Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Getting Cooperative in the New Economy
While Wall Street banks are on a trend of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Main Street businesses are generating community wealth while undergoing a transition of their own.
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The Latest Victims of Justice Department Overreach
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was sentenced Monday to 3.5 years in prison for revealing to the media that AT&T had configured its servers to allow access to iPad owners’ unsecured email addresses.
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1 Decade of War = 330,000 Killed, $4 Trillion in Costs
There is no turning the page on the wars of the last decade. The human costs of these conflicts will reverberate for years to come.
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Detroit Citizens Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Master
With his appointment of a new emergency financial manager, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is transforming Detroit into an occupied colony within the State.
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The Great European Fire Sale
An economic crisis that many proclaimed as the "death of neoliberalism" has instead been used to entrench neoliberalism.
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Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
A decade after the invasion of Iraq, don’t expect the vast numbers of media hotshots and U.S. officials who propelled that catastrophe to utter a word of regret.
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Revealed: "Monsanto Protection Act" Trumps U.S. Government
Monsanto snuck a "rider" last week into the latest Senate agricultural legislation, giving the biotech giant blanket immunity from USDA action to halt potentially harmful GMO crops.
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Naming and Shaming: 10 Worst Forbes Billionaires in 2013
The combined wealth of the world's billionaires this year hit an all-time high of $5.4 trillion, up from $4.6 trillion in 2012.
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FBI Surveillance Tool is Ruled Unconstitutional
A California federal court has ruled that a surveillance tool widely used by the FBI to obtain information on Americans without court oversight is unconstitutional.
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The Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific
When you can scoop up in our oceans more plastic than biomass, it's time to recognize that we may have a problem.
