by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
This holiday season, let's spare a kind thought for the decent people who toil inside Washington's legislative machinery. These good folk must live and work inside the dreamlike bubble that is today's policy and media world. Each day they strain to see reality through...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
When Egyptians stood up to Mubarak they were met with tear gas and clubs. Once upon a time America had freedom of assembly, speech and protest. Even now, as long as protests don't take on the 1%, they are OK. But in today's America-for-the-1% protests, assemblies and...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
Some Democrats have come under a lot of criticism lately, much of it deserved, for abandoning popular and important programs that were historically associated with their party. But some of the other Democrats -- the ones who are trying to act in the country's best...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
Two new reports suggest that the President and Congressional Democrats are about to betray everything Democrats once stood for. Under pressure from Barack Obama, Democrats on the "Super Committee" have sketched out an appalling "compromise" proposal that would almost...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
Ten years ago we were on a path to paying off the country's debt. In fact, if we had stayed on the same trajectory the debt might be paid off already. But then we cut taxes even more, and raised the military budget even more, and the deficits and resulting debt...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
If you paint black roofs white you save a lot on energy use, and you create some jobs. So how come something as simple as this is so hard to get going? I'm at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - America. CGI is about a "process" of bringing attendees together to get...
