Stop Baby Boomer Bashing: Protect Social Security and Medicare
Remember all those headlines about how the baby boom cohorts just lost several trillion dollars in home equity due to the collapse of the housing bubble and how they lost trillions more in their retirement accounts as a result of the stock market crash?
A Dozen Books Worth Reading
Here are a dozen books Americans need to read as they paint a realistic picture of how our government’s policies are inflicting needless suffering at home and globally.
US Base in Italy Gets Final Approval, But Not From Italian People
At a press conference on Friday, February 20, Italian Special Commissioner Paola Costa and US Consul General from Milan, Daniel Weygandt, announced final approval for a new US military base in Vicenza, Italy.
Technological Climate Change Fixes
While most of the world fixates on how to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere, scientists and engineers around the world are busy working on various “geo-engineering” technologies to mitigate global warming and its effects.
Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change Unpredictable
New projections of the impact of climate change make headlines every day, but a report by a leading research institution has underlined the need for 'meaningful data' to help aid agencies prepare for the future.
'Beating Up on Old People' to Balance the Budget?
In the middle of one of the worst economic crises in American history and with massive spending projected to create new jobs and loosen the credit markets, the Obama administration has called a 'fiscal responsibility' summit for this Monday, Feb. 23.
Author Blasts US Government Treatment of Veterans from Iraq, Afghanistan
ATLANTA – 'The system we have for taking care of our veterans is more hostile than the IRS,' journalist and author Aaron Glantz used to describe the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs during a talk at The Carter Center Tuesday night, February 17, 2009.
Guitar Makers Go Green
Though it has not received a lot of press to date, the industry is on the case—in part for the sake of its own survival, and thanks to the hard work of a handful of green groups, guitar makers and wood suppliers.
The Stimulus and the Threat to Stability
If those numbers are to be considered alarming, consider the situation facing African American workers. This January the Black jobless rate hit 12.9 percent; it was 9.2 percent in January 2008. That's an increase of 3.7 percent points over 13 months.
Obama Plan to Aid 9 Million Homeowners
What do you do when congressional Republicans, out of a rigid ideological desire to see you fail, appear set to block any proposal you make? Go around them.
