After the Election: Is There Any Energy Left?In his book A People’s History of the United States, author-historian Howard Zinn warns that the electorate’s political energy required to achieve real democratic and economic reform gets absorbed and used up during elections. After election day, we’re too bored, tired, and broke to do anything.
Our latest national election started earlier, lasted longer, and cost read more.. The TVA Kingston Coal Sludge Failure: “Clean Coal” Gets a Black EyeThe sludge lagoon failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Kingston Fossil Plant raises serious questions about the future of “clean coal.”
On the morning of December 22, 2008, an earthen dam on a 40-acre sludge lagoon broke releasing 5.4 million cubic yards of wet sludge, covering about 300 acres of land, destroying 3 read more.. Song for a Winter’s NightA beautiful song from Gordon Lightfoot. Happy Holidays.
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Reid Hires Warren: Is Congress Outsourcing its Oversight?This past Thursday, NPR Fresh Air talk show host Terry Gross interviewed Elizabeth Warren, who was recently hired by Congress to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP). The COP is charged with making sure the $700 billion financial bailout package is spent in the taxpayers’ interest.
Many of us who write on economic and political read more.. Saturday Blues: The Great Ronnie Earl and the BroadcastersRonnie Earl live in Boston
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Crime and Excrement
The April 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine quoted an estimate that 144,000 New York City pigeons are illegally trapped and sold each year to shooting clubs. The article also cited data indicating that pigeons, on average, generate 26 pounds of waste each year. Do the math and it’s clear that the outlaw trappers are read more.. Black Friday May SurpriseAmong retailers, the day after Thanksgiving is known as “Black Friday.” It’s the day that for so many businesses determines whether or not they finish the year with a profit, that is, “in the black,” or come up short “in the red.” The color terms harken back to the old days when bespectacled bookkeepers read more.. Re-Industrialize Now!
Financialization of the American Economy: Kevin Phillips on the Paula Gordon Show
Listening to the news, it seems like all banks, all the time. Why is this so? Is it because the economic planners in our government are bankers? Is it because they’re basically clueless with respect to building a sustainable, diversified economy for the 21st read more.. 11-22-63I was in the third grade at Slocum Elementary. Eight years old. A few years before, I remember my dad voted for Nixon because he thought old Joe Kennedy was a crook. My mom liked Kennedy, because he was Irish, he was good looking, he and Jackie had young kids and, like us, they were read more.. CTJ: Paulson & IRS Quietly Give Banks Huge Tax BreakIs Mr. Potter getting a big tax break to buy George Bailey’s Building & Loan?
The Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) report that a recent quiet ruling by the IRS gives away huge tax breaks to rich banks that buy other banks burdoned with bad loans. The tax breaks are in addition to the notorious $700 read more..
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