Author: KJ McElrath

The Unholy Alliance Between Big Oil and Big Tobacco: It’s Been Going On For Decades

The Unholy Alliance Between Big Oil and Big Tobacco: It’s Been Going On For Decades

Posted by | Jul 21, 2016 | , , |

Over the past several months, The Ring of Fire and other Progressive media outlets have reported on how Big Oil (particularly Exxon-Mobil) has been covering up evidence of climate change since the 1970s. It turns out that the cover up has been going on far longer. In fact, Exxon-Mobil’s corporate ancestor, Humble Oil, was manipulating scientific information in order to influence public opinion as long ago as the 1940s. It’s similar to the way Big Tobacco had been covering its own rear end since medical science started making connection between smoking and lung cancer in the 1930s. Similarities between...

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Hillary Clinton Says As President, She Will Overturn Citizen’s United – Can She Deliver?

Hillary Clinton Says As President, She Will Overturn Citizen’s United – Can She Deliver?

Posted by | Jul 19, 2016 | , , , |

Now that she is firmly ensconced as the Democratic Presidential Nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton is beginning to sound more and more like her defeated rival, Bernie Sanders. Whether it is because she needs to win over Bernie’s supporters or because she’s seen the progressive light, the nominee who has been labeled as the Democratic Party’s “Wall Street Candidate” by progressives is actively addressing one of the hot-button issues of our time: the disastrous Supreme Court decision known as “Citizen’s United.” Over the weekend, Clinton promised to introduce a Constitutional amendment to overturn that decision, if elected, but can she...

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Big Pharma Does It Again: ADD/ADHD “Treatment” Is Driving Young People to Suicide

Big Pharma Does It Again: ADD/ADHD “Treatment” Is Driving Young People to Suicide

Posted by | Jul 18, 2016 | , |

It’s the same old story, again and again. In a mad rush to maximize revenues and increase profits, Big Pharma creates “disorders” and “diseases,” then quickly develops “treatments,” which are then aggressively marketed to a public desperate for a quick and easy fix. In this case, the “disorder” is ADD/ADHD – and the latest “treatment” is called methylphenidate hci  – currently being marketed by our old friends at Janssen Pharmaceutica, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson as Concerta. Concerta is similar to Ritalin; both medications are methylphenidates. Methylphenidate was first developed in the mid-1940s by the CIBA Pharmaceutical Company...

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The GOP Says It’s Not The Role Of Gov’t To Make College Affordable; Then Whose Job Is It!?

The GOP Says It’s Not The Role Of Gov’t To Make College Affordable; Then Whose Job Is It!?

Posted by | Jul 16, 2016 | |

It is no secret that the cost of higher education – without which it is virtually impossible to make a decent living in today’s America – has skyrocketed out of control. Where the previous generation was able to work their way through college on a livable minimum wage, today’s college graduates are saddled with crushing debts that follow them beyond the grave. Congress and the GOP have seen to the current situation. After cutting and cutting federal funding and support for higher education for decades, the have passed legislation that prevents student loans from being discharged in bankruptcy. If...

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Bernie May Have Lost The Nomination – But He Won the Most Progressive Platform in Decades

Bernie May Have Lost The Nomination – But He Won the Most Progressive Platform in Decades

Posted by | Jul 13, 2016 | , , |

Cheer up, Bernie supporters. Our candidate may have had to concede the nomination to his rival, Hillary Clinton – whom he has officially endorsed, but all is not lost. Sanders’ historic campaign has accomplished what those of us on the left could only dream about a year ago – a truly Progressive platform for the Democratic Party. In short, Bernie Sanders has succeeded in doing what many in progressive media had hoped for By actively speaking out on the issues of income inequality and growing poverty in the wealthiest nation on earth, he has indeed forced the Democratic Party...

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