by Dave Johnson | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) say they have reached a deal. So here it comes. Monday morning it was announced that a "Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached," presented as much as a foreign policy success as a "trade" deal. "The...
by Bernie Horn | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority
In response to the massacre at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, President Obama said: This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
With corporate-conservative calls for full or partial privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS) escalating, groups are sounding the alarm about new nominees to the USPS Board of Governors. The Senate is scheduled soon to consider the nominations of...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, a bunch of Republican Congressmen made fools of themselves during their own hearing to bring down Planned Parenthood. The GOP war on Planned Parenthood continued to follow the pattern of its anti-ACORN campaign this week, as what began with deceptively...
by Robert Reich | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Washington Post just ran an attack on Bernie Sanders that distorts not only what he’s saying and seeking but also the basic choices that lie before the nation. Sanders, writes the Post’s David Fahrenthold, “is not just a big-spending liberal. And his agenda is...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
In democracies government is supposed to protect regular people from being taken advantage of or harmed by large, powerful interests. Democracies are like a big, national union – the people band together so that the power of numbers protects them and helps them do...
