Tag: economy
What are Erik Prince’s plans for the second Trump administration?
New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.
Trump may be blowing the economy up on purpose
Working-class Americans should view a purposefully engineered recession as blatant aggression by the ownership class.
Trump’s tariff chaos triggers global backlash, economic turmoil, and growing revolt...
Critics say president’s abrupt reversal on sweeping tariffs shows lack of coherent strategy and deepens damage to workers, consumers, and U.S. global standing.
This chart explains why Trump backflipped on tariffs. The economic damage...
The answer is simple: the economic cost to the U.S. was too high.
Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
OECD: Fighting climate change will boost global GDP—failing to act will...
Tackling the climate crisis will boost economic growth, while inaction could lead to ‘permanent recession’.
It’s time: Boycott America
Name-and-shame tactics don’t work with leaders who have no shame. Grab Trump by the wallet—it’s the only language he understands.
The end of US soft power?
Trump's effort to end U.S. foreign aid throws out a lot of babies with the bathwater.
The February 28 economic blackout
On Feb. 28 join the 24-hour boycott to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America.
Tribal lenders say they can charge over 600% interest. These states...
Online lenders tied to Native American tribes argue that they aren’t subject to state lending laws.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.