by Dave Johnson | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog
One side says, "Never mind the deal we just agreed to, cut this or we'll shut down the government" and the other side says, "This isn't fair, and it hurts people. We can't keep agreeing to pay these ransoms, this has to stop!" Is this "both sides squabbling?" Is this...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Leo Gerard will be addressing the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference about the "Contract for the American Dream" and how we can "Stop Outsourcing the American Dream." Click here to register. America is being played. The U.S. allowed China to join the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog, Economy
I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of "security" hidden the demonstrators so effectively that they couldn't be found, even if you went there...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog
Progressive activists are accustomed to raising the bull-droppings deflection shield whenever a conservative utters a sentence containing the words "job creators." We know what's coming—and there's a lot of it. Just in the 24-hour period between Thursday afternoon and...
