Category: Politics
Don’t Deck the Halls for This One
by Mattea Kramer | Dec 19, 2013 | Politics(Source: AP) Channeling the spirit of the holiday season, key lawmakers managed to set aside dysfunction and take the first step in a small budget deal for the 2014 fiscal year. Back in October, Congress ended the 16-day government shutdown that cost this country 120,000 jobs by appointing a 29-member, bipartisan Budget Conference Committee to […]
The Betrayal of the Democratic Party
by John Russo | Dec 19, 2013 | PoliticsNext month, we celebrate two anniversaries—the beginning of the War on Poverty (1964) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, 1994). So it is a good time to consider how these two programs affected the working class and how they continue to shape working-class political attitudes toward the Democratic Party. The War on Poverty […]
Cholera in Haiti: The Cost of Foreign Intervention
by Manuel Barcia | Dec 4, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Source: NPR) The Artibonite River is the most important river in the island of La Hispaniola. Its sources are in the Dominican Republic, but the majority of its course is to be found in Haiti until its waters meet the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Gonâve. The river constitutes a lifeline for hundreds of […]
Entitlement ‘Reformers’ Admit Taxing the Rich Would Help, a Lot
by Aaron Bornstein | Dec 3, 2013 | Economy(Source: @FixTheDebt) Austerity has always been a political choice, not a practical one. That point was underscored yet again when the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) released a report on the pensions enjoyed by backers of Fix The Debt, a corporate-funded austerity advocacy. The tax that funds Social Security stops at $113,700 of annual income. […]
The Democrat’s Conspicuous Silence on Iran
by M.J. Rosenberg | Dec 3, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Source: Reuters via Business Insider) It didn’t take long for one prominent neocon to figure out that the Iran deal—and the prospect of ending the stalemate with Iran without recourse to war—has put the Democrats in a box. In the normal course of affairs, Democrats would be ecstatic about the agreement that Secretary of State […]
Bad Faith Documentary
