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FAA Bill Still Anti-Labor Call Your Senators

Not long ago, in A Win For Labor - FAA Bill Drops Anti-Union Language, I wrote that, "negotiators have dropped the anti-union language for votes to start a union. Republicans were insisting that no-shows be counted as "No" votes. Delta's check must have been mailed...

Americas Plutocrats Play the Political Ponies

Any resemblance between democracy and U.S. Presidential politics has become, in our new super PAC era, purely coincidental. The only mystery: Why aren't billionaires placing even bigger bets? Life sometimes imitates art. Life also sometimes imitates political cliché....

Caught In A Machine That Grinds Us Up

This is Part II of Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities. See Part I, Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities - Workers, Customers and Country As Costs. Also see Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People. In Part I I wrote about a pattern we see over...

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