The Calls to Fire Eric Holder Should Worry Wall Street

There’s recently been a sharp increase in the bipartisan calls to fire Eric Holder, an opinion we endorse. We want the Obama administration to fire Eric Holder and replace him with someone who will prosecute Wall Street.

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A Baby Born in Parts of Ohio is More Likely to Die than One Born in North Korea or the Gaza Strip

Infant mortality rates higher than those of countries like Japan or Sweden are one thing— but North Korea? The Gaza Strip?

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U.S. Injustice Department: "Collateral Consequences" Prohibit Prosecuting Criminals

The U.S. Justice Department has established that too-big-to-fail financial institutions are immune from federal prosecution. But the vast majority of individual corporate criminals are being protected as well.

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"Our Forests Aren’t Fuel": A Campaign to Stop Burning America's Southern Woods

Forests in the American South are being logged and burned to generate electricity, and the region is now the largest exporter of wood pellets in the world.

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Quantitative Crisis: Bernanke's "Stimulus" For the 1%

The Fed's stimulus policies, expressed in the form of Quantitative Easing, amount to one of the most expensive forms of corporate welfare in history.

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Revealed: The World's Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income

Global inequality is much greater than inequality within any individual country.

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Exposed: List Emerges of Politicians Paid By Monsanto, As Senate Rejects States' Rights to Label GMOs

A quarter of the U.S. Senate is on Monsanto's payroll. No wonder the legislative body voted overwhelmingly against a GMO labeling amendment.

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Visa and Mastercard Ask Federal Court to Legalize Transaction Fees

The credit card giants have sued retailers who rejected a multibillion-dollar settlement over transaction fees.

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Exposed: Canadian Oil and Gas Workers, Many Unions, Now Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline

Amidst the ongoing jobs-vs-environment debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, one voice is noticeably absent: the bitumen workers in Canada who are largely against long-term tar sands extraction and the building of the pipeline.

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Half of America in Poverty — and It's Creeping Upward

The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. A shocking figure, but it's actually much, much worse.

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