by Leo Gerard | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
It’s lights out in Lorain on March 31. The town’s steel mill, site of a new electric arc furnace and $120 million investment, had given 1,200 Ohioans good middle-class jobs this time last year. But by April, a relentless avalanche of underpriced Chinese steel will...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, Trade
A new study confirms what many activists have suspected for a long time: The private courts set up by international "trade" deals heavily favor billionaires and giant corporations, and they do so at the expense of governments and people. Smaller companies and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy
A Supreme Court justice has died. Normally (and according to the Constitution) the process is that the president nominates a successor, the Senate holds hearings, and there is a vote on whether to confirm that nominee. According to the Constitution, that's their job,...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
"Watch what we do, not what we say." - Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell, explaining that the Nixon administration will be pursuing a hidden agenda, no matter what they are telling the public. Forget everything the Obama administration is telling the public about...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog, Current Issues, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump can’t disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for the same reason the Republican party can’t disavow his candidacy — and it could splinter the GOP vote in 2016. A new Democracy Corp likely voter survey of Republican base voters...
by Bill Scher | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
A bombshell New York Times report, about how the Republican Establishment has been unable to stop Donald Trump, reveals that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to disown Trump if he becomes the nominee: ...Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the...
