by Terrance Heath | Sep 30, 2012 | Blog
Americans now stand a greater chance of dying from the effects of austerity than being killed in a car crash. At least that's what a new report suggests, if you read between the lines. The study, authored by a West Virginia University professor and published in the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 30, 2012 | Blog
America's billionaires have realized they really don't have to bother convincing a majority of people to vote their way. They can put their cash instead into campaigns to keep the hard-to-convince from voting. Our two major presidential candidates descended on Ohio...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
David Corn at Mother Jones has released another Romney video. This one's from a Bain Capital meeting in 1985 in which Romney says Bain's business model is to acquire companies and then "harvest them at a significant profit" in five to eight years. The word "harvest"...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
Get the word out. The movie Won't Back Down is another propaganda product of the corporate/conservative machine, put in theaters to get you to support union busting and school privatization. Over at the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, Mary Bottari writes in...
by Bill Scher | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
Earlier this week, The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote a piece that began with what was intended as a rhetorical question: "Quick, name President Obama’s best moment in the 2012 campaign so far? What about Mitt Romney’s high point?" Cillizza was trying to...
