Author: Marty Aussenberg

Guess what? The FTC has given the oil companies a clean bill of health, insofar as price gouging. To quote Claude Rains’ character (Captain Renault’s) famous remark in the film “Casablanca,” I was shocked, shocked...

The question arises: what is the government’s (and, in particular, the Bush administration’s) motivation for its domestic surveillance and recently revealed telephone data gathering programs? Oh sure, they say...

Those of you who are in a business where a substantial portion of your cost is the raw material you use or convert into a finished product will recognize the concept I’m about to run by you. It’s an elementary...

It now seems beyond question that, at the very least, Karl Rove will be indicted for perjury, false statements and/or obstruction of justice in what’s come to be known as “Plamegate” (the outing of a CIA agent to extract...

Civil War? What civil war? In a page taken from the Clinton “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is,” the powers that be in the Bush Administration are bending over backwards to deny that the sectarian violence...