Ten Years After 9/11, Is the U.S. Deporting Those Who Threaten to Do Us Harm?

September 14, 2011 By Michele Waslin

Michele Waslin: Confirming what advocates had reported, while the overall number of deportations has increased, the actual numbers of deportations of terrorists, national security threats, and criminals have declined.

Kabul Attack Continues Taliban Control of War Narrative

September 14, 2011 By Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter: This week’s Taliban attacks on multiple targets in Kabul, including the U.S. Embassy and U.S.-NATO headquarters, are the latest and most spectacular of a long series of operations that have given the insurgents the upper hand in establishing the narrative of the war as perceived by the Afghan population.

How to Create More Jobs By Lowering Wages: Texas and America

September 14, 2011 By Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Perry and Romney can duke it out over who created the most jobs, but governors have as much influence over job growth in their states as roosters do over sunrises.

Republicans Not Anti-Science, Just Pro-Politics

September 14, 2011 By Tina Dupuy

Tina Dupuy: The GOP treats science as their illegitimate love child. They deny its existence for political purposes, while quietly funneling child support to it.

War: Fiscal Stimulus of Last Resort

September 13, 2011 By Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown: Diverting a portion of our massive war spending to peaceful use could add jobs, improve living standards, and add infrastructure, while reducing the national debt and balancing the government’s budget by increasing the tax base and government revenues.

The Oddness of the President’s Upcoming Deficit-Reduction Plan

September 13, 2011 By Robert Reich

Robert Reich: When unemployment is still in the stratosphere, it would be insane to start cutting the deficit by $3 trillion to $4 trillion. That would push unemployment into outer space.

Financial Regulation Kills Jobs? Perhaps Not

September 13, 2011 By Marian Wang -- Pro Publica

Marian Wang: But separate from the jobs created to actually handle new regulation, others have pointed out that regulations can have a long-term, positive effect on overall economic growth by preventing the types of crises that put an industry on life-support.

The Texas Economic Model

September 13, 2011 By Steve Hochstadt

Steve Hochstadt: Republicans don’t mention poverty, because they don’t plan to do anything about it. The millions of poor Americans are invisible to Republican politicians. They pretend that trickle-down economics will reach the poor, but it hasn’t and won’t.

S&P: So What!

September 12, 2011 By admin

Mark Pash: Ongoing investigations by the SEC and Justice Department, Congress and federal regulators who are looking at ways to implement the Dodd-Frank Act, which contains provisions aimed at reducing the raters’ role in the financial system.

How Big Government Enables Big Religion

September 12, 2011 By admin

Benjamin Zeller: Rick Perry may fill stadiums for rallies and he may even win the GOP nomination for President, but unlike Ike he will never be able to claim the mantle of a united Big Religion for himself.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, GOP Fiscal Terrorists

September 11, 2011 By Jerry Drucker

Jerry Drucker: The strongest answer to date in stopping the GOP onslaught is to replicate the wonderful and wise voters of Wisconsin.

A.J. Duffy: Truly a Man for All Seasons

September 11, 2011 By Leonard Isenberg

Leonard Isenberg: It is the ultimate chutzpah for LAUSD to now laud the supposed achievements of its students, while turning a blind eye to the corruption that tries to sell this fraudulent result to the people of Los Angeles.

Ten Years On: Operation Torture

September 11, 2011 By Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad: There is no such thing as a little torture or a little illegal bombing, a little war, a little fear. As with bloodletting, torture weakens the body politic. It is another legacy of 9/11.

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Workers and Environmentalists Unite!

September 11, 2011 By Shamus Cooke

Shamus Cooke: It should be painfully clear to even the most reality-blind politicians that the private sector has no interest in creating jobs; they are quite content sitting on their mountains of cash until wages fall low enough — due to massive unemployment — for them to hire more labor.

Should Blacks Be Satisfied with Obama’s Jobs Speech?

September 11, 2011 By David A. Love

David Love: The other side caters to their base, which includes the Tea Party, billionaires and hard right wing values voters. From time to time, the president needs to show that he cares about black people, as symbolism can go a long way.

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