in a tweet to praise what he claims was a “perfectly executed” airstrike against chemical weapons facilities in Syria. This recalls... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 02, 2018 Is the ‘Liberal World Order’ Worth Saving? Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently wrote a column entitled “ Liberal World Order, R.I.P .” Haass sees the post-World War II order succumbing to centrifugal forces. He foresees a fragmented and chaotic world made up of “regional orders” or “disorders”, along with... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 26, 2018 This Is What Makes John Bolton So Dangerous Snowpocalypse.” “Robo-apocalypse.” “Retail apocalypse.” Casual references to annihilation pop up every day in American life. That makes it harder to communicate the danger posed by Donald Trump’s appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor Bolton has poor judgement, a mean spirit, and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 21, 2018 There’s Fake News on Your Television, Too There is increasing public concern about the political manipulation of Facebook and Twitter by private corporations and foreign actors, and it’s certainly warranted. Social media, especially Facebook, are increasingly mediating their users’ realities in ways that traditional broadcasters can only... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 19, 2018 The Resistance Needs Better Heroes A movement without memory is adrift. And a movement that picks the wrong heroes is lost. Two milestones should serve as reminders to self-styled members of the Resistance. One marks a turning point in the life of an ill-chosen hero. The other is a reminder that true heroism calls for self-awareness... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 13, 2018 The $24 Million Reasons Dems Back America’s Worst Banks Why would 16 Democratic senators join their Republican colleagues in pushing a bill that lays out a rich banquet of goodies before some of America’s worst bankers, and increases the risk that taxpayers will have to bail them out? Here are 24 million reasons: These 16 Democrats have collectively... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 02, 2018 Ben Carson’s Redecoration of HUD is Worse Than You Think Ben Carson, the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, received some unwanted attention this week over a $ 31,000 dining room set that was ordered for his office, reportedly at his wife’s request. The average income for a rural household receiving rental assistance from Carson’s department is... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Picture the United States Without Student Debt Picture the United States without student debt. It’s a country with a larger, more vibrant economy than the one we have today. It’s a country where more than a million people, including many people who never went to college, have jobs they would not otherwise have. A new report from Bard College’s... Read more |