by Dave Johnson | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog
In Oakland peaceful #Occupy demonstrators were camping out in front of city hall. The city launched a police raid to clear out the camp, using tear gas, flash-bank grenades, rubber bullets and beating people with batons. An Iraq war vet was hit in the head by either a...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog
Here's the clip of a conversation we had yesterday on The Alonya Show about the new CBO report, which provides even more data on the explosion of wealth at the very top of the scale, the injustices driving Occupy Wall Street, and where we go from here. After Alonya...
by Sean McMartin | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy
For most people Social Security cuts are something to be feared in the future, but for one group of people cuts in Social Security are already a real and present danger: the employees of the Social Security Administration. And these Social Security cuts are having a...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog, Education
Now that the mandate to run our nation's schools according to No Child Left Behind has utterly collapsed, and many of the best minds are suggesting that we move on, there is still a prevailing contingency seeking to not just prop up but expand many of the tenants of...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 26, 2011 | Blog
Watch this interview on taxes. Watch how fast the argument against taxing the wealthy turns into an argument against democracy. Below is a Wednesday Newshour with Richard Epstein of the New York University School of Law. In the interview Epstein claims that the...
by Roger Hickey | Oct 26, 2011 | Blog
The members of Congress' deficit-reduction "supercommittee" should be on notice: When the time comes to pay to clean up the mess that Wall Street’s excesses caused in our economy, Americans will not accept having the bill sent to seniors, the vulnerable, the ill and...
