Jobs or the Environment?
Soon it will be too late and we’ll have neither.
Billionaires with No Skin in the Game
If the top two percent is up in arms about losing their Bush tax cuts, why aren’t they generating any street heat?
In Fact, Fairly Taxing the Rich Won’t Scare Them Away
Recent research debunks some of the most common arguments against raising taxes on the richest Americans.
The Airline Industry’s Fee-for-All
Nearly every airline these days is addicted to fees.
Our Health Care System is Still Sick
The health industry is about making money, not healing.
Fly the Stingy Skies
Oh, I almost forgot the rest room fee.
Washington DC Premiere of “Shift Change,” Documentary on Employee Ownership and the New Economy
A new documentary, SHIFT CHANGE, highlighting a successful and growing cooperative and employee ownership sector in the United States, has its premiere with two screening events.
The Cost of Occupying Planet Earth
Even a conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes to an annual total of about $170 billion–or maybe even more.
Reconnecting the Balkans
“There is no success in the Balkans without reconnecting everything except politics.”
“Non-Member Observer Status” a Hollow Victory for Abbas
For President Mahmoud Abbas, the vote was a last-ditch attempt to boost his increasingly diminished relevance.
AlterNet: Five Job-Destroying CEOs Trying to “Fix” the Debt
In poll after poll, the American people say they are far more concerned about the jobs crisis than the “debt crisis.” A powerful coalition of CEOs says they have an answer for both problems.
People, Machines, and Challenging the Election Results in Ghana
The declared loser in the Ghana presidential election is not going gently into the electoral good night.
Deja Vu on the Korean Peninsula
North Korea will not consider relinquishing its nuclear program without fundamental changes to the security dynamic in the region.
Y-12 Activists May Be Barred From Bringing up the Morality of Nukes at Their Trial
Federal prosecutors seek to remove justification for the existence of nuclear weapons from the trial of the Transform Now Plowshares Three.
The Roundabout Road Back To Tahrir
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi may have inadvertently provided his critics with a temporary unifying device.