by Stephen Lendman
On Wall Street, that is. So hyped by advance fanfare, Timothy Geithner unveiled his Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) on March 23, the latest in a growing alphabet soup of handouts topping $12.5 trillion and counting – so much in so many forms, in “gov-speak” language, with so many changing and moving parts, it’s [...]

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by Jane Anne Morris [1]
[Note: This is second of two articles that explore strategies for going beyond the usual calls for "corporate accountability." (Part 1 appeared here) The author is part of a movement, already taking root in over a dozen states, that advocates retaking the historic right of the sovereign people to determine and [...]

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by Dave McGill
No matter what your political affiliation is, you are likely to see both good and bad in President Obama’s newly announced plans for Afghanistan.  However, somewhat hidden below the attention being given to the projected costs in terms of both U.S. dollars and U.S. lives, is the emergence of a significant new element [...]

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by Craig Morris
While Germany empowers citizens, the US protects corporations.
If you live in the US, do your power provider a favor: spend $20,000 putting solar panels on your roof. Then your poor utility will not have to buy so much power on the expensive spot market. Your utility may even thank you by taking some [...]

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A few days ago I posted the article “HELP! I’VE BEEN COLONIZED AND CAN’T GET UP….” by Jane Anne Morris in which she talks about all the little, certainly important battles we progressives fight. How we love to describe the problems facing us to one another in great detail, sometimes use role play, and in [...]

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