by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2011 | Blog
Assuming the "Super Committee" fails to forge a deficit reduction compromise, those who proclaim to be "deficit hawks" will respond will sadness and anger. They will decry the inability of Congress to function. They will alarm us that we are on a fiscal path to...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
As Mayor Bloomberg's forces swooped down on Occupy Wall Street, news reports described the "hundreds of police and private security guards" who had re-taken Zuccotti Park. Those private guards were used against public citizens who had been exercising their civil...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
A government that says corporate money is “speech” dispatches lines of police to stop actual human-being citizens from actually speaking out. It's all right there in front of us: Wall Street got bailouts, the rich got tax cuts, corporations got to buy elections,...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
Bear with me here, this gets interesting ... and a bit scary. The 2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION has been released. From the press release: The report covers the U.S.-China economic relationship, including the impact...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 16, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The following is prepared testimony from Robert Borosage delivered today to the Congressional Progressive Caucus's Hearing on Jobs I thank the Congressional Progressive Caucus for holding this hearing. I am honored by the invitation to participate. I want to the...
