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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The One Percent Blues
The hugely rich have always been with us, of course, but now it’s… different.
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Executive Excess 2013: Bailed Out, Booted and Busted
Nearly 40 percent of the highest-paid CEOs in recent decades eventually needed to be rescued, fired or jailed. This analysis reveals widespread poor performance within America’s elite CEO circles.
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Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 3
This third of a three-part series looks at the development of the commons, legal, free knowledge, senior citizen's revolution and neo-internationalist micro-utopias that have evolved out of the 15M movement in Spain.
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Ellen Brown: The Leveraged Buyout of America
Giant banks are buying up our country’s infrastructure, the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy. Aren’t there rules against that?
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Major Corporations Drop GMOs in Europe, But Keep Feeding Them to the U.S.
Corporations like Kellogg, Pepsi, Kraft, Coke and Heinz will now drop GMO foods from their European products, while leaving GMO-sourced food in the U.S. supply. Don't Americans deserve to eat GMO-free food too?
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Robert Reich: The Truth About the Economy
Since 1980, America has doubled in size. However, most wages have barely increased.
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Is the NSA Using Copyright Claims To Crush Free Speech?
Can a government agency block criticism by claiming copyright infringement? Sounds ridiculous, but it's happening. The NSA is effectively stopping one small business owner from criticism, claiming that by using its name he has infringed on their copyright.
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Inequality — Why Are the Rich Getting Richer?
Many of the biggest social and economic problems that we're facing today are consequences of the same root problem: the way that money is created.
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92-Year-Old Woman Sues North Carolina Over New Wave Of Voter Suppression
Rosanell Eaton, who at 21 became one of the first African Americans in her county to vote, is one of several individuals and civil rights groups suing the state for what may be the most restrictive voting law in the nation.
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"The 99%: Occupy Everywhere," Narrated By Lou Reed, Launches Next Week
This award-winning film documents how private money in politics has undermined democracy and transferred income from 99% of Americans to multinational corporations and the wealthy.
