By Robert Reich – Huffington Post.
The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn’t really a bill at all. It’s the Fed’s attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy (“quantitative easing” … Read more »
An Analysis of 10 Research Collaboration Contracts Between Leading Energy Companies and Major U.S. Universities, Including UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford
In this new study, Jennifer Washburn analyzes 10 research collaboration contracts between leading energy companies and major … Read more »
by Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Pat Garofalo, and Tanya Somanader — ThinkProgress.org
Yesterday, all 50 state attorneys general opened a joint investigation into the ongoing foreclosure fraud scandal that has led some of the … Read more »
Since ThinkProgress.org reported on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s foreign sources of funding last week, the media appears to have been confused about the report due to the spin coming from the right. Here are the facts that our report … Read more »
From: http://www.commondreams.org/print/61180
By Robert Reich.
Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before – and they’re doing it behind … Read more »
Click on the following link to read this article of interest:
http://www.openleft.com/diary/20399/the-most-important-political-story-of-the-year… Read more »
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN – New York Times.
Sacramento
The Terminator, a k a the Governator, is not happy. And you shouldn’t be either.
What has Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California incensed is the fact that two Texas oil companies … Read more »
Click here to read this blog by Michael Moore:
http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/266-32/3327-dwight-was-right… Read more »
By BOB HERBERT – New York Times.
One in five American kids was living in poverty in 2009. Across the country, once solidly middle-class families are lining up at food pantries and soup kitchens for groceries or a hot meal. … Read more »
Thinkprogress.org
Few cases define the Roberts Court like the recent decision in Citizens United v. FEC. With a wave of their hands, the Court’s five conservatives opened the floodgates to allow billions of corporate dollars to spill into American democracy. … Read more »
