by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership's "Democracy Hijacking" with Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, this past weekend on his radio show "The Zero Hour with Richard Eskow." The "hijacking" refers to a...
by Leo Gerard | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump scorns traditional presidential candidate standards. The Donald doesn’t do what’s expected. And he certainly doesn’t do what he tells other candidates they must do. If Donald doesn’t feel like debating, he stiffs his opponents and grabs attention doing...
by Robert Borosage | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The media has declared the Democratic presidential race over, even though no candidate has won a majority of the delegates. The Democratic establishment is in a tizzy about polls showing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump running even with Democratic...
by Terrance Heath | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Proving once and for all that he truly has not one shred of decency in him, Donald Trump has traded in his red trucker hat for a tinfoil hat. The sad and frightening part is that he’ll probably get away with it. Claiming that he was “just asking the question,” Trump...
by Dave Johnson | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Members of Congress are weighing in against the U.S. government's use of "gunboat diplomacy"-style intimidation of Colombia against that country allowing a generic version of an ultraexpensive cancer drug named Gleevec in order to protect the public's health....
by Dave Johnson | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/q6qvdDacozM[/fve] NOTE: Shortly after this article was posted, news broke of a settlement in the strike between Verizon and workers represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers....
