by Richard Eskow | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
What a week. Call it the Shock Doctrine in reverse: The Massachusetts election and yesterday's Supreme Court ruling may force the Democrats to move to the left to ensure their political survival. They're now faced with a choice they clearly didn't want: forcefully...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on PBS late Thursday said that President Obama doesn't really want to break up the banks. But one of the authors of a report that looks at the impact of increased consolidation in the banking sector says that Geithner's resistance...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2010 | Blog
The Supreme Court yesterday allowed corporate executives to tap into their company's resources and use that money to directly influence elections instead of for the profitable operation of the company. This use of company funds isn't considered bribery because the...
by Tula Connell | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
Massachusetts voters sent a strong signal to Washington lawmakers Tuesday that they want results—and aren't seeing any. Not on health care reform, not on job creation and not on fixing the nation's economy. Voters also sent another powerful message for Democrats:...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
It does not matter whether today's pronouncement on financial reform by President Obama was prompted by Tuesday's election disaster in Massachusetts or was a long-building unleashing of his inner populist. What matters is the potential for real White House leadership...
