Is The Sanders Campaign "Going Negative?
The Clinton campaign is accusing the Sanders campaign of "going negative." It's all over the news. Did Sanders really "go negative"? Or is this Clinton accusation just an attempt to "muddy the waters"...
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What Do You Mean ‘Bernie Sanders Might Be Another George McGovern’?
George McGovern was the Democratic nominee against incumbent Richard Nixon in the 1972 election. He lost in a landslide. Just as the events of the 1980s shaped the current economic environment, the...
View ArticleSanders Vows To Kill TPP If Elected. Will Clinton?
xYouTube VideoAs the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "free-trade" agreement was signed in New Zealand by representatives of the 12 participating countries, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie...
View ArticleIs Clinton Bought By Wall Street? There Is A Test For That
Secretary Hillary Clinton has accepted millions in "speaking fees" and campaign contributions from interest groups - most notably Wall Street firms - that she will be in a position to help or hurt as...
View ArticleAnti-Clinton Diaries Using Right-Wing Sources. Don't Do It!
I was reading a diary today, checked the links to sources of the info, it was Daily Caller and Mediaite. I’ve been seeing this more and more as the Clinton/Sanders fight heats up. These are right-wing...
View ArticleWhen Government 'Saves Money' And Gets 'Smaller' We All Lose
Many say we should "run government like a business" and "save money" by "cutting spending" and "making government smaller." Does this work? Do We the People really save money by doing these...
View ArticleIs Bernie Sanders Promising 'Free Stuff' To Buy Votes?
Corporate conservatives have taken notice of the Bernie Sanders campaign, and has started accusing him of "buying votes" by "promising""free stuff." Is it true?Here are some examples of what the...
View ArticleThe Sanders "Economic Plan" Controversy
"When you dare to do big things, big results should be expected. The Sanders program is big, and when you run it through a standard model, you get a big result." - James K. GalbraithDemocratic...
View ArticleSupreme Obstruction
A Supreme Court justice has died. Normally (and according to the Constitution) the process is that the president nominates a successor, the Senate holds hearings, and there is a vote on whether to...
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Trump Taps Into Economic Anxiety Resulting From ‘Free Trade’
Many people don't "get" Donald Trump's appeal, ascribing it to his racist, xenophobic talk. But there is another factor, a very strong one, and we had best pay attention. Trump is tapping into an...
View ArticleAuto Bailout Controversy: 'Gotcha' Politics vs Building Trust
In Sunday's Democratic presidential debate, just two days before Michigan's primary takes place, Hillary Clinton dropped a 'gotcha' bomb on Bernie Sanders, saying Sanders "was against the auto...
View ArticleAuto-Bailout Backfire: Does Sanders Have Antidote To Negative Politics?
Politicians and campaign consultants, listen up. There is a lesson to learn from Michigan's Democratic primary upset: Voters are tired of having their intelligence insulted by cynical politicians using...
View ArticleBernie And "Free Trade": The Elites Are Selling It But The Public Is Longer...
"Free trade": The elites are selling it but the public is longer buying it. Look at the support for Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, especially in light of Sanders' surprise...
View ArticleWhat's The Problem With "Free Trade"?
Our country's "free trade" agreements have followed a framework of trading away our democracy and middle-class prosperity in exchange for letting the biggest corporations dominate.There are those who...
View ArticleFact-Check This: Arrogance Of Elites Helps Drive The Trump Phenomenon
For some time now most of the people in this country have been under economic pressure. Pay is not going up very much or at all, while living costs keep rising. One recent statistic stands out – 63...
View ArticleChamber of Commerce Works To Defeat, Not Implement Its Own Members Preferences
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims to be "a business federation representing companies, business associations, state and local chambers in the U.S., and American Chambers of Commerce abroad." They...
View ArticleClinton Should Ask Obama To Withdraw The TPP
Hillary Clinton has a credibility problem when it comes to our country's trade policies and the resulting enormous, humongous trade deficits that measure job loss - especially with regard to the...
View ArticleHillary Must Toughen Up On Trade In Case She Is Nominee Against Trump
Yes, much of Donald Trump's message has a white nationalist and anti-woman character to it. But here is a warning: If Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee she had better get tough on...
View ArticleThursday Day Of Action To Support Verizon Workers -- And Each Other
Thursday has been declared a Verizon Strike National Day of Action.There are 39,000 Verizon workers on strike right now. They are not just striking for better pay and conditions from Verizon; this is...
View ArticleMust-watch short video about TPP
Please take a look at this short video explaining TPP: Burning Issues: Explaining The ‘Revolt’ Against the TPPxYouTube VideoThe 2016 political races are being buffeted by “a transpartisan, nationwide...
View ArticleExposing Trump's Trade Appeal To Working-Class Voters For What It Is
Donald Trump is selling himself as the champion of working-class voters. He says Democrats and their presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, are selling them out with trade deals. But Trump...
View ArticleTPP In Democratic Party Platform Is A 'Whose Side Are You On?' Moment
xYouTube VideoVideo: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on why we need to stop the TPP.The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is likely to come up for a vote in the "lame-duck" session of Congress that follows the...
View ArticleEnforce The Democratic Platform, and Good Things Will Happen
Some people say that the Democratic Party doesn't really stand for anything. Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed and pushed as a Democratic presidential candidate, and has achieved results that could change...
View ArticleDid You Know That AARP Is A Paying Member Of ALEC?
Here is a real shocker. AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) has been a paying member of the notorious right-wing, Koch-tied lobbying organization American Legislative Exchange...
View ArticleThe Latest Lie: "We Are Going To Raise Taxes On The Middle Class"
Another presidential campaign means it's time to bring back the "Latest Lie" series.And here's the latest lie. Campaigning in Nebraska Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said, "Well, we're not going...
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Protesters Disrupt Trump Economic Speech Over Outsourcing, Women
When Republican candidate Donald Trump says we should keep jobs in the U.S., he doesn't mean what people think he means. He wants to make the U.S. just as low-wage as elsewhere, to be "competitive."...
View ArticleClinton Should Tell Obama To Withdraw TPP To Save Her Presidency
xYouTube VideoDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) but is having trouble convincing people to believe her. Imagine the trouble Hillary...
View ArticlePresident Tells Congress TPP Is Coming Their Way. What Will Clinton Do?
xYouTube VideoOne day after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton strongly underscored her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a speech in Detroit, President Obama officially started the...
View ArticleTrump Trade Position Is Opposite Of What People Think It Is
One of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's stronger economic appeals to working-class voters is his position on trade. Trump understands that people are upset that "trade" deals have moved...
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CEO Of Giant Corporation Tells US Government He's The Boss Of Them
Are We the People the boss of giant multinational corporations, or are they the boss of us?Imagine, if you will, going to the IRS and saying, "I don't think the tax rate is fair so I'm not going to pay...
View ArticleBanks Used Low Wages, Job Insecurity To Force Employees To Commit Fraud
The manager instructed her to push accounts but not to tell the customers about the downfalls and fees of new accounts. "Make them read the paperwork." She replied, "But you know no one ever reads the...
View ArticleRepublicans 'Working The Ref' With War On IRS
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was forced to testify on Wednesday before a Republican impeachment committee. Republicans are doing this because the IRS (under a previous commissioner) dared to check...
View ArticleHow Clinton Can Use The Debate To Change The National Discussion
Everyone has an opinion on what Hillary Clinton should do in the Monday's debate, and this is mine. Hopefully I will be wrong enough to earn a regular column on the New York Times op-ed page.This...
View ArticleOregon Locals Take On Corporate Power With ‘Tax Corporations’ Measure 97
Much of Congress is captured by corporate money. So literally nothing gets through Congress if it interferes with the corporate/1% -boosting agenda. Many in the federal regulatory agencies are captured...
View ArticleSmall Businesses Say Trump Is Wrong
One (more) of the way this country is split is a sharp divide between what small businesses need and what the giant, multinational corporations want (and usually get.) According to a coalition...
View ArticleElection Day Is Not The End Of The Fight, It Is The Beginning Of The Fight
Nicole Sandler is back on the air! Sandler is one of the best progressive media people out there and has been doing her show daily for years. Wednesday she interviewed Mike Lux, in her first regular...
View ArticleWatch Out For The Coming Corporate Tax-Break Trickery
One of the biggest fights coming up in the newly elected Congress next year will be "corporate tax reform."If you follow policy news you've been hearing that Congress wants to "reform" corporate taxes...
View ArticleReport Warns TPP Will Force Another Mass-Migration Into US
“Look around the rain-fed corn farms in Oaxaca state, and in vast areas of Mexico, and one sees few young men, just elderly people and single mothers.”Trade agreements can be used to boost prosperity...
View ArticleThe Damage From Free Trade Helped Elect Trump
It seems that lots of media/political/business people "on the coasts" don't get how big a deal trade played in Tuesday's election.Sold On Free TradeIn the late 70s the country was told that...
View ArticleTrump's Absurd Plan To Dismantle Government's Protections
Donald Trump released a video announcing his agenda for his "first day in office." One of the things he said is, "I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old...
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Trump Punch Down Strategy Endangers Local Union Leader
"You better keep your eye on your kids. We know what car you drive." That's the kind of threats a local union official is getting after President-presumed-Elect Donald Trump tweeted something bad about...
View ArticleTrump Declares TPP Still Dead. So Now What?
President Trump formally withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Though TPP was killed by a long progressive fight that resulted in it not having the votes to pass Congress, of...
View ArticleHolocaust Denial and Religious Persecution, Courtesy of the White House
Friday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. As you may have heard, the White house marked the occasion with this statement:It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims,...
View ArticleThis Isn’t Just Trump. This Is Who The Republicans Are.
So far President Trump has signed very few bills. One lets coal companies dump waste into streams. The other lets oil companies bribe foreign dictators in secret. And he is moving to block a Labor...
View ArticleThe 'Lower The Tax Rate To Attract Businesses' Competitiveness Scam
Now that Republicans are running Congress and the executive branch, they're planning to "reform" (cut) corporate taxes (again). This time they using the subterfuge of "this will make companies more...
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Tax Cuts Steal Democracy
The Trump administration, as have all Republican administrations, is promoting tax cuts for the rich, saying they will "create growth." Never mind the destructive history of tax cuts, the destructive...
View ArticleDid Trump Attack Syria for Personal Profit?
At any other time, the questions raised by (fill in the blank) would be the scandal of the decade. Now, with Donald Trump as president, we call it Monday.Thursday evening, Trump attacked Syria, a...
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United Incident Shows Why Democracy Needs To Re-Regulate Corporations
In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that's how it's supposed to work.Apparently, that isn't so much the way it is anymore. The United States used...
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Tax Cuts Defund The Very Things That Boost The Economy
After 8 years of complaining about "Obama deficits," Republicans are proposing huge, dramatic, unprecedented tax cuts, especially for corporations. President Trump wants the rate cut from 35% down to...
View ArticleImpeachment Is Not Enough
The problem with impeachment is it doesn't really solve our problem. The problem we have goes so far beyond just Trump and into flaws in the the design of our system.George Washington established rule...
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