Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Here is a real life example. Donald Trump initiated a number of tariffs in his trade war with … Read more
Farmers have been devastated by Donald Trump’s trade war with China and Europe, which destroyed lucrative foreign markets it took years to build. It will take years to rebuild those markets, if at all, if they have not already been displaced by other foreign competitors. The only thing keeping many farmers financially afloat over the … Read more
60 Minutes on Sunday aired a report on the farm bailout program meant to compensate farmers for the damage Donald Trump’s trade war with China has done to their livelihood, and that was before the coronavirus pandemic hit disrupting food supply chains around the world. Family farmers, as opposed to the large agribusiness corporate conglomerates, … Read more
Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more
Update to GOP socialism Bailouts for farmers, hunger for the working poor with new SNAP (food stamp) regulations. It turns out that all the bribe money Trump is paying to America’s farmers to stick with him as a bailout of their losses from his disastrous trade war policies is not enough. Some of America’s farmers … Read more