by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
More and more the word is getting out that President Obama, along with the giant multinational corporations and Wall Street, will launch a push in Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the "lame duck" legislative session following the election....
by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership's "Democracy Hijacking" with Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, this past weekend on his radio show "The Zero Hour with Richard Eskow." The "hijacking" refers to a...
by Leo Gerard | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump scorns traditional presidential candidate standards. The Donald doesn’t do what’s expected. And he certainly doesn’t do what he tells other candidates they must do. If Donald doesn’t feel like debating, he stiffs his opponents and grabs attention doing...
by Robert Borosage | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The media has declared the Democratic presidential race over, even though no candidate has won a majority of the delegates. The Democratic establishment is in a tizzy about polls showing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump running even with Democratic...
by Burning Issues Video | May 31, 2016 | Burning Issues, Climate, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/u2alBcISoeU[/fve] The United States has been promoting hydraulic fracturing – fracking – in dozens of countries around the world despite the direct environmental risks and its contribution to global warming, says Charlie Cray, a researcher at...
by Terrance Heath | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Proving once and for all that he truly has not one shred of decency in him, Donald Trump has traded in his red trucker hat for a tinfoil hat. The sad and frightening part is that he’ll probably get away with it. Claiming that he was “just asking the question,” Trump...
