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Pentagon bought 1 million counterfeit parts from China
America's defense supply chain put at risk by purchase of counterfeit, salvaged products from China. The U.S. Department of Defense has been buying counterfeit electronic parts from China. A Senate Armed Services Committee investigation led by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI)...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/8/2011
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. A Super Committee "Failure"...
Meet The Problem 25 Senators Voted To Build Bridge To Nowhere In 2005 And Against Building Bridges Today
Ed Luce of the Financial Times made an astute observation today, regarding the mostly Republican group of senators that filibustered the most recent legislation to invest $60 billion in creating infrastructure jobs: Until now, America has never faced an ideological...
Time for Supercommittee To Fail
“I have great respect for each of you individually, but collectively I’m worried you’re going to fail — fail the country,” former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, a co-chairman of President Obama’s fiscal commission, sternly told the congressional...
Why George Will Thinks Losing 24000 Jobs Is A Good Thing
I am beginning to understand George Will. Normally, that would worry me in too many ways to count, and it would be cause enough for my progressive friends to stage an intervention. So let me be clear, before I find myself facing just such a situation, I did not say I...
Rebels and Messiahs 10 Spiritual Ancestors for Occupy Wall Street
We started to make a list of people throughout history who might be considered Occupy Wall Street's spiritual forefathers and mothers, but it got so long it felt like the album cover for Sgt. Pepper. Remember all those faces? So with great difficulty the list has been...
Who Pays For Austerity
This analyses of our current economic battle by Thomas Edsall gets to the heart of the issue: The economic collapse of 2008 transformed American politics. In place of shared abundance, battles at every level of government now focus on picking the losers who will bear...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/7/2011
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: "Super Committee"...
Young Turks Video Clip - Rick Perry Asks Occupy Movement Whats With the Money Hangup Man
Incredible but true: In a television interview, Rick Perry told the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators not to think about money so much. "Just find your passion," said Perry. "Stop thinking about money." The other day Yours Truly co-hosted The Young Turks with Brian...
Rags to Riches Who Should Really Care
The defenders of privilege just don’t seem to get it. In truly decent societies we measure success by how many people are leading rich, fulfilling lives, not by counting how many people are becoming rich beyond measure. Mobility, apologists for America's grand...
