by Dave Johnson | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama gives his last State of the Union speech tonight. Will he provide a positive, progressive message for the future, or will he continue to push the wildly unpopular, corporate/Wall Street-written Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? TPP Unpopular Last week...
by Robert Reich | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
If you haven’t yet seen “The Big Short” – directed and co-written by Adam McKay, based on the non-fiction prize-winning book by Michael Lewis about the housing and credit bubble that triggered the Great Recession — I recommend you do so. Not only is the movie an...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
The grandest and most majestic first act of 2016 by the Republican majority in Congress was to take a meat clever and sever 17 million Americans from their Affordable Care Act health insurance. No chemo for you, cancer patients, the GOP declared. No plaster or slings...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
After a decades-long effort to place ideologically committed "movement" members in the judicial branch of government, funded by extremely wealthy individuals and their corporations, it looks like the resulting corporate/conservative wing of the Supreme Court is ready...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
Back in America’s original Gilded Age, in the decades right after the Civil War, no American spoke and wrote more compellingly against the nation’s growing inequality than Henry George, a Philadelphia-born journalist whose writing career initially took off in San...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has provisions that allow corporations to sue governments for laws and regulations that limit profits. The cases bypass national court systems and are heard by "corporate courts" with the governments allowed no appeal. These...
