by Leo Gerard | Jul 31, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
It’s a damning report because it says America has endangered itself by allowing both its manufacturing sector and its infrastructure – like dams, roads and bridges -- to deteriorate. The report, Preparing for 21st Century Risks, issued by the Alliance for American...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 31, 2012 | Blog, Education
If you've noticed lately the tendency in car commercials to show the vehicle against a background of an empty city street, you can assume it's likely due to the abundance of empty city streets available in the place famous for being home to the major automotive...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 31, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
The defense industry and its Republican allies in Congress are up in arms - metaphorically speaking,of course - over the possibility that an agreement which the GOP signed might actually take effect as agreed. They hate when then happens. So they're cooking something...
by Bill Scher | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
At yesterday's Jerusalem fundraiser, Mitt Romney praised Israel's single-payer, government-run health care system as better than America's. The NY Times quoted Romney as saying: You spend eight percent of G.D.P. on health care. You’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend...
