by Richard Eskow | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Sometimes it's worth looking at current events through the eyes of a historian chronicling the end of an age, or those of a district attorney in a time of corruption. Come to think of it, the two perspectives aren't all that different. However you look at it, calling...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
What is the real agenda of the budget-cutters? Are they really trying to bring the country back from the edge of financial ruin? Or did they bring about the appearance of a borrowing crisis to create a public panic that enables them to impose "solutions" that change...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 23, 2011 | Blog
VIDEO: Why Others Should Join The Wisconsin Protests Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage joins FireDogLake editor Jane Hamsher and Wisconsin AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Stephanie Bloomingdale on Cenk Uygur's show on MSNBC February 22. "It's now...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Dig into the numbers of the latest Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll on the recession and race and it's easy to see how the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have blown it on winning the allegiance of the white working...
by Bill Scher | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Thousands are rallying in Wisconsin and across the nation to oppose conservative governors who are attacking the collective bargaining rights of...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Big things are happening in Wisconsin in response to Governor Walker's assault on the rights of working people. The Governor is trying to end 50 years of collective bargaining for Wisconsin workers, and has threatened to call out the National Guard to enforce it. The...