Corporate capital has pulled the plug on America
Is today's corporate elite meaner than capitalists and wealthy families of the previous era? Perhaps, but there are more fundamental reasons for their behavior.
A do-it-yourself kit on plutocracy and the deficit
How can you tell whether you live in a plutocracy? Easy. Just conduct this simple test.
Austerity is wrong medicine for bleeding economy
What is delaying an economic recovery is not too much spending and a growing deficit, but not enough federal spending.
Election thoughts from the guy who delivers your mail
Wow - Election 2010 is over. I am still tryin' to put the whole thing in perspective.
Organized jobless: a powerful force
At few times in our nation's history has the cry for jobs - and the need to organize those doing the crying - been more apparent and more possible.
Wall Street doesn’t hurt when Main Street bleeds
The main sections of capital, like right-wing extremism that does its bidding, are comfortable with a slow-growth economy - but they can be beat.
That's capitalism: the super rich pay zero U.S. taxes
Corporate taxes are not too high - they are way too low. In fact the majority of big corporations operating in the U.S. pay no taxes at all. That's right: zero.
Republican “jobs” plan: tax cuts for the rich
Give a business owner a million dollars a day in "incentives" - if no one is coming into the store, the owner will not create a single new job.
Television gets “Outsourced”
Somehow, an NBC sitcom about U.S. jobs going overseas is becoming a hit.
Investing in clean transportation could create 3.7 million jobs
Comprehensive energy and climate policies, and infrastructure spending on clean transportation, could create 3.7 million jobs in the U.S., a new study shows.
