by Leo Gerard | Jul 3, 2012 | Blog
America commemorates its Independence Day this week with food, festivity and fireworks. To supply these events, Mitt Romney recommends: Buy foreign. Americans naturally think the patriotic choice would be to buy American. But for Romney, capitalism trumps patriotism....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The Phony "Generational War": It's Like the Hunger Games, But With Old People Ourfuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Like the Hunger Games, this spectacle only distracts us from the real economic injustices in our society. In an economy where most people's...
by Bill Scher | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
President Obama has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives. His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. Johnson’s relentless arm-twisting. His willingness...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
Millions of people have read the Hunger Games stories, about a depraved future society where young people are forcing to fight each other for scarce resources while elites in the Capital plunder the nation's wealth. Now take a look at our world, where Washington's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The Tea Party's 1776 Schtick Sam Pizzigati on OurFuture.org: "The Founders, claimed Tea Party types, wouldn’t abide government interference in their lives. And neither should we. … No new taxes. Ever. Not even on the super rich. Forget that...
