Richard Eskow
Richard (RJ) Eskowis a freelance writer. Much of his work can be found on eskow.substack.com. His weekly program, The Zero Hour, can be found on cable television, radio, Spotify, and podcast media. He is a senior advisor with Social Security Works. He can be reached at richard@thisisthezerohour.com.Follow him on Twitter: @rjeskow
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Views Friday, May 14, 2021 On Vaccine Patents, A Light Out of the Darkness The poet Robinson Jeffers once characterized the purveyors of modern greed in direct language: "They'd shit on the morning star if they could reach (it)." We're seeing the consequences of that greed in our land, seas, and skies. We're seeing it in ourselves, too. We're becoming ill and dying in the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 05, 2021 The Apocalypse Must Be Near. I Agree With Henry Kissinger—About Cold War With China The end must be near, because I agree with Henry Kissinger about something. In fact, "the end" is exactly what I agree with Kissinger about. The former secretary of state, in a video appearance with the equally execrable former Senator Joe Lieberman, had this to say about US/China relations: "It's... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 29, 2021 Nancy Pelosi and These Centrists Want Biden to Go Left on Drug Costs and Medicare These are strange days for a former Bernie Sanders staffer like me. In the days leading up to President Biden’s Wednesday speech about the American Families Act, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some pretty conservative congressional Democrats urged Biden to pivot left and do more on drug prices and... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 29, 2021 Every Person With a Conscience Is a Revolutionary Waiting to Be Born A revolutionary is, of course, someone who wants to overthrow the existing order. We need such people. The current order is unsustainable. It is destroying the planet and creating inequality so severe that society is becoming unstable. It's an engine for human misery on a massive scale. Three... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 18, 2021 As People Keep Dying, Can the President—Can We—Really Say 'We Did Everything We Could'? I was moved by President Biden’s speech marking the half-million-life milestone in US pandemic deaths. I disagree with him on a lot of issues, but he strikes me as a decent person. He’s been through more grief than anyone should have to endure. I respect and mourn his experience with loss, which he... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 04, 2021 Ma Bell with Mind Control: Liberalism, Radicalism, and the Evolving Face of Censorship Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently lamented the rise of domestic extremism in the Washington Post . "We pride ourselves on the institutions that have evolved over hundreds of years," Clapper said, adding that "legal institutions, the rule of law, protection of citizens... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 08, 2021 Note to Democrats: $1400 + $600 Does NOT Equal $2000 Under the current Democratic proposal, eligibility for COVID relief will be based on last year's income. That's like prescribing medicine today based on your temperature last April. That's not the only problem with the Democrats' cumbersome plan for what have come to be known as "stimulus checks."... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 15, 2020 After One Hundred 9/11's, Here Are 9 Life-Saving Actions Progressives Must Demand Now We have reached a deadly milestone: 300,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States. That's one hundred times as many people as died on 9/11. More people died from Covid-19 last Wednesday, in fact, than died on 9/11. Friday, too. "To stop the dying, we must act as if each of our lives depended on it... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 01, 2020 How a Rahm Emanuel Appointment Would Hurt Biden and the Democrats The skies above Washington D.C. are restricted airspace for low-flying aircraft, with one major exception. The inception of a new presidential administration fills the air with trial balloons, as job seekers and administration officials test the public reaction to possible appointments. One trial... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 03, 2020 In a Fearful Moment, We Are Honored by History Like many other Americans, this weekend I encountered a cavalcade of slow-rolling, flag-waving pickup trucks and other vehicles on my local highway – which, in my case, was the Beltway surrounding the nation’s capital. They weren’t American flags. They were blue-and-white Trump banners, an... Read more |