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MORNING MESSAGE: As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: As Federal Prosecutors Cash In, Big Bankers Go Unpunished OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "We needed heroes after the financial crisis. Instead we got bureaucrats, compromisers, and perhaps something much worse. Federal law enforcement officials,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: To End Extreme Poverty, Let’s Try Ending Extreme Wealth OurFuture.org's Sam Pizzigati: "Apologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who calls for a more equal distribution of the world’s treasure. If you took all the...
To End Extreme Poverty, Let's Try Ending Extreme Wealth
The world's wealthy gathered in the Alps again last week to discuss how to 'solve' the world's problems. The world's biggest problem, suggests one top global anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes. Apologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who...
"Shocking" Recess Appointment Decision By Republican Judges Will Be Appealed
A penal of three Republican judges today knocked down the President's three recess appointments last year to the National Labor Relations Board. The President appointed the three NLRB members following Republican filibusters of his nominees, intended to keep the...
Video: 'We Have To Continue The Filibuster Fight'
The fight for filibuster reform does not stop with what MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz on Thursday dubbed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "fail-ibuster." Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen told Schultz that "we have to continue that fight."...
Boehner's 10-Year Budget Plan: Take Unpopular Ryan Budget Cuts. Then Double Them.
To get House conservatives to capitulate on temporarily suspending the debt limit without securing any spending cuts, Boehner made a stunning pledge: the upcoming House budget would eliminate the deficit in 10 years. As a talking point, that sounds great. As a budget,...
