by Richard Eskow | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016
Hillary Clinton gave a speech on the economy in Toledo, Ohio on Monday. Her primary topics, corporate predation and a broken economy, leaned left. Some of the speech's most important ideas were hidden in plain sight but could have long-lasting significance. The speech...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The notorious Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) corporate-rights agreement is opposed by the Democratic candidate for President, the Republican candidate for President, the Democratic Party platform, all labor unions, thousands of citizen groups like faith, human...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08OxXF_mbqg#t=80s] William K. Black Jr. speaks with Richard Eskow on "The Zero Hour." Big-bank CEOs have presided over a cornucopia of criminality in recent years. Their misdeeds are so varied and numerous that Wall Street...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
It’s 3:00am. Do you know what your presidential candidate is doing? Apparently, Donald Trump was up at 3:00am on Twitter, directing his supporters to check out an alleged sex tape. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Donald Trump, candidate for slut shame and smut peddler in...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog
"Gig economy" corporations depend on a low-wage economy in which lots of people are looking for ways to get by. Their business model requires disposable people willing to take low-wage jobs with long hours and no benefits so they can pay the rent, doing things for...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog, Education
Are charter schools a "progressive" idea for education? Some progressive sources would have you think so, but other progressives have challenged that framing. This week, Massachusetts news outlets reported that the state's most prominent politician and one of the...
