Leonard Isenberg: George Carlin puts it rather succinctly when he says, “They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.”
Memorial Day 2011: Two Names That Matter
May 30, 2011 By
Walter Brasch: Here are two names you probably never heard of. Sergeant First Class Clifford E. Beattie and Private First Class Ramon Mora Jr.
Herding Cats in Rancho Mirage
February 6, 2011 By
Dick Price: Perhaps Common Cause can be a kind of can opener in offering its resources as a clearinghouse for information about progressive causes and as an organizing agent to pull together like-minded individuals and organizers as it did last Sunday.
A Brewery Gone Green
February 5, 2011 By
Jerry Drucker: If President Obama wants to push ahead into the new century regarding a self-sustaining “Made in America,” energy policy, there is no better example than the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Davos and the Wretched of the Whole Earth
February 4, 2011 By
Carl Bloice: While Davos wound down, most of the world’s attention was focused on events in Egypt, and to lesser extent on Tunisia and Yemen. However, it would be a big mistake to assume the moving and shaking that has commenced is somehow restricted to “the Arab world.”
How Cheap Food Is Destabilizing Global Economy
February 4, 2011 By
Nick Cullather: The global economy includes the global countryside, and the return of prosperity will have to begin there.
As Tea Party Koch Brothers Earned $11 Billion, They Laid Off Thousands
February 3, 2011 By
John’s Lament
January 29, 2011 By
John Blue: Chattel slavery may be gone for good, but today’s economic slavery may be little better; with the too-high unemployment and foreclosure rates and union membership ever declining, a lot of people “owe their soul to the Company store” and who among them is so bold to challenge their bondage?
Palm Springs Weekend
January 28, 2011 By
Sharon Kyle: The billionaire Koch brothers, David and Charles, are hosting their bi-annual meeting of right-wing billionaires. Odds are you’re probably not a right-wing billionaire and weren’t invited to their event. But, no worries, a coalition of progressive organizations has planned an event just for you.
Fearful “Liberals” Prolong the Corruption
January 28, 2011 By
Jim Fuller: Rather than being genuine political liberals and/or progressives, those self-deluding, unquestioning Obama supporters are far more closely related to the members of the various Tea Party organizations than they are to anyone on the political left.
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