Going Broke Under Bush - Returning Vets Could Cost VA Close To $700 Billion...
More beans, another sampling of how we're all gonna go broke under Bush's multi-trillion dollar tab... Amy Goodman interviews Linda Bilmes, Havard professor whose study caused the VA and Pentagon to...
View ArticleHow's the Progressive Caucus Progressing?
By David SwansonSeventy-one members of Congress, all Democrats, most House Members, two Senators, belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus. For a couple of years now, the CPC has had a staff...
View ArticleHow the Bush Administration Is Turning the USA into a Subprime Borrower
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W BushMuch in the same way that US...
View ArticleNo Tax Rebate's Going to Fix This Mess
By Dave LindorffWhen you hear a number like $100 billion (the amount Bush is proposing to give back to people in the form of tax rebates, at about $800 per adult family member) or $145 billion (that...
View ArticleOil, Israel, Iran, America and the High Cost of a Single War-Like Remark
By Dave LindorffOne remark by a minor Israeli cabinet officer hinting at a possible US or Israeli attack on Iran has sent oil prices up by a record $11/barrel to a record $139 per barrel Friday. That...
View ArticlePaul Krugman and Blindness About the War and the Economy
By Dave Lindorff In a New York Times column on Monday (“Behind the Bush Bust”), economics columnist Paul Krugman mused on whether President George Bush could be blamed for the nation’s economic crisis....
View Article"No Blank Check" or "No %$#!*@ Check"
By David SwansonThe last time the Democrats all started bleating "No blank check - No blank check" it meant only one thing. They were signing a check and scribbling a bunch of nonsense in the memo...
View ArticleWhat Nobody's Saying: The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar
By Dave Lindorff What nobody in the corporate media is mentioning amid all the blather about the $700-billion Paulson bailout proposal is the impact it will have on the US dollar. We are told that this...
View ArticleCalling the Problem Early
By Dave Lindorff Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin tried to claim Thursday evening that their presidential-candidate runniing mates, Barack Obama and John McCain had been prescient about spotting the...
View ArticleTakin' It to City Halls and Statehouses, Not Just to the DC Streets
By Dave Lindorff One impact of this deepening recession which is largely hidden because it is spread out and distributed across the land is a wave of budget crises swamping nearly every state...
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