During neoliberalism, democracy in America has devolved into a business with voters as consumers. The products (our choices, whether they be options for candidates or [...]
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Butte, America has never been able to add value to the raw materials that made it famous as the Richest Hill on Earth. Rather, the [...]
When the Racist Death Cult (R) invokes the symbol of Jane Fonda, because they will always live politically in a Cold War, it won't be [...]
The business model of a franchisor is to extract maximum profit from all franchisees while limiting liability for any adverse consequences of making money—the dominant [...]
Presidential campaigns are little more than grifts for campaign consultants to manipulate public opinion about a particular candidate. The Racist Death Cult (R) has perfected [...]
Greg Gianforte is a dot.com billionaire turned Republican politician in Montana. He is currently the richest member of the US House of Representatives, and is [...]
Max Baucus, Montana's Senator for six terms starting in 1978, ended his political career as President Obama's last Ambassador to China. A conservative Democrat, his [...]
I don't invoke the issue of mental health lightly: my older brother suffered for several decades from schizophrenia. But the damage done by the Exxon [...]
At the Lyndon Johnson National Historic Park the push button narration about the creation of Medicare is broken. Neoliberalism's greatest achievement is the degradation of [...]
The Colstrip Power Plant, which is generating the plumes of pollution on the horizon, has an unhealthy influence on politics in Montana. The plant burns [...]
The Bakken oil field, and its center of Watford City in North Dakota, is just north of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, part of which was [...]
Housing for oilfield workers in the Bakken was in short supply and very expensive while oil prices exploded. Man camps popped up everywhere overnight as [...]
Driving through the American Northern Plains on a perfect late-spring day, and then the landscape is on fire. There is so much natural gas being [...]
Most dollar stores do make money, off of the failure of the capitalist economy to actually pay people. Dollar Tree also owns Family Dollar. They [...]
It is fitting that an entertainer was the first neoliberal president. Reagan was really only interested in cutting taxes and regulations on capitalists, and managed [...]
Milltown, MT, along with adjacent Bonner and both in the heart of the timber wars since the Sagebrush Rebellion, was until recently the company town [...]
Montana once had a Democratic Party that lived up to its current branding as the “Party of the People.” It grew out of the coalition [...]
Where I went to school for a Master of Fine Arts, at the beginning of neoliberal America, some of the faculty and former students were [...]
Environmental destruction by corporate agriculture and fossil fuel extraction is being forced on all the critters that call the American Northern Plains home. In not [...]
What you can't see in this note is the opposite view (you'll have to trust me: if I had a photo I would have referenced [...]
The US Postal Service is enumerated in the Constitution, and as such it has developed into one of the logistical miracles of the modern world. [...]
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