It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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"Petcoke" from Tar Sands Warms Climate More Than Coal
Environmental groups last week released a study that found refining tar sands will create 5 billion tons of burnable petroleum coke, or petcoke, which emits more CO2 than coal.
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How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
A member of the Federal Reserve Board argued last week that megabanks not only threaten taxpayers with bailouts and should be broken up, but their continuing failure to lend is also thwarting the economy.
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European Parliament Approves Financial Transaction Tax
By an overwhelming majority, 533 Members of the European Parliament voted in late 2012 in favor of a Financial Transaction Tax, bringing the Robin Hood Tax one step closer to reality.
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Dr. Occupy, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Run for Congress
I'm one of the minority in the Occupy movement who optimistically believes our politics can be redeemed, that direct action tactics and grassroots campaigns can be brought successfully to electoral politics. So I ran for office.
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The Battleline: Their Coal Exports Or Our Future
The public commenting period to block the latest massive coal export facility from being built at Cherry Point in Washington state ends tomorrow. The future belongs to Peabody Coal and Goldman Sachs, or it belongs to us.
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Revealed: The EPA Censored Evidence Linking Methane Contamination to Fracking
An investigation published last week revealed that the Obama Administration's EPA censored a scientific report explicitly linking methane migration to hydraulic fracturing.
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New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture
Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.
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Is the "Democracy Initiative" Really What We Need?
The goals adopted by this progressive alliance cannot lead an effort to mobilize the majority of working people because they do not directly address the issues immediately impacting millions of workers.
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Ending the Secrecy of Cayman Off-Shore Tax Havens
The legendary secret tax haven status of the Cayman Islands appears finally to be coming to an end.
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"Thank God for the Fascists": A Dispatch from Weimar Greece
The "revolutionary infrastructure" of Athens's volatile neighborhood Exarcheia appears now to be gearing itself towards resisting, if not literally fighting, fascist violence and providing refuge for its victims.
