Guide to Bush-McCain Crisis, Week 3
The week of September 29th, 2008 opened with the failure in Congress of the Bush bailout plan. Ongoing opposition to a Wall Street bailout without preconditions may have major repercussions. Read below.
In Western Michigan, Obama Calls for 'Middle Class' Bailout
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Barack Obama emphasized the need to bail out working families not just Wall Street at a campaign stop here, Thursday, Oct. 2.
Photos: Migrant Farm Workers in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Indigenous Mixtec farm workers in a crew of migrants from the Mexican state of Guerrero pick avocados on the Parks ranch in Goleta, on the California coast near Santa Barbara.
'Socialism of the Heart' Makes a Come-back: Talking with Billy Bragg
We all loved his collaboration with folk-rocking band Wilco that produced the two-disk Mermaid Avenue collection of reproduced Woodie Guthrie songs. Many of his albums from Workers Playtime to William Bloke are must haves for any progressive's music collection.
Here's How to Fix the Wall Street Mess
The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country!
Finances and the Current Crisis: How did we get here and what is the way out?, Pt. 2
The turmoil in financial markets and the bailout to the tune of $700 billion has turned the public eye and wrath on Wall Street and Washington. While millions are aware of the triggering causes, ranging from predatory lending to deregulation to insatiable greed, what isn’t so obvious is the longer-term process.
Se acaba una epocha y se abre ortra digtates
Hace pocas semanas recibí una alerta por correo electrónico de un amigo, a tomar acción a favor de la Federación Norteamericana de Empleados Estatales, de Condado y Municipales (AFSCME, por sus siglas en inglés) defendiéndoles a los trabajadores públicos de California frente a los graves recortes presupuestales propuestos por el gobernador Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Book Review: The New Asian Hemisphere
Kishore Mahbubani’s new book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, is a sobering text that should be read with three points in mind.
