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Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement - It Isn't
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a corporate/investor rights agreement, not a "trade" agreement. "Trade" is a good thing; TPP is not. Using the word "trade" in association with TPP is helping the other side.
Forced Trade
America's deeply flawed trade policy is based on the philosophy that workers and the retired should be forced to suffer to facilitate the rich getting richer.
Progressive Breakfast
Bernie Rallies In Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders holds first presidential campaign rally today. USA Today: "At 5 p.m. ET, Sanders expects to stand on public land he fought for in the 1980s as he announces his presidential ambitions — while spectators munch Ben &...
Populists Are Driving the Ideas Primary
Big money speaks loudly in the money primary. But populists are driving the ideas primary, particularly among Democrats. And the president is discovering the effects in the debate over fast track and trade deals.
Wingnut Week In Review: Duggar Family Values Edition
This week, two right-wingers who portrayed themselves as exemplars of virtue and regularly lectured Americans on “family values” proved to be far from “pure” themselves.
Gallup Poll Finds Liberalism Ascendent, Conservatism In Decline
On economic issues, the gap between conservatives and liberals is lower today than at any point since 1999, Gallup finds. More striking is the change in ideological identification on social issues.
Progressive Breakfast
Bipartisan Coalition Breaks Progressive Fast Track Filibuster Fast track filibuster broken after Ex-Im Bank deal. The Hill: "Obama sought to help his own cause by calling [Sen. Maria] Cantwell during the vote in the Democratic cloakroom ... Obama promised to press...
The Big Banks Are Corrupt – And Getting Worse
The repercussions of the latest Justice Department deal with felonious big banks were limited to a few headlines and some scattered protestations. That’s not enough. Our financial system is corrupt by design.
Make One More Call To Senators To Stop Fast Track
The Senate is considering the rigged fast track trade process that would be used to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Please make one more call to your senators and say you want them to vote against it.
Postal Banking Idea Wins Support From Postal Service Inspector General
An Inspector General's report outlines how post officies could provide essential services to some 68 million Americans who don't have a bank account or depend on check-cashing and payday lending outfits.
