Banks Used Low Wages, Job Insecurity To Force Employees To Commit Fraud
The manager instructed her to push accounts but not to tell the customers about the downfalls and fees of new accounts. "Make them read the paperwork." She replied, "But you know no one ever reads the...
View ArticleRepublicans 'Working The Ref' With War On IRS
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was forced to testify on Wednesday before a Republican impeachment committee. Republicans are doing this because the IRS (under a previous commissioner) dared to check...
View ArticleHow Clinton Can Use The Debate To Change The National Discussion
Everyone has an opinion on what Hillary Clinton should do in the Monday's debate, and this is mine. Hopefully I will be wrong enough to earn a regular column on the New York Times op-ed page.This...
View ArticleOregon Locals Take On Corporate Power With ‘Tax Corporations’ Measure 97
Much of Congress is captured by corporate money. So literally nothing gets through Congress if it interferes with the corporate/1% -boosting agenda. Many in the federal regulatory agencies are captured...
View ArticleSmall Businesses Say Trump Is Wrong
One (more) of the way this country is split is a sharp divide between what small businesses need and what the giant, multinational corporations want (and usually get.) According to a coalition...
View ArticleElection Day Is Not The End Of The Fight, It Is The Beginning Of The Fight
Nicole Sandler is back on the air! Sandler is one of the best progressive media people out there and has been doing her show daily for years. Wednesday she interviewed Mike Lux, in her first regular...
View ArticleWatch Out For The Coming Corporate Tax-Break Trickery
One of the biggest fights coming up in the newly elected Congress next year will be "corporate tax reform."If you follow policy news you've been hearing that Congress wants to "reform" corporate taxes...
View ArticleReport Warns TPP Will Force Another Mass-Migration Into US
“Look around the rain-fed corn farms in Oaxaca state, and in vast areas of Mexico, and one sees few young men, just elderly people and single mothers.”Trade agreements can be used to boost prosperity...
View ArticleThe Damage From Free Trade Helped Elect Trump
It seems that lots of media/political/business people "on the coasts" don't get how big a deal trade played in Tuesday's election.Sold On Free TradeIn the late 70s the country was told that...
View ArticleTrump's Absurd Plan To Dismantle Government's Protections
Donald Trump released a video announcing his agenda for his "first day in office." One of the things he said is, "I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old...
View ArticleTrump Punch Down Strategy Endangers Local Union Leader
"You better keep your eye on your kids. We know what car you drive." That's the kind of threats a local union official is getting after President-presumed-Elect Donald Trump tweeted something bad about...
View ArticleTrump Declares TPP Still Dead. So Now What?
President Trump formally withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Though TPP was killed by a long progressive fight that resulted in it not having the votes to pass Congress, of...
View ArticleHolocaust Denial and Religious Persecution, Courtesy of the White House
Friday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. As you may have heard, the White house marked the occasion with this statement: It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims,...
View ArticleThis Isn’t Just Trump. This Is Who The Republicans Are.
So far President Trump has signed very few bills. One lets coal companies dump waste into streams. The other lets oil companies bribe foreign dictators in secret. And he is moving to block a Labor...
View ArticleThe 'Lower The Tax Rate To Attract Businesses' Competitiveness Scam
Now that Republicans are running Congress and the executive branch, they're planning to "reform" (cut) corporate taxes (again). This time they using the subterfuge of "this will make companies more...
View ArticleTax Cuts Steal Democracy
The Trump administration, as have all Republican administrations, is promoting tax cuts for the rich, saying they will "create growth." Never mind the destructive history of tax cuts, the destructive...
View ArticleDid Trump Attack Syria for Personal Profit?
At any other time, the questions raised by (fill in the blank) would be the scandal of the decade. Now, with Donald Trump as president, we call it Monday.Thursday evening, Trump attacked Syria, a...
View ArticleUnited Incident Shows Why Democracy Needs To Re-Regulate Corporations
In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that's how it's supposed to work.Apparently, that isn't so much the way it is anymore. The United States used...
View ArticleTax Cuts Defund The Very Things That Boost The Economy
After 8 years of complaining about "Obama deficits," Republicans are proposing huge, dramatic, unprecedented tax cuts, especially for corporations. President Trump wants the rate cut from 35% down to...
View ArticleImpeachment Is Not Enough
The problem with impeachment is it doesn't really solve our problem. The problem we have goes so far beyond just Trump and into flaws in the the design of our system.George Washington established rule...
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