by Richard Eskow | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
The President has adopted the language of the 99%, and it's paying off for him. He's surged from a position slightly behind Mitt Romney in last month'sCNN polling to a 52%-45% lead against the Republican this week. While other factors were involved, his new rhetoric...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog
"If I had a world of my own," said Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't." I can't take it anymore. I just can't. In fact I'm falling down the rabbit hole even as we speak. 'PolitiFact,' a project...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog
This last week we've seen how Washington's elites are able to suppress popular opinion, work against the public interest, and wrap it all up with a bow so that it looks like 'democracy in action.' It's not. What we're seeing isn't democracy, and it isn't a free press...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 19, 2011 | Blog
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place was almost empty. Just a sleepy...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
Mitt Romney has very serious ideas for fixing the economy. How do we know? By the typeface. Romney's released a 59-page plan in one of those very, very serious typefaces - Garamond, or Cambria, or Times New Roman - Well, to be honest, I'm not sure which. But trust me....
