by Dave McGill
This is no longer a sputtering recovery. It is an economy in a nosedive with jobs as its centerpiece. The dimensions of the new collapse are exploding the myths that have been spouted by the elitist economists who claim to represent the “conventional wisdom” of the day. Of course, nearly all these particular [...]

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by Dave McGill
Rove is back and it’s not good news for the Democrats as they look forward to the mid-term elections.

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by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
Yes, all politics is indeed local — at the same time it is national and international. The interconnections are more numerous and important these days.

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by Bernard Schaer
This evening some of us will meet locally to mark the 50th day of the seemingly uncontrollable Gulf oil disaster and to demand from our government to get serious about our dependency on oil. What has me confused though is this: While we demand from our government to get us off oil and [...]

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by Alan Grayson, Member of Congress, Florida
On May 30, 2010, at 10:06 a.m, the direct cost of occupying Iraq and Afghanistan will hit $1 trillion. And in a few weeks, the House of Representatives will be asked to vote for $33 billion of additional “emergency” supplemental spending to continue the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

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