by Leo Gerard | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
I want to thank you, thank you Thank you, thank you, Thank you, thank you, Thank you, thank you. ~ Natalie Merchant, “Kind and Generous” This week’s holiday mandates giving thanks. For many Americans, that is complicated by the harsh years since 2008. There’s the...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
It's like the old-timers always said: Don't quit before the miracle happens. While the Arab Spring showed that people can still accomplish the impossible, Our political debate was frozen in corporate cynicism. Now everything has changed. For the United States, spring...
by Roger Hickey | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The reason members of the Super Committee didn’t reach an agreement is that Republican members insisted on damaging cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicare – AND they wouldn’t budge from their refusal to roll back tax cuts for the richest 1% of Americans. If...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
The story just won't die. People keep commenting on the near-Stalinist level of ideological purity displayed by CNN"s selection of "expert" questioners for last week's Republican national security debate. As soon as it was duly convened, the network's Neocon Politburo...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 27, 2011 | Blog
Today's super rich can't turn tin into gold. But they can get Uncle Sam to loan them free money. At the expense, of course, of America's bottom 99 percent. How much money is pouring into the pockets of America's richest 1 percent? How much of this income are America's...
