by Richard Eskow | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog
What does it mean when Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama’s bro-ish and apparently self-satisfied former Secretary of the Treasury, becomes president of a company that hoodwinks the victims of the financial system he helped rescue? If you care about economic justice, or...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog
“RED ALERT,” read the New York Post’s headline after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory over high-ranking Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley. They competed in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th congressional district, which covers parts of Queens and The Bronx....
by Richard Eskow | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog
There’s no “civil” way to say it: The Trump administration is torturing immigrant children. A liberal television personality wept openly for these children a few days ago, and I’m glad she did. But it's important to remember that these terrible events reflect more...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog
Diehard science-fiction fans will remember the mystical mantra at the heart of the 21st-century “Battlestar Galactica” reboot: “All this has happened before and will happen again.” Democratic Party leaders and members of the mainstream media should keep that sentence...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog
Perhaps the most condescending and unintentionally revealing comments any banker made in the wake of the banker-created 2008 financial crisis came from Jamie Dimon, CEO of too-big-to-fail bank JP Morgan Chase. “Not to be funny about it,” Dimon told a congressional...
