A tribute to Senator Mark Hatfield
Sen. Mark Hatfield was a man of conscience, and possessed a sense of right and wrong which overrode party loyalty.
FAA shutdown and labor's unhappy anniversary
It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow that sent the American labor movement tumbling into a decline it's still struggling to reverse.
S&P "bond vigilantes" take aim - at us
Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
Senator Sanders got it right
The passage of the debt ceiling bill marks a dangerous moment for the workers movement in this country.
A little debt-ceiling history, and a few suggestions
It was a double "hostage crisis": The right enforced party discipline on the whole GOP and then made the Democrats negotiate on its own terms.
Tea party takes America hostage on debt
The debt ceiling crisis is the latest in a series of hostage crises instigated by the extreme right wing.
Rick Scott refuses to accept badly needed health care money
Scott, a former hospital CEO and health care profiteer, was made famous by his adamant and vocal campaign against the Health Care Reform Bill which he still refers to as Obamacare.
Debt-ceiling disaster postponed - but not for long
The threat of default may have beeb averted, but working people will lose MORE ground.
Letter from a reader: Freedom means choice
One peoplesworld.org reader writes from Louisiana, land of the blues, on unemployment, ballot choices and getting a tax break for yachts.
