by Richard Eskow | Oct 3, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In the summer of 2013 Bill de Blasio was a long-shot contender in the New York mayor’s race. Less than two months before the crucial Democratic primary, de Blasio was in fourth place. To make the odds even worse, the city’s power brokers were lined up behind another...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 2, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
The secret Goldman Sachs tapes released this week by ProPublica and This American Life are attracting a lot of attention, and rightly so. They were clandestinely recorded by Carmen Segarra, an investigator for the New York Federal Reserve Bank who was eventually fired...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Winning Issues for 2014
[fve]http://youtu.be/QxLnH6jp7eE?list=UUcnNWp-tx3-FaCWV4pMFTAg[/fve] Last week on The Zero Hour we talked about the upcoming election with Celinda Lake, a leading strategist for progressive organizations and liberal Democratic candidates. The conversation was...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 25, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Sexism. A culture of violence. Untrustworthy leadership. Runaway wealth inequality. An indifference to workers' health. Employees who are above the law. Hush-hush financing. Multimillion-dollar tax breaks. We're not talking about America's top corporations. We're not...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
The theme of Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged," according to Ms. Rand herself, “what happens to the world when the Prime Movers go on strike.” Those prime movers are corporate executives – “the motor of the world” – and Rand imagines what would happen if they all just went...
