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Occupy Wall Street Crafting a Constitutional Amendment to Stop the 1
We’ve seen the signs and heard the chants: “Abolish Corporate Personhood!” I’m very sympathetic to the cause of reducing the power of big business corporations to control our government, our economy, our consumer culture, our society, and our lives. We can’t have...
NCLB Dies Zombie Education Reforms Live On
With the collapse of the No Child Left Behind policy that has driven American education policy for at least the past decade, one would think that our nation's leaders would pause to consider the faulty thinking that brought this erroneous policy to life to begin with....
Stand With Veterans -- The Worthy 1 Percent
This year, Veterans Day should be a day for all of us — all 99 percent of us — to stand with the 1 percent. Not, as Jim Hightower writes, the "corporate CEOs and hedge fund billionaires," but the "extra-special 1 percent of our society"...
Stop the Supercommitees Devils Bargain Against the 99 Percent
According to a document produced by Democrats serving on the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee, the Democrats are proposing to cut $350 billion from Medicare as part of a $2.3 trillion "grand bargain" to reduce the deficit. It's time for the people to say...
Don’t Buy Into Generational Warfare Keep the Super Committee Accountable to the 99
The 12-member Super Committee is down to its final two weeks to produce a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. According to recent reports, both Democratic and Republican proposals have contained sizable cuts from Social Security, Medicare, and...
Time To Retire The Greedy Geezers Myth
By now you've probably heard about the new supplemental poverty measure produced by the Census Bureau, which says 49.1 million Americans are living in poverty, compared to 46.2 million under the official measure. But did you know that the supplemental measure blows a...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/10/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Americans Decide...
Sorry GOP Looks Like Americas B*llsh*t Detector Just Went Off
It's great when we can disagree in a civilized way, but it's getting pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that the phrase "right-wing logic," as delivered by the GOP and mimicked by Mitt Romney, has become the mother of all oxymorons. They tell us corporations are...
People Power Wins In Ohio And Beyond
Many of the efforts around the country to advance an extreme, right-wing, corporatist agenda on the public were repudiated Tuesday night. The message is clear: An informed and energized 99 percent can prevail over those in the 1 percent who are working to strip them...
Its The Trade Deficit
A huge part of the reason we can't get out of this unemployment slump is the trade deficit. We don't buy American and neither do our "trade partners." We buy from them, they sell to us -- that's not "trade." Stimulus means we buy from them. Cutting taxes means the...
