I'm here in Butte, Montana for the international economic summit. The message is focused like a laser on demanding Congress pass more lobbyist-written "free" trade deals.
Why report real "news" when you can just make up screenplay-ready fiction? That's the question Beltway reporters seem to be asking these days - at lea...
This week, we have two specific reasons to be hopeful that yes, the People Party is asserting itself and yes, the Washington Establishment has a serious revolt on its hands.
Over the last week, we here in the rural state of Montana were the target of an intense onslaught by conservative class warriors.
How come Big Money interests believe they should be able to sue America's federal, state and local governments to protect their profits, but unions shouldn't be able to have the same right?
If global trade had basic standards, then we would be closer to a situation where natural advantages or even human-supported positive investments would create real comparative advantages.
CBS 60 Minutes' piece on Lou Dobbs last night told us a lot more about traditional journalism's biases than it did about Dobbs'.
This is how it works in the Beltway - a place where the K Street's tentacles reach not just for the Republicans, but for top Democrats as well.
The National Association of Manufacturers is not really interested in representing its members anymore -- it is interested in being an arm of the Republican Party.
Here we are, once again at the mercy of a small faction of Blank Check Democrats threatening to essentially overturn the 2006 election's mandate and give the big middle finger to the majority of the American people.
Yesterday was a whirlwind day on the political frontlines in the War on the Middle Class: a "deal" on a package of trade agreements that could impact millions of American workers.
Steelworkers demand to know why Dems are keeping the deal secret and teamsters say they will "Fight like hell" against the deal. The battle lines are being drawn.
This is the third in a series of posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal this past week between a handful of senior Democrats and...
It has now been four days since a secret free trade deal was announced, and the specific legislative language of the deal remains secret.
It is now five days since a handful of senior Democrats joined with the Bush administration to announce a new "deal" on free trade, while refusing to release the actual legislative language of the deal.
The enforceability of the promised labor and environmental provisions hinge on the Peru and Panama free trade agreements being reopened so that their texts can be modified.
Six days after the press conference announcing a secret free trade deal between Democratic congressional leaders and the Bush White House, a full-scale revolt appears to be brewing on Capitol Hill.
This is another in a series of ongoing posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal on May 10, 2007 between a handful of senior Democrats and the Bush administration.
This is another in a series of ongoing posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal on May 10, 2007 between a handful of senior Democr...
This is another in a series of ongoing posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal on May 10, 2007 between a handful of senior Democr...
The drive to triangulate on trade has now reached a point where the handful of Democrats who made the deal are publicly attacking those rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers and groups raising questions about the deal.
Cokie Roberts acknowledges that she is an "ardent free trader" who has "long been skeptical of including labor and environmental rules in trade deals" because she claims "they smacked too much of protectionism."
On Friday, I was honored to give the keynote address to this year's Montana AFL-CIO Convention in Butte - a town that has been at the forefront of the labor movement's most important struggles.
Dems feared the concessions would elicit opposition from the majority of their own congressional Democratic colleagues.
Today is the day House Democrats are expected to vote on Iraq - except, news out of Washington this morning says the leadership has come up with a nif...
