Billionaire Koch’s Promote Hard Right Propaganda Narrative That ‘Greed Is Good’
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
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Wall Street Billionaire Puzzled by Bernie Sanders’ Popularity
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Koch Brothers and Their Front Group ALEC Attempt to Destroy Nation’s Solar Industry
The fight over solar net metering in Nevada just got personal last Friday, with a proposed new amendment tacked on...
The Revolt of the Middle Class
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Top 10 Corporate Tax Dodgers
Bernie Sanders is making Big Business shudder by using his platform as a presidential candidate to expose the top 10...
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats and Prejudice
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
The One Percent Often Shuns Those Less Fortunate
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
Right-Winger David Brooks Thinks Oligarchs Should Be Running The Country
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Will Save American Families $1200 a Year
This week Hillary Clinton’s campaign launched a barrage of assaults on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer healthcare plan, claiming that the plan...
Why Organized Labor is More Important Than Ever
Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of...
170 Economists and Analysts Support Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Break Up the Big Banks
After his ground-breaking speech earlier this month announcing his plan for Wall Street reform, Bernie Sanders’ has seen enormous support...
Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
NPR: The ‘Hidden History’ Of The Koch Brothers
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Paul Krugman: Privilege, Pathology and Power
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
Evidence Shows That Raising Restaurant Workers’ Wages Doesn’t Cause Job Loss
Low-income workers rallied across the country to turn the minimum wage into a livable one in 2015. As servers and...
Bernie Sanders Calls Out “Pathological Liar” Trump For Lying About His Tax Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ripped Donald Trump apart after the billionaire lied about the Sanders tax plan. At the...
Obama’s Executive Action Insures That 5 Million Workers Will Get A Raise In 2016
In June, President Obama signed an executive order that directed the Labor Department to chance the rules for overtime pay....
The One Percent Has Devised A Tax System That Saves Them Billions
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...
Bernie Sander’s Plan to Prevent Corporate Tax Dodging
Sanders has proposed a detailed plan for addressing the country’s infrastructure needs, with an investment of $1 trillion. His plan...
Bernie Sanders Explains the Divide and Conquer Strategy of the ‘Ruling Class’
In his wide-ranging interview with “Killer Mike,” Bernie Sanders drew on his knowledge of the civil rights era to show...
Bill Moyers: The One Percent Must Not Be Allowed To Win
Dear Readers: In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington...
How the United States Transformed Into a ‘Dual Economy’ and What Can Be Done
In the America of haves and have-nots, fewer folks are “movin’ on up” like George Jefferson of the classic sitcom....
Paul Krugman: The One Percent Attempts to Rewrite History of Financial Crisis
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
Tyson Foods: Carving Up Workers’ Comp
About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw...
Investigation Reveals That A Few Wealthy Families Are Attempting To Buy American Democracy
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Corporate Media For Blocking His Message
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on...
How Rich Corporations Get Away With Murder
Legal activists have long observed that there are two systems of law in America, one for the rich and one...
Robert Reich: How To Punish Disloyal Corporations
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move...
Evidence That Many Poor People Are Among The Hardest Workers
Many wealthy white conservative males believe they deserve their good fortunes, and that the poor are taking handouts. But on...
8 Ways the One Percent Show Their Warped Values and Desire to Destroy the Public’s Safety Net
The richest Americans increasingly are taking over the levers of power and shaping the political debate, despite opposing views held...
GOP Plans To Rob Taxpayers and Bankrupt America with Bloated Pentagon Spending
Apparently, there are Americans who hate the idea of contributing to the general welfare of the United States, what George...
Major powers pledge $20 billion for green energy research
The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total of $20bn...
Drug Giant Pfizer Moves Its Operations to Ireland to Dodge Taxes
Drug giant Pfizer has merged with Irish company Allergan in order to benefit from tax evasion by relocating its headquarters...
House Republicans Accused of Harassing Climate Scientists
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation...
How Union Buster Walmart Spies On Its Massive Workforce
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized...
Republican Establishment Frets As ObamaCare’s Popularity Increases In Red States
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is...
Bernie Sanders: “People Are Not Truly Free When they are Unable to Feed Their Family”
Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon to address his political stance as a Democratic Socialist. His...
Louisiana Vote Sets Stage to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care
Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn’t even...
Legacy of Failure: 9 of 12 States With Highest Unemployment Are Run By Republican Governors
New state unemployment statistics revealed that the fastest way to sink an economy is to vote for Republican candidates. According...
President Obama Against Effort To Block White-Collar Crime Prosecutions
The White House is not happy about language on corporate crime that the House Judiciary Committee approved on Wednesday as...
Millennials are Revitalizing Organized Labor
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Congressional Republicans want to make it harder to go after corporate criminals
Not one Wall Street executive was criminally charged following the 2008 global financial collapse, and if the Koch brothers and House...
Bernie Sanders Opposes Nomination of FDA Chief Over Ties to Big Pharma
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday said he would vote against President Barack Obama’s nomination to head up the Food...
CBS Analyst Frank Luntz Received $1.5 Million From The Koch Brothers to Spew Right-Wing Koch Propaganda
A newly-released IRS filing reveals that a central group in Charles and David Koch’s financial network paid CBS News analyst...
