On this day 15 years ago: “A Senator is needed but missing.”
Well, not quite 15 years ago. But I had to add a comment to BFSkinner’s great diary: On this day 15 years ago: History was changed.“A Senator is needed but missing.”Jan 6, 2001, African-American...
View ArticleBudget Deal: Republicans In Service To Oil Companies, Never The Public
The "omnibus" budget for the next year is out. Here are some of the winners and losers.With a Republican Congress, every budget battle is about ratcheting down the things our government does to make...
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Citizens Deliver 150K Petitions Demanding Postal Banking
“The United States has two separate banking systems today – one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else,” - Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran, author of How the Other Half Banks."Car title...
View ArticleLack Of Public Options Shows How The Economy Gets Rigged Against Us
In a country with a Constitution beginning with the words, "We the People," should our economy work for all of us instead of just a few of us? You would think it should work for We the People, but...
View ArticleWait. Back Up. Sanders Only Has 1,000,000 Donors?
The Sanders campaign announced Saturday that it raised $33 million in the most recent quarter and a total for the last year of $73 million “from more than 1 million individuals who made a record 2.5...
View ArticleIs 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...
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