by Bill Scher | Jun 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Will Senate Follow House on Climate? Grist's Kate Sheppard assesses what's next following House passage of clean energy/climate protection bill: "Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued a statement congratulating...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 28, 2009 | Blog
The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world's wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever. Thirteen years ago, two firms that manage the wealth of the world’s wealthy — New...
by Eric Lotke | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
Remember a while ago I wrote about my new novel, 2044? 2044 starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace. The 2044 story is about water. Giant...
by Bill Scher | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
It took a very long time to end the fallacy that you can't protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time. But that day has come. The nail in the coffin of the canard was delivered this week, as both the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers formally endorsed...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
The debate over health care reform has taken a particularly worrisome turn. Suddenly we're in a place where passing something kind of like reform may be more important than getting to reform itself. In the name of "compromise" and in interest of getting...
