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...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 25, 2011 | Blog
Fahrenheit 451: The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. They're back. But then, they've never gone away. The Book Killers have always been with us. Before recorded history they were with us, murdering the scholars and storytellers and mystics of...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 24, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives say they want to "bring back" the old USA, the one that existed during those decades of the twentieth century they only seem to see through a gauzy golden haze. Whatever its problems, that country was a place where Republicans and Democrats agreed on two...
