Long-time activist Gar Alperovitz has an interesting article in The Nation about the emerging structure of "The New-Economy Movement.,...

The word on the street is that the situation in Greece may deteriorate to the point where a military coup might be an option.  Goodness know...

Progressives are holding a convention in downtown Minneapolis in the middle of June.  Those attending the Netroots Nation need only walk abo...

We have generally been highly critical of the Obama administration and its economic policies. However, below I link to an unique and very in...

As living standards for the Producing Classes stagnate (at best) or decline, it should be remembered that the forces causing these economic ...

The battle for Greece's income stream will not end anytime soon because so much is at stake.  On one hand, you have the the living stand...

Most people on the left in the U.S hailed Barack Obama's election as President as proof of the man's political genius. Here was an A...

Because the public face of the global energy companies is provided by some of the most wicked pirates to have walked the planet, it is easy ...

One of the things that really bothers me about folks who argue using Aristotelian logic is that they truly believe that if they can find a f...

In their 9.26.10 issue, Newsweek magazine discussed a theory of various economic regions and how well they performed.  At the top of their ...

The power of the masters of the universe (MOTU) has managed to withstand some serious battering of late.  Considering how often these folks ...

One of the questions that seems not to be asked about Dominique Strauss-Kahn is why such a pig gets to make life-and-death decisions about s...

Tip-o-the-hat to Avedon for picking this up from somewhere: Michael Moore at the Fairness and Accuracy in Media 25th anniversary conference...

One of the better ways to lose friends is to suggest some sort of energy solution to doesn't work as advertised.  So generally speaking,...

It seems like there are plenty of Spanish youth who want an 'Icelandic' outcome.  The war of the banksters against the rest of the p...

During the Internet bubble of the 1990s, I used to run business cable news in the background of my day just to listen to the irrational exub...

The recent shareholders meeting of J.P. Morgan Chase, one of the four largest banks in the U.S., and an alleged serial violator of mortgage ...

There is a widespread outbreak of schadenfreude over the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Unfortunately, he was arrested for assaulting a ...

(Note: This post of Tony's was lost a week ago in the big blogger crash.  I don't even want to think about the hassle that loses a p...

One of my favorite words that I rarely get to use is epistemology .  The term was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Fer...

The Chinese have begun final testing of their new 819-mile high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai. They have lowered the speed, t...