Joe Bageant
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Worker rights: No balls, no gains By Joe Bageant
From the Depression through World War II the Teamsters Union became a powerful entity, and a popular one too because of such things as its pledge never to strike during the war or a national emergency. President Roosevelt even had a special designated liaison to the Teamsters. But power and money eventually drew the usual… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: A redneck view of the Obamarama
When it comes to expressing plain truths, few are as gifted as American rednecks. During recent travels in the Appalachian communities of West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky I’ve collected scores of their comments on our national condition and especially President Barack Obama. Continue reading
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Revenge of the Mutt People Joe Bageant
Source: Revenge of the Mutt People by Joe Bageant January 12, 2006 Bred for meanness ‘There are some things so disgusting that only a white man would be willing to do them.’ — Walter Wildshoe, Coeur d’Alene Indian Many years ago I worked at an industrial hog farm owned by the Coeur d’Alene Indian tribe Continue reading
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Dead Man Shopping by Joe Bageant
—Stonewall Jackson prays for retail sales in the lost potpourri zone (CONSUMER WARNING: This essay contains no rant material.) By Joe Bageant Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the engine of job creation. —Ronald Reagan I never met a small businessman yet who didn’t have one finger up his ass and the Continue reading
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About that sweatshop in your head By William Bowles
12 September 2006 Anybody who has read Joe Bageant’s excellent cries of rage[1] here will surely sympathise with the guy, stuck as he is firmly in the craw of a totally insane beast. The question is, who will choke first? As of writing, all bets are off. Yet before I go off half-cocked it’s worth Continue reading
The New Dark Age 