Paul Krugman: Our Political System Has Been Warped By A Small, Wealthy Minority
Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the concentrat...
Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the concentrat...
Dave Johnson | Posted 04.24.2012
The cause of our terrible economic inequality is clear: the 1% have too much power, and use that power to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us -- the 99%.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.27.2012
The new Republican budget (called the "Ryan Budget" by DC insiders) reflects current electoral reality: billionaires and corporations now finance cand...
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.22.2012
The new Republican budget plan: Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke. Tax cuts for the 1%, cuts in the things We, the People do for each other.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.12.2012
Democrats have to be perceived as actually fighting for the interests of the 99%. The way to be perceived as doing this is to actually do it
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.28.2012
Servitude: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life" Democracy: "a government in which ...
Derrick Darby | Posted 03.13.2012
Ron Paul and Martin Luther King Jr. would agree about the importance of restoring freedom to America. However, if we are burned up not by the MLK Day holiday but by the social engineering to advance the freedom of a select few, King's vision of freedom is clearly the way forward.
Dave Johnson | Posted 02.25.2012
Who is our economy for, anyway? In the United States, We, the People are supposedly in charge, and our country and economy are supposed to be managed ...
Elana Estrin | Posted 01.18.2012
Two days after Gabrielle Giffords was severely injured in a Tucson shooting, renowned journalist Bill Moyers found himself sitting in a radiology lab awaiting an MRI for a torn muscle.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.11.2012
In 1776, had the American revolutionaries tried the Barack Obama approach of "reaching out" in a spirit of "cooperation" with the Tories and the British Crown there never would have been a United States of America in the first place.
Matthis Chiroux | Posted 01.04.2012
Included at the core of the Occupy Wall Street movement's appeal to young people is a belief that America's electoral system is broken beyond repair. We don't even see a reason for winning anymore.
Bob Burnett | Posted 01.04.2012
Occupy Wall Street indicates the need for a new Declaration of Independence and a new form of government.
Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 01.02.2012
David Korten argues that both "peak oil" and climate change makes it imperative that we transition to a more localized food economy to insure continued access to adequate food supplies.
David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 12.31.2011
To help my students think about the way the market works, and especially how it affects real people, I have them play Monopoly. But I modify the rules to make the game more realistic.
Peter M. Shane | Posted 12.11.2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement has brought a level of energy and inspiration to participatory Left politics unseen since the 2008 Obama campaign and ...
Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 12.05.2011
In this frank interview with noted author and visionary David Korten, he minces no words about the dangers our current capitalist system poses to demo...
Larry Flynt | Posted 08.30.2011
When it came to setting up our government, Thomas Jefferson had three concerns: tyranny of kings, tyranny of theocrats, and tyranny of the wealthy. For the time being we seem to be safe from kings and theocrats. We are not, however, safe from the superrich.
Dave Johnson | Posted 08.02.2011
Republicans understand that making things worse now helps Republicans later. The question is why aren't Democrats and the President focusing on making things better now to help themselves and all of us later?
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.31.2011
As a result of Reagan-era changes, our trade deficits soared, wages stagnated, pensions disappeared, and a few extremely wealthy started getting much, much richer.
Dave Johnson | Posted 06.20.2011
Here's the thing: what the public wants actually would fix the borrowing. And what the plutocrats want would make it worse. So maybe the public isn't that stupid after all.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Not only did GE, the highly-profitable recipient of federal contracts and bailout money, not pay taxes, we paid them $3.2 billion.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
There has been a virtual blackout of information about unions in the corporate media: More than 1/3 of the public hasn't heard enough about unions to know if they like them or not.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Why isn't the economy producing lots of good jobs? Plutocracy forces the money and power to the top, and that power forces austerity measures on us to remove money and power from the rest.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama is being forced to rip open the social fabric of this country to reduce the Bush generated debts.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
DEMOCRACY PLUTOCRACY We, the People Wealthy Few One Person One Vote One Dollar One Vote ...
The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.04.2012