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Fifty Years Later: Delivering On The Dream
This week thousands gathered to remember the 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," and recommit to Dr. King's unfinished dream. But the challenge of delivering on the dream remains.
Racketeering Then and Racketeering Now
Back in Al Capone’s day, Prohibition helped give rise to a rash of epic crime-boss fortunes. On Wall Street today, deregulation has spawned an entire new generation of fabulously rich racketeers.
Congress, Public Waking Up To Trans-Pacific Partnership Threat
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being negotiated by corporate interests, without participation by labor, environmental, consumer, human rights or other stakeholders. Guess whose interests it will promote and whose it will bury.
The Un-American Way
The United States is negotiating a NAFTA-style trade deal that should be alarming to American consumers. The main reason it’s not getting much attention is that the mainstream media is largely ignoring it.
Tea Party - Doubling Down On Stupid
Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint says the uninsured will get better care by "going to the emergency room." It's hard to believe that anybody's out there making the case for using the emergency room, but there you have it.
It's Time For The Masses To Be Represented In Congress.
This won't come as a surprise to many of you, unless you are a bankster or a billionaire, you're not being represented in the United States Senate. Senators in the last five Congresses have consistently voted to benefit their wealthy constituents.
Progressive Breakfast
Dream Deferred, Now Due Peter Dreier, writing at WaPo, asks "What would King march for today?": "What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. march for if he were alive today? America has made progress on many fronts in the half-century since King electrified a crowd of...
Honor Dr. King’s Revolutionary Vision by Fighting For It
Our nation is about to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s words about our values, our economy and our human rights should be our touchstone. They should also challenge us.
AP Goes Off The Deep End With Deficit Scold David Walker
On Wednesday the Associated Press fielded its entry in the "classics in bad reporting on economic policy" contest: a profile it did of David Walker, former president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
The “Bankization” of America
Why would the stock market fall because there was good economic news? Our economy is increasingly dominated by banking interests - and increasingly detached from the real world and its people. Can we stop the "bankization" of America?
