by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
How's this for a radical, anti-American statement? The Republican Party's draft platform mocks American workers' pensions as useless artifacts which were "born in an old industrial era beyond the memory of most Americans." Republicans talk about restoring American...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog
The presence of scandal-ridden accounting firms on Mitt Romney's fundraising list got me to thinking: What do they expect to get for their money? And why does the accounting profession seem to be so riddled with corruption? And it reminded me of something that...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Come the revolution, rich, white, male conservatives will be the only people left who can "play the race card" and get away with it. Actually, that revolution is already here. And, with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron, it is being televised — in the form of Mitt Romney's...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog
China's official media expressed concerns this week that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is using incendiary, militaristic, "Cold War" language that could serious harm relations between China and the United States. Foreign Policy Magazine writes in,...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog
What defines Mitt Romney's Republican Party? In his keynote address to the Republican convention, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie argued that this is the party of "hard truths," ready to tackle our debt and deficits. Washington lobbyist and former Pennsylvania...
