Celebrating the Flash Crash with a Wall Street Sales Tax
As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Flash Crash, we can also celebrate a possible policy that will take mostly from the rich and raise a huge amount of money by raising the cost of financial transactions.
VIDEO: #9 Make Polluters Pay Us
We can clean our environment and strengthen the economy if we start charging polluters for poisoning our skies. It's time we stop investing in dirty fuels.
Only nonviolent resistance will destroy corporate state
While refusing to be baited into violent confrontations with the radical right, we must also be vigorous in using militant, nonviolent tactics to block hate speech.
2019 in review: Endless Trump and the rise of radical environmental action
In terms of raising awareness, despite powerful people from the U.S. president on down denying its reality, more and more people throughout the world are taking action to force their governments to confront it.
Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky on big bailouts
"The big financial institutions who were– obviously the biggest winners of the last bailout– they’re gonna win again. They always win. That’s kinda the way our system is organized."
Exploring the mindsets of typical, fanatical Trump supporters: Part 3
This kind of subservient attitude and blind loyalty is unbelievable, beyond comprehension, it’s as if these Trumpsters may have been mind-conditioned.
Bernie and the Big Banks
The bottom line: Regulation won’t end the Street’s abuses. The Street has too much firepower. And because it continues to be a major source of campaign funding, no set of regulations will be tough enough.
Why Bernie Will, Should and Must Stay in the Race
Bernie has substantively — even profoundly — changed American politics for the better.
Donald Trump Disrobed (It Isn’t Pretty…)
Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.
A Public Note to my Friend, Bernie Sanders
"We will not succumb to cynicism. We are in it for the long haul. We will never give up."