Major corporate money was behind Dems as well What’s needed in this country is independent politics, new independent organizing is needed, new organizations, online and offline,that don’t take their leadership from Harry Reid or Obama or White House operatives. You’ve got to chart an independent course. Interview with Jeff Cohen Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, [...]
If Obama and Democrats had fought harder for more stimulus, they would have faired better The stimulus that was passed was about one-eighth the size of what was needed just to make up for the falloff in demand, in private demand that you had from the bursting of the real estate bubble. So, in other [...]
Like the rally led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets of Washington DC on Saturday, Brazil’s election on Sunday was a contest of “Restore Sanity” versus “Keep Fear Alive.” by Mark Weisbrot Dilma Rousseff, who has won the election for president of [...]
How Obama’s Initial Personnel Decisions Hardwired the Wipeout In trying to understand why the Democrats just crashed and burned, I think the first layer in peeling the onion takes the form of an admission to two crucial mistakes made by Obama before he took office. He campaigned brilliantly on a vague theme of change. In [...]
These are extreme times. I’m not going to sit quietly as our future is ripped out from under us. I will not let my family’s well being and our country’s fate be decided by short-sighted greed addicted forces that have looted the global economy and brought poverty, death and destruction throughout the world. I see [...]
Interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury The San Jose Mine incident in Chile has brought back old questions about labor and capital. About those questions, raised by the 33 miners’ struggle to survive, I interviewed Michael D. Yates, Associate Editor of Monthly Review. Yates was for many years professor of economics at the [...]
Washington Post Politics Writer Calls for War With Iran to Boost the Economy By Mark Thoma|Oct 31, 2010, 11:27 PM|Author’s Website I don’t know if I can muster the shrillness this deserves, so let me turn it over to Dean Baker and Brad DeLong. Brad DeLong first: There Should Be Resignations in Protest and on [...]
C’est pas fini ! Battle over Pension “Reform” Isn’t Over For the seventh time in the last two months, millions of French working people took to the street yesterday in a day of workers’ strikes and mobilizations against the “reform” of pensions and retirement rights by the right-wing government of Nicolas Sarkozy. The marches were [...]
“America today is waging not only an immoral and unjust war abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also a more insidious high-intensity war at home against any viable notion of the social.” by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account [...]
“I have a specific personal experience with Man Against Myth which, I believe, bears retelling. This may even be of some benefit to the younger members of the academic community. As I acquired some reputation as a teacher, I also stood charged with being a teacher with a ‘bias’, possibly the most damning charge that [...]