by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog
The pro-corporate, anti-majority political class is sustaining itself with a lot of self-serving myths these days. Guess you need to do that when you're dismantling the social contract. In the closed society that is Insider Washington, rites and mythologies are used...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE: Washington’s Stupid, Destructive Game OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...as this stupid game goes on – how much do we cut, and where? – Washington’s past flings with austerity madness are already carving chunks out of our economy. The GDP, which grew...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog
What more vivid symbol of the indignity our corporate-driven inequality imposes than the Carnival Triumph cruise ship. Thousands of people adrift, going nowhere in a nightmare of sewage and stench, while a billionaire chief exec sits far away in a courtside seat and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
I noticed something interesting in this USA Today report, Moody's cuts U.K.'s AAA credit rating, Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Britain's government bond rating one notch from the top AAA to AA1, citing weaknesses in the economy's...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
If you listen to any one audio segment talking about what is going on with the Postal Service this week I recommend this interview I did with The Matthew Filipowicz Show, (which you can also hear on We Act Radio in the DC area.) Click here to listen to the interview....
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
I was on Huffington Post Live today, talking about the story behind the recent news that the Postal Service is going to end Saturday deliver in August. I wrote about this recently in my post, The Postal Service Outrage.* This post outlines what is really going on with...
