by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
It's about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is asking people on Wednesday to call their members of Congress to support "transportation equity" in...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are...
by Bill Scher | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday I discussed Mitt Romney's outsourcing problem with David Pakman on the David Pakman show. The strangest aspect of the Romney campaign strategy is the disconnect between the claim that his business experience is what qualifies him to be president, and the...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
A recent court case proves what many of us have long suspected: Big banks have been ripping off this nation's towns and cities for years in an old-fashioned racketeering scam. We ran some numbers to see how much this criminality might have cost the American people.The...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
What a complex web we weave, when our lives are ruled by greed. Verizon is an example of what corporate greed (the 1%) is doing to our middle class and vulnerable (the 99%). It is a highly profitable company, just gave its CEO a huge raise, but dodges its taxes...
