by Leo Gerard | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog
On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century Aluminum smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va. In tents and under tarps, a small group stays overnight, despite hypertension,...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog
China cheats – it openly flouts trade laws – and routinely denies it. It restricts access to its markets, forces companies that want to sell in China to transfer technology and manufacture there, and then often steals the technology. It purposefully underprices its...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Economy
This is the audio clip of an interview I did for The Breakdown this weekend with journalist and author Michael Hudson, who did a terrific piece on GE Capital's mortgage crisis called Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle: Hudson's a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2012 | Blog
The statue of Civil War General James B. McPherson, which sits in the center of the square in downtown D.C. that bears his name, was used by Occupy D.C. protesters today as the center pole for a "tent of dreams," in rebellion against a National Park Service bar...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 30, 2012 | Blog
At the risk of repeating myself, my response to the Romney campaign staffer who summed up the Florida primary by saying "It's about destroying Gingrich," is the same as my response to Sarah Palin's claim that the "liberal media" and "the establishment" were out to...
