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Controversial DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Face Progressive Tim Canova In An August Primary
Oh frabjous day! Tim Canova, who is challenging the rancid Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is a really good guy.
Read more...TTIP and Climate Change: Low Economic Benefits, Real Climate Risks
The TTIP could jeopardize the ability of the European Union and the United States to put in place the proper regulations to meet climate targets.
Read more...Why Lowering the Marginal Corporate Tax Rate Does Not Increase Growth
A new paper puts another nail in the coffin to the idea that lowering corporate tax rates will boost growth.
Read more...Michael Olenick: The Lesson of Newtown – Time to Charge for the True Cost of Gun Ownership
Yves here. The headline of an article at NBC says it all: Small-Bore? President Obama’s Actions on Guns Make Marginal Changes. Michael Olenick proposed a more effective approach…of a type that curiously has been absent from proposals on how to curb gun ownership. This post first ran on December 17, 2012 By Michael Olenick, a […]
Read more...Dollar Dominance: Deconstructing the Myths and Untangling the Web
It is not dollar hegemony that rules the world, but the global financial system which gives the dollar its place of privilege.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Greece as Rashomon
Like Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”, the story of Syriza is also one about a rape told from different, self-serving and contradictory perspectives.
Read more...The Obama Report Card: The Good, the Bad and the Incomplete
Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?
Read more...John Helmer: Putin’s Supper for the Oligarchs – Who’s in the Family, Who’s Out?
What Putin’s annual dinner says about his “almost family”.
Read more...5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015
It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...Clinton, Sanders, and the “Progressive Give-Up” Formula (with Clinton’s Warning of a “Grand Bargain” to Come)
Clinton, Sanders, and days of Mondale past.
Read more...What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement—An Insider’s View
Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left in Occupy.
Read more...Bill Moyers: The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!
How citizens must fight plutocrats if they are to have any hope of preserving rule by the people.
Read more...What Influence Does Wall Street Have Over Candidates Clinton and Sanders?
Clinton plays with figures to understate her degree of Wall Street campaign support, and that ignores past support to the Clinton Foundation.
Read more...CalPERS: Stockholm Syndrome and Cowardice on Private Equity Fee Disclosure
I have wanted to leave CalPERS alone. Really. Truly. But they keep asking for attention in the worst possible way.
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