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 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 |
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Views Monday, March 30, 2020 Jerry Brown: Zen and the Art of Pandemic Response People from all walks of life, including many leftists, were electrified by the meteoric rise of Jerry Brown, who first became California‘s governor in 1974 and returned to that office in the 21 st century. It’s easy to see why. Brown was, and is, a politician unlike any other. Jesuitically trained... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 28, 2020 How Many Nedas? Iran Sanctions Are Biological Warfare Against Civilians The world was rightfully shocked and outraged in 2005 by the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian woman shot during a protest . “She was a person full of joy,” said her music teacher, who was with her when she died. “She was a beam of light.” According to her teacher, Neda’s last words were... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 24, 2020 No, I Will Not Die for This Damned Economy Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick received a lot of attention Monday night when, according to many progressives, he seemed to tell Tucker Carlson that he was willing to die in order to preserve the American economy. But this economy is damned. Merriam-Webster defines "damned" as "to bring ruin on," or... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 06, 2020 Of Course Bloomberg's an Oligarch—and He's Coming For Your Social Security A recent exchange on MSNBC turned viral after Nina Turner, a national campaign co-chair for Bernie Sanders, described billionaire Michael Bloomberg as an “oligarch.” That drew a heated response from MSNBC contributor and political science professor Jason Johnson, who insisted that Turner’s word... Read more |