by Isaiah J. Poole | May 1, 2012 | Blog
In one sense, Sunday's New York Times story on how Apple avoids paying U.S. taxes is not a surprise. In 2010 Bloomberg News exposed how another technology titan, Google, managed to lower its tax rate to a measly 2.4 percent. And, as the New York Times story notes, the...
by Leo Gerard | May 1, 2012 | Blog
Corporations, 1 percenters and Republicans want to take America back. And by that they mean all the way to the 1780s when wealthy white men controlled the nation. Because only they could vote. In the intervening 230 or so years, America became increasingly democratic,...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog
Finally, someone's giving NJ governor Chris Christie (whom fellow blogger Richard Eskow rightly dubbed, "The Heartless, Smug, Bullying Embodiment Of The Republican Party") as good as he dishes out. At the Daily Beast, author Stephen King has posted a response to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog, Economy
President Obama spoke today at the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department Legislative Conference in Washington, asking Republicans to stop blocking infrastructure and transportation projects. (See transcript here.) These projects would immediately...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog
(Note - updated with audio of meeting and video of protests taking place outside, at bottom of post.) I attended the GE shareholder meeting in Detroit today. The beginning of the meeting was disrupted by people from the 99% Spring movement and 99% Power respectfully...
