by Dave Johnson | Aug 11, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Washington is in a Fox News tizzy about budget deficits. But even though the budget deficits were clearly caused by tax cuts for the rich, huge military spending increases and the effects of the lack of jobs, ideas for fixing those are the very things that are "off...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 11, 2011 | Blog
Hopefully the worst of the violence is over in Great Britain. London's fires are cooling into ashes, and with any luck they won't be rekindled. But even though the British economy is still a tinderbox, nothing that's happened has dampened some people's enthusiasm for...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 10, 2011 | Blog
The establishment campaign to use the economic crisis to cut Social Security and Medicare continues to escalate. Helene Cooper in New York Times offers up a new theme: If the president is courageous and puts country before campaign, he'll "administer the disagreeable...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 10, 2011 | Blog
Ignore the chest-thumping from the right following the Wisconsin recall elections Tuesday night. The fact that Democratic challengers prevailed in two of the six races, and came within less than 1,100 votes of unseating a third in a race where almost 51,000 votes were...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
Aspiring journalists are often advised to become multilingual so they can cover more stories. That's why I'm prepared to offer the first summer program in Federal Reserve as a Second Language ... once anybody turns up who can really understand it. Any attempt to...
