We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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How Secret Wall Street Fees Are Bleeding Our Cities Dry
A new project launched by the Public Banking Institute, called "What Wall Street Costs America," shines light on the way that enormous fees being paid out by local governments to big banks are bankrupting communities across the country.
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Doctors Be Damned: Unfair Health Contract Sparks Exodus of UK Medical Professionals
The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."
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Merchandised Consumer Democracy: The Cause of the Economic Cancer in the United States
A socially democratic citizens’ revolution to secure a new and just government and economy is an immediate necessity.
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Fed's Kashkari, in first speech, suggests radical Wall St. overhaul
Neel Kashkari, the Fed's newest policymaker and a former Goldman Sachs exec who helped manage the government's rescue of the financial industry, called on lawmakers this week to take radical action to rein in banks and protect taxpayers.
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Bernie Sanders Is A Candidate For, Not Of, Today’s Movements
Bernie's success thus far is a sign of what a sizable chunk of America is ready for, electorally speaking – democratic socialism – and it’s still hard to escape the feeling that he caught today’s social movements off guard.
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Take A Stand: We Cannot Outsource this Revolution
Now is the time for all of us, individually and collectively, to grab hold of the rope that is so frayed in our country’s collective consciousness.
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Student Debt Protests Escalate After Armed Marshals Arrest Man for Old Loans
Seven U.S. marshals armed with automatic weapons turned up at Paul Aker’s home in Houston, Texas, last week to arrest him over a $1,500 student loan debt dating back to 1987.
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Republicrat Cartel: America's Two Major Parties And the Chokehold On Democracy
The two dominant machines steering the U.S. electorate have consistently diminished the potential for a freer America – forming a political cartel with the purpose of maintaining concentrated power and restricting or repressing competition.
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Thomas Piketty On the Rise of Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Enters A New Political Era
The Vermont senator’s success demonstrates the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 elections.
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Call To Arms: Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Unlike politics, when it comes to climate change it's people against physics, which means that compromise and trade-off don’t work – it’s not “we should do this” or “we’d be wise to do this,” instead it’s simpler: “We have to do this.”
