by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
Politicians in both political parties are leaning on the Bowles-Simpson deficit-reduction plan as a political crutch to make them appear "serious" to the inside-the-Beltway crowd. But if that crutch is merely enabling a nation to hobble over the edge of a cliff, then...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
There's a march and demonstration taking place tomorrow (Wednesday, June 20) to protest money's corrupting influence in our political process. We'll be marching on the headquarters of Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS organization in Washington DC to protest the corrupting,...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
At the Take Back the American Dream conference this morning, Paul Krugman reprised what he said on the Colbert Report recently, concerning Ireland's austerity agenda and it's frightening resemblance to Mitt Romney's economic agenda. If Mitt Romney is elected...
by Bill Scher | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
Conservatives have long sought to condemn the Recovery Act by claiming it failed to prevent unemployment from going higher than 8% as the White House projected. This is silly because the White House projection was made in January 2009, and unemployment lept to 8.3% in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
What is now more clear than ever is that building a progressive political force is a 24/7/365 effort. It's not just work to be done during election cycles, and not just done in presidential and congressional elections. Tuesday morning at the Take Back the American...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
It seems like just yesterday Mitt Romney released his 59-page "plan for jobs and economic growth." That's because it practically was just yesterday. Romney released "Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth," around the beginning of...
