Yearly Archives: 2016
The Billionaire Bankrolling the Latest Trade Deal Push
A corporate-backed study says the latest Washington trade scam will raise incomes — but for whom?
How Bernie Could Lose the Nomination But Win the Convention
Sanders is likely to reach the convention with more than 25 percent of the total delegates. That is enough, under convention rules, to force a “minority report” out of the platform committee.
All The Arguments Against Obama Nominating The Next Supreme Court Justice, Debunked
Republicans have advanced a number of arguments to defend their position. None of them hold up to scrutiny.
Unjust and Dysfunctional: Asylum in the UK
In its current, intensely bureaucratic form, the asylum process – particularly for people who are frightened of official agencies with their endless forms and impersonal approach – is at best intimidating, at worse dysfunctional.
Ford Becomes Latest Major Corporation to Dump ALEC
Ford has responded to consumer concern over its membership in ALEC - by dumping them.
Top Pollster Believes Bernie Will Win Next State Caucus
Looking at 7 different polls, it looks like Nevada's caucus might go to Bernie Sanders.
Japanese Hunters Evade Sea Shepherd, Kill Hundreds of Whales
The whalers expanded their hunting grounds in the Southern Ocean to make it difficult for the environmentalists to intercept them.
FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food
The federal agency already tests for residues of many agricultural chemicals on food. Now it will include the widely used weed killer linked to cancer.
The Anti-Empire Report #143
“The question thus facing “socialists” like Sanders is this: When all your idealistic visions for a more humane, more just, more equitable, and more rational society run head-first into the stone wall of the profit motive … which of the two gives way?”
The Promise (and Peril) of the New Populism
Populism can be dangerous when embraced by the right because it usually comes mixed with nativism.