Our inboxes runneth over with congratulations from American friends. “Pleasure to be able to look north without wincing,” “we’re all thrilled to have regained our sensible neighbors to the north,” “Goodbye Stephen ‘Keystone XL’ Harper.” And then there was this from England: “you now officially have the hottest Prime Minister EVER!” Canada’s newly-elected Prime Minister […]
The House Freedom Caucus is correct in lamenting that the media have trivialized their true goals by focusing on the personality of the next Speaker of the House. They are wrong to believe that a focus on their deep agenda would help their cause—for that agenda is to restore minority, not democratic, control of the […]
Charles Koch misled CBS when he suggested that the Kochs’ political spending is publicly disclosed. On Oct. 11, the elder Koch brother gave a rare interview to CBS Sunday Morning. Reporter Anthony Mason asked, “Do you think it’s good for the political system that so much what’s called ‘dark money’ is flowing into the process […]
Mark Ruffalo spoke yesterday at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as part of a campus residency. He was awarded the 2015 Rose-Walters Prize for Environmental Activism by the college in May. He was on campus yesterday to “educate students on activism and the importance of water quality awareness,” according to PennLive. Ruffalo, who describes himself as “an actor and […]
Amid a last minute scramble, leaders from the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries announced Monday that they had reached agreement on a sweeping trade deal, one that critics, including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, say will slash standards and protections for both consumers and workers—with impacts to be felt across the globe. The agreement, […]
As the first Democrat presidential debate finally approaches (on Oct. 13), America’s nuke power industry is in accelerated collapse. The few remaining construction projects in the U.S. and Europe are engineering and economic disasters. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders may address this in broad terms. But as a nation we must now focus on the 99 dying U.S. reactors that threaten […]
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 […]
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and “a coalition of deep-pocketed liberal groups, including a pair of super PACs backing Hillary Clinton” have been holding strategic meetings for months “examining the 2016 map and plotting attacks against the powerful Koch brothers‘ network,” according to Politico. https://twitter.com/politico/status/649178139483049985 front and center, you are losing sight of what you absolutely need to […]
Can American capitalism be saved from its most predatory, selfish instincts? Could the U.S. economy spread its wealth—if the public and political class understood how today’s unprecedented domination by monopolistic corporations have undermined opportunity, wages and income and public confidence in the future? Exclusive excerpt from @RBReich's new book, SAVING CAPITALISM, out 9/29. #ForTheMany http://t.co/RHsKXp18xt […]
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