Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, was on Democracy Now! yesterday to discuss the economic plans of Democratic front-runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and the economic plans of top GOP candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, as well as his new book, “Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.” The book examines why […]
The White House fired back at the Koch brothers yesterday after Charles Koch told Politico he was “flabbergasted” by a recent attack on him and his brother by President Obama during a clean energy speech in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this week. White House hits back at Charles Koch http://t.co/LuZ04C2inv | Getty pic.twitter.com/obadhgMJ2D — POLITICO (@politico) August […]
The more than 100,000 people who have jammed into arenas in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Madison and other cities should be a wake up call for anyone still on the sidelines in the critical 2016 election campaign. National Nurses United, I’m proud to say, has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for many […]
The long-awaited final Clean Power Plan rule was released yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “Suddenly I had this weird feeling, like I couldn’t breathe” —@POTUS on running in L.A. in 1979 #CleanPowerPlan http://t.co/0mjv24on1Z — The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 3, 2015 The summary of the final rule, states that the EPA is establishing: carbon dioxide […]
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines an “oligarchy” as: “A government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.” Former President Jimmy Carter had some choice words for our form of government, post-Citizen’s United, on my radio program last week. When I asked him his thoughts on the state of American politics […]
Hillary Clinton has been heavily criticized by voters and her opponent Bernie Sanders for continually dodging questions about hot button environmental issues such as the Keystone XL pipeline, fracking and Arctic drilling. Clinton, however, did declare in her first major campaign speech that climate change “is one of the defining threats of our time” and released a climate and […]
John Oliver, comedic anchorman of HBO show Last Week Tonight, made feathers fly when he took on the poultry industry in a May 2015 episode. Last week, it became clear that his gripe with Big Chicken had echoed all the way to the Capitol. Oliver used his HBO show to attack the giant poultry processors—Tyson Foods, […]
House Judiciary Committee members who voted for a bill that could delay or deny fair compensation to asbestos victims received almost $3.3 million in campaign contributions over the last five years from companies that would benefit from the legislation, according to an investigation of federal records by Environmental Working Group (EWG) Action Fund. The so-called […]
There’s been buzz for a couple of years around the potential presidential campaign of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Today he made it official: he’s running and is now the 15th candidate to enter the GOP presidential race. Walker has been widely touted as a frontrunner and someone who actually could snag the nomination, unlike some of the candidates in […]
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