by Leo Gerard | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
In West Virginia after a cavalier chemical company poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 people, the corporate-hugging, right-wing extremist group Americans for the Prosperous congratulated itself for doling out bottled water one day. “What better way to help people...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog
Today's ridiculous attack on teacher unions is one that accuses them of supporting sexual predators in schools. Let's see if we can figure out what's behind it. In a Wall Street Journal hit-piece, Campbell Brown – you may remember her as a former television news...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog
Guess who is one of the biggest employers of minimum-wage employees? Your own federal government. After years of "privatization" and outsourcing, the government now contracts out a lot of work to companies that pay really, really low wages for jobs that when they were...
by Bill Scher | Jan 16, 2014 | Blog
While President Obama's EPA is planning new regulations to cap carbon emissions from power plants, a sprawling grassroots "divestment" movement is pressuring fossil fuel companies from the bottom-up -- calling on individuals and institutions to dump their stocks in...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 16, 2014 | Blog
We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog
I was on "The Nicole Sandler Show" recently talking about the one-sided trade agreements we've been tricked into and the damage they do to the economy. It's also quite entertaining. Seriously, it is. Bad puns, jokes and, of course, Nicole!!...
