by Dave Johnson | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
At the AFL-CIO's national convention in Los Angeles Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a rousing and fully progressive speech Sunday. [fve]http://youtu.be/aJS6TV6F3As[/fve] I'm at the convention, and after the speech I heard several people comment that this...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
The Washington Post and federal investigators are hounding Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican governor of Virginia, for taking more than $150,000 in cash and gifts from the CEO of Star Scientific, Jonnie R. Williams Sr. Gov. McDonnell, a former businessman himself,...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
We’re in the midst of the worst employment crisis in modern memory. Lackluster jobs reports like last week’s should remind us that the crisis will last a long, long time unless we act. It would be tragic if superficial "improvements" created by discouraged workers...
by Bill Scher | Sep 9, 2013 | Blog
It is not hyperbole to note that the Syria vote in Congress will be one of the biggest congressional votes in history. Our elected representatives will determine if America should adopt a foreign policy principle in which military force is used to prevent genocide, or...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 8, 2013 | Blog
America's corporate chiefs deserve all their hefty rewards, we're told, because they take hefty risks. And what exactly are these richly rewarded corporate chiefs putting at risk? Our retirement security. How’s your 401(k) doing? Working Americans ask themselves this...
by Thom Hartmann | Sep 4, 2013 | Blog
My uncle, King Saunders Jr., was a newspaperman. He reported for several papers during his career, and from 1938 to the 1950s, he was the editor of the Motorwheel News, a weekly newspaper for one of the big auto plants in Lansing, Mich. Although the newspaper was paid...
