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My Conversation with Goldman
This week I had an opportunity most Americans would relish, just as I did. I was able to unload on two top executives of Goldman ...
Trade reform - save jobs, save the planet
Trade and globalization - when not referencing blockbuster sports transactions or raucous street protests, debates over these abstract terms can give Ambien and Jack Daniels ...
Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military
At approximately 1:30 p.m. CST today, a soldier went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding at ...
Deliver the Goods
Rather than being an overwhelming sweep, most elections are a mix of good and bad news for each political party and the progressive and conservative ...
Pelosi Arrested Us for Asking for Healthcare
Around 3PM this afternoon I was one of 12 single payer activists who were escorted from the reception area of Nancy Pelosi's office in the ...
Keep consumers safe by bringing back Glass-Steagall Act
A year ago the U.S. Treasury was pumping billions of borrowed dollars into banks judged to be "too big to fail." This cannot be allowed ...
Robert Fisk: America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator
Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held ...
Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar
“When the history of this distinguished court is written, today’s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,” writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean ...
Trouble Ahead: Can the Right Seize the Banking Reform Issue in 2010?
Eliot Spitzer explains how the White House defense of the status quo will give Republicans powerful ammunition in the 2010 elections.Few things are as potent ...
Phantom fear of Taliban is driving the war in Afghanistan
New York -- The recent suicidal violence in Pakistan coincides with a growing concern that President Obama might be tempted by the same folly that ...
Today's Lessons of Daniel Ellsberg
Editor’s Note: Several recent events have highlighted the importance of speaking truth to power in the context of the "war on terror" – see, for ...
TARP on Steroids
I recall that September day like it was yesterday—the explosion so stunning, so memorable. It wasn’t 9/11/01, it was 9/29/08—a moment when a rare blast ...
Business leaders' opposition to public health insurance option takes chutzpah
Eastman Kodak Co. has said sayonara to about 22,000 workers over the last five years. Verizon Communications Inc. says it will have handed about 16,000 ...
Kucinich Fights to Restore State Single Payer Amendment
Washington D.C. – Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requesting that Democratic Leadership restore the Kucinich Amendment to ...
Break Up the Banks
As the battle over financial reform takes shape, it's become clear there are essentially three camps. The first, represented by the American Bankers Association, which ...
Why I Am Risking Arrest for Medicare for All
Let me begin by saying that I don't have any desire to be arrested. I am a pediatrician with 3 teenagers and a husband who ...
Healthcare Hoax from Hell
Lies, damn lies, and promises from Democrats. An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, ...
Brave New Films Stands Alongside ACORN Against Extending the Defund ACORN Act
CULVER CITY, CA — Brave New Films is pushing to get Congress to vote against extending the Defund ACORN Act. The House is expected to ...
'Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags'
So we went out to Griffith Park out here in L.A. on Sunday to check out the kick-off day for the new "Tea Party Express ...
Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why Congress Won't Do It
And now there are five -- five Wall Street behemoths, bigger than they were before the Great Meltdown, paying fatter salaries and bonuses to retain ...
Afghan insurgency given new life by their enemies
This is the full text of an address given last Thursday by Paul McGeough, the chief correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, at a conference ...
It's About Time for a Showdown With the Banks
The timing is near perfect. Just as the showdown over financial reform is heating up in Congress and the media, a coalition of dozens of ...
How a Torture Protest Killed a Career
Editor’s Note: In this modern age – and especially since George W. Bush declared the “war on terror” eight years ago – the price for ...
The High Price of Abu Ghraib Truth
Editor’s Note: On Thursday night, former Army Sgt. Sam Provance received a letter of commendation from Common Cause – signed by former President Jimmy Carter ...
We can afford to save the planet
Here is the good news on the climate front: The Europeans have ratcheted down their emissions targets, the Chinese are getting serious about solar power ...
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