by Robert Borosage | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist insurgent, won Indiana convincingly Tuesday night – 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent – over Hillary Clinton, the establishment moderate. This is a remarkable victory, a statement of the extent and scope of the Sanders surge....
by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Trade
""There are no red lines which would clearly protect environment and health." - Jorgo Riss, director of Greenpeace EU There has been a major leak concerning another "trade" agreement that is currently being negotiated in secret. This time it is the TTIP and it was...
by Leo Gerard | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Trade
Forged with the despicable dividend of stolen trade secrets, priced with monopoly collusion, then traded with fraudulent labeling to dodge U.S. duties, steel from China violates every principle of capitalism. That’s in addition to defying both U.S. and international...
by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade
[fve]https://youtu.be/Y3ttxGMQOrY[/fve] Sometimes an event comes along that crystallizes people's awareness of an issue. It is just the right things at the right time. The layoffs at the Indianapolis Carrier air conditioner factory are an example of this kind of...
by Robert Reich | May 2, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the biggest single force in American politics today. Mayer is CEO of Yahoo. Yahoo’s stock lost about a third of its value last year, as the company went from...
by Bill Scher | May 2, 2016 | Blog
In The New Republic today I explore how Hillary Clinton could campaign when there are two disparate camps of voters she will be compelled to pursue: Bernie Sanders voters on her left, and anti-Donald Trump Republicans on her right. Sanders voters are...
