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...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 23, 2011 | Blog
Republicans are threatening a scheme to block yet another part of the government - the NLRB, this time - from functioning, for the purpose of enriching the 1% while driving even more of us out of the middle class. Senate Republicans are participating in this scheme by...
by Bill Scher | Nov 23, 2011 | Blog
What am I thankful for this year? I am thankful the conservative movement has stopped trying to pretend to be something that they are not. Instead of masquerading as "compassionate conservatives" who want "clear skies," "personal retirement accounts," protect...
