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Occupy Movement Is Spreading And Growing
Our captured government won’t do its job. It doesn't keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn't prosecute them after they do. It doesn't stop polluters - even as the effects of climate change increase. It doesn't enforce...
Move Your Money Moved 50 Million; Goal Is 1 Billion
The New Bottom Line, one of the organizations leading the "move your money" movement and the national "Bank Transfer Day" on Saturday, announced today that nearly $50 million had been removed from Bank of America and other Wall Street banks. With that as a start, the...
Super Committee May Be The Real Turkey This Thanksgiving
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. I predicted two things in the Sept. 6 Fiscal Fitness — the first published after the Budget Control Act was signed into law this past Aug. 2 — that are coming true faster than I, even on my most cynical days, would have...
Will Grover Come Over
Brian Beutler has the latest on the Super Committee machinations: Super Committee Republicans are floating a trial balloon that would produce new tax revenue, in apparent contravention of Grover Norquist’s taxpayer protection pledge, according to Wall Street Journal...
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...
