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A Conversation On Obama / Xi China 'Summit' Outcome
This week I hosted a blogger call to discuss the outcome of last week's Friday/Saturday meetings between President Obama and Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping. None of this matters much, unless you care about your job,...
Boehner's New Debt Limit Ransom: Cuts On Top Of Sequester
With the House Republican caucus still squabbling over what ransom they should demand for an increase in the debt limit, Speaker John Boehner issued his own threat yesterday. According to Roll Call, Boehner wants "another round of spending cuts beyond the sequester."...
Sign This Declaration For A Positive New Direction For American Education
The growing revolution against top-down education mandates based on high-stakes testing and standardization has been building over the months into a widespread Education Spring. Every revolution needs a declaration calling for a positive, new way forward. This week,...
One Step Closer To Ending The Underground Economy
The Senate is on the verge of preventing an initial filibuster of the bipartisan immigration reform bill, with several Republican votes in support of proceeding. Despite all the trumped up "scandals," the Republican Party shows little interest in derailing the top...
Court Grants Corporations Impunity to Mug Retirees
When a kid snatches an old lady’s purse, it’s punished as a crime. But when a corporation manipulates bankruptcy law to deny thousands of retired coal miners benefits they labored their entire lives to earn, it’s endorsed by federal court. Late last month, a...
Austerity Is Dead – So Can We Fix The Infrastructure NOW?
You might have heard that "austerity is dead." You'll certainly be hearing it, and with good reason: the U.S. deficit is down more than 50 percent from what President Bush left behind, projections of the rise in medical costs that drove future deficits are way down,...
Big Money and the NSA Scandal ... How Dangerous is the "Security/Digital Complex"?
It should be self-evident that recent NSA revelations bring up some grave concerns about civil liberties. But they also raise other profound and troubling questions - about the privatization of our military, our culture's inflated expectations for digital technology,...
Billionaire Says The Rich Are Not Job Creators!
One of our nation's richest men, billionaire Nick Hanauer, just destroyed the GOP's economic talking points. In a testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Hanauer explained why rich people like him are not, in fact, the real job creators. He said, “In the same way that it's a fact that the sun, not earth, is the center of the solar system, it's also a fact that the middle class, not rich business people like me, are the center of America's economy.”
Block Fast Track To Fix Or Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership Corporate Takeover
You know how big-company lobbyists get some states to pass laws that block cities and counties from doing something about problems like tobacco or guns? Well there is a "trade" treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the works that sets down international rules...
How The Few Have Chosen Inequality For The Many
The last couple of months in Washington have been punctuated by burst of excitement as policymakers and pundits reacted to what to them was good news for the economy. The stock market is up. Consumer spending is up. Housing is booming again. The era of "uncertainty"...
