by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERwr0MHYjQ[/fve] It’s heartbreaking to read of the suffering caused by environmental damage in West Virginia and North Carolina. We recently interviewed West Virginia filmmaker Mari-Lynn Evans on the “Zero Hour”...
by Derek Pugh | Feb 10, 2014 | Blog
Ahead of the Obama administration’s decision to whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, key environmental and labor organizations met in Washington, D.C. on Monday to offer an alternative: Repair America’s more than 2.5 million miles of existing deficient...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 9, 2014 | Blog
A crowd declared by organizers to exceed 80,000 showed up to march to protest Republican policies in Raleigh, N.C. Saturday. But you wouldn't know it if you live outside the area. Saturday's big march, organized by the North Carolina NAACP along with more than 160...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
You knew it was coming. The moment you saw Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial, you knew the reaction from the right was coming. The ad featured “America, The Beautiful,” sung in various languages, including English, while images of Americans of every race, creed,...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog
Today's jobs report has a bit of sort-of good news for manufacturing employment: 21,000 new jobs! At that rate President Obama ... won't ... make it to his goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. (Note: Passing Fast Track so the big corporations...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released trade deficit figures for December, which also means we can add up the totals for 2013. Our "oil boom" lowered the total, but goods and services got worse, with our China problem setting another record. The...
