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Senate Eyes Another Citi Nominee For Deputy Trade Representative
On Wednesday the Senate Finance Committee will hold an executive session to consider Marisa Lago to be deputy U.S. trade representative – another revolving-door Wall Street nominee to a key position.
When Trade Theories Confront The Real World, The Real World Wins
"More trade is always good." Is that really right? Do our current international trade policies as applied under our current economic order a good thing or a bad thing for We the People of the United States?
Meet The Billionaires Who Pillage Under the Shield of Philanthropy
America’s parasitical oligarchs are masters of public relations. One of their favorite tactics is to masquerade as defenders of the common folk while neatly arranging things behind the scenes so that they can continue to plunder unimpeded.
Oil Corporations Scheme to Export America’s Security
On the demand of oilmen for more profit, the Senate Energy Committee voted to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil - giving oil-rich Middle Eastern countries additional power to crush the U.S. economy with another oil embargo.
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Plan Climate Attack Conservative ready assault on Obama's climate regs. The Hill: "...the National Mining Association struck first, lodging a formal request Monday for a stay ... [There will be] legislative maneuvering and legal assaults at both the state...
Obama's Climate Plan: Is It Good Enough?
Fault lines are emerging in response to the administration's Clean Power Plan, the EPA rule designed to cut carbon emissions from power plants 32 percent by 2030. How can we make sense of it, and what should activists do next?
Puerto Rico's Creditors in Denial and Its People in the Crosshairs
Because Congress won’t let Puerto Rico declare bankruptcy, the island’s creditors need to come to terms with the futility of austerity and accept that their money is not coming back.
The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
Political insiders don’t see that the biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the “ruling class” of insiders that have dominated Washington for more than three decades.
Why the TPP Trade Talks Stalled, and What We'll Have to Watch For Next
TPP is not dead. There is still time to squeeze this through Congress before the real Presidential campaign season begins if they can complete TPP in August.
How Our Inequality Is Corrupting 'Success'
In any society that winks as great stashes of wealth amass at the top, philosopher Elizabeth Anderson reminds us, the wealthy will sooner or later see most of the rest of us as failures.
