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Watching Wall Street, Gabbard Introduces Accountability Act
US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawai‘i—District 2) on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, introduced House Resolution 3885, the Wall Street Banker Accountability for Misconduct Act, which would require senior executives at Wall Street’s biggest…
Save the Climate, Dismantle the Border Apparatus
Dotted throughout the Arizona-Sonora borderlands are more than forty new surveillance towers, the backbone of a “virtual wall” — the newest symbol of the border’s ever-expanding fortification. … Read the full article…
A plan to fix inequality would target CEOs who make 100 times more than their employees
America is riven by enormous income inequality. Should Silicon Valley’s very richest pay to make that better? That’s the question behind an intriguing and politically timely new proposal that San Francisco…
ICE detention center attack could have ties to extremist group
WASHINGTON (SBG) — A violent attack at an ICE detention center this past weekend has put a group known for violent protests back in the headlines. Outside the detention center…
Billionaires and American Politics
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation’s first billionaire president, it’s not hard to draw that conclusion. And…
Merger Mania
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,” he could never have dreamed of an arms-making…
If Trump Wants to ‘Talk About Our Missiles,’ Says Iranian Foreign Minister, US Must Stop Pouring Theirs Into Middle East
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Monday that if President Donald Trump truly wants to engage in good-faith negotiations over Iran’s ballistic missile program, his administration must stop selling tens of…
Building a movement with Rev. Dr. William Barber II: podcast and transcript
How do you build a movement? How do you connect people across race and religion and identity in order to create a united coalition? This is the work of Rev.…
Chuck Collins on tax reform
Chuck Collins, director for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, joins KPFA’s the Sunday Show to discuss tax reform and federal spending. Listen to the interview here.
Who Is Left Behind By The Tech Boom?
There is one issue that many Democratic presidential candidates seem eager to discuss this election season: how to close the persistent wealth gap between white Americans and communities of color. … Read…
Dramatic Coast Guard video spotlights one front in war on drug trafficking
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — The Coast Guard released dramatic bodycam video Thursday showing officers pursuing and boarding a semi-submersible drug-smuggling vessel in international waters to seize thousands of pounds of…
African American Wealth May Fall to Zero by 2053
You can have a glamorous six-figure salary, advanced degrees, and an executive title at a large corporation and still be impacted by the negative net worth virus that is prevalent…
As the American wage gap grows, workers of color are being left behind
There is one issue that many Democratic presidential candidates seem eager to discuss this election season: How to close the persistent wealth gap between white Americans and communities of color. … Read…
Cuba: Trump’s Sanctions Are Economic Warfare & Police Use Sonic Weapons On Teens
U.S. sanctions against Cuba are hurting millions of working class Cubans and the economy. Netfa Freeman joins Watching the Hawks to discuss. … Watch the full interview here.
The free trade myth
So-called free trade deals, like the proposed, post-Brexit US-UK arrangement, are designed to maximize US corporate profits and privatize resources in other nations, including land, water, services, and intellectual property.…
Mitch McConnell’s ancestors owned slaves: report
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently voiced opposition to reparations for the descendants of slaves, has slave owners in his Alabama family line — with two ancestors owning at…
Cocaine bricks keep washing up in the Philippines
Over the past few months, bricks of cocaine with a street value of millions have been washing up in eastern coastal provinces in the Philippines. In the latest incident, seven…
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of…
Report: Mitch McConnell found to be the direct descendant of 2 slave owners
Census records from the mid-1800s show that two great-great-grandfathers of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were slave owners, NBC News reports. … Read the full article at The Week.
After McConnell opposes reparations, NBC report shows his great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves
Two of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) ancestors owned a total of more than a dozen slaves, according to an investigation by NBC News completed shortly after McConnell spoke in opposition to…
How Trump Forced Democrats to Become the Party of War
In a special third segment of “By Any Means Necessary” Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Netfa Freeman, an analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies and coordinating committee…
Kamala Harris Proposes $100 Billion Black Homeownership Plan
Joining what seems like every black woman in America at Essence Fest, senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris unveiled a $100 billion plan to increase black homeownership that, if implemented,…
Asked about urban decay and homelessness, Trump offers senseless, babbling answer
Donald Trump recently gave a remarkable response to a question about “filth” in US cities from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. In an interview that must be seen to be believed, Trump babbles incoherently…
Jewish Groups Protest at Pelosi’s Office, Demand Closure of Border Migrant Facilities
Bay Area progressive Jewish groups protested outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco office Friday to demand the closure of border migrant facilities, echoing similar recent demonstrations on the East Coast.…
Bernie Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans
In an opinion article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called for an end to “corporate socialism” and made a claim about wealth inequality. … Read the…
Sorry ‘Washington Post’—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality
Bernie Sanders has, for a very long time, been complaining about economic inequality in America. He has made it a theme of his speeches, his books, his congressional service and…
Washington Post Dives to New Stupid Low to Attack Bernie
It’s the first day of July, so summer is here and rent is due. You probably have to pay your student loans and credit cards, too. Feeling a bit light…
WaPo Fact Checker’s New Bernie Sanders Category: TRUE BUT I DON’T LIKE IT
The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column turned its reptilian eye to statements made during last week’s second half of the first Democratic debate, and found some fibs (Joe Biden did oppose busing),…
Washington Post fact-check exposes how far media will go to cover up economic inequality
Fact-checking is a thriving media industry, but every now and then a fact-checker offers up a judgment so questionable that it shows just how biased a person can be in the…
The 10 books to read in August
August is traditionally a “dead month” in publishing, a time when every agent, editor and production director takes vacation, filling East Coast beaches with tote bags of unread manuscripts and…
