by Leo Gerard | Jul 3, 2012 | Blog
America commemorates its Independence Day this week with food, festivity and fireworks. To supply these events, Mitt Romney recommends: Buy foreign. Americans naturally think the patriotic choice would be to buy American. But for Romney, capitalism trumps patriotism....
by Bill Scher | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
President Obama has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives. His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. Johnson’s relentless arm-twisting. His willingness...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
Millions of people have read the Hunger Games stories, about a depraved future society where young people are forcing to fight each other for scarce resources while elites in the Capital plunder the nation's wealth. Now take a look at our world, where Washington's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 1, 2012 | Blog
America's revolutionary generation, new research documents, lived in a society much more equal than our own. And early Americans prized that equality, an inconvenient reality for conservatives today. Not too long ago, Americans only dressed up in George Washington...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 1, 2012 | Blog
President Obama promised that if you have health insurance now, it won't change. Here are 7 ways he lied: 1) Under the new law your insurer can't drop your coverage after you get sick. This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied. 2) Your children can...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog
Was today's ruling a victory for justice over corporate power? Did Chief Justice John Roberts rise above partisan differences because that's where an honest reading of the law took him? Nah. The majority on this Supreme Court is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate...
