Principled Progressive returns on Monday SCIENCE FINDS ANOTHER REASON WE SHOULD TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: MASS EXTINCTIONS OF EVEN “COMMON SPECIES” ACROSS THE GLOBE News that the Earth’s atmosphere is now more laden with carbon dioxide than probably at any other time in human history is further proof of the inexorable nature of [...]
THERE’S A SMALL CHANCE THAT FURTHER AUDIT OF THE VENEZUELAN ELECTION WILL OVERTURN THE RESULS OF THAT ELECTION. How small? One in 25,000 trillion, according to a statistical analysis of election boxes already audited, the likelihood that audits of the remainder could reverse the “populist” outcome that continues the policies of Hugo Chavez. So [...]
Deep and arbitrary spending cuts, part of the austerity measures hatched by Congress two years ago and known as sequestration, are beginning to take a severe toll on vulnerable Americans dependent on crucial government programs. President Obama has described the sequester as a “self-inflicted wound” on the economy that could lead to another recession. Uneducated [...]
HANDCUFFING KIDS FOR NO REASON. This is the allegation of two whistle-blowing police officers against the practices of the New York Police Department in a class action suit against the city charging racial profiling. They claim that their supervisors maintained quotas of the number of arrests and summonses they were expected to execute in [...]
GLOBAL WATER CRISIS GETS SCANT MEDIA OR POLITICAL ATTENTION…AND THAT CAN LITERALLY BE DEADLY. Long thought of as solely and environmental issue, access to clean water can no longer be stereotyped as the domain of “tree hugging” activists. With a shrinking supply, climate change and rampant pollution affecting this quite invaluable resource, water is [...]
An aggressive austerity agenda that has gripped Europe’s economy in a burgeoning malaise for nearly five years has come to an unexpected head in the tiny island nation of Cyprus. The latest fiscal catastrophe to develop across the pond has thrown global markets into turmoil and raised questions of how far Europeans are willing to [...]
HEY CHUCK, WELCOME TO AN AFGHAN DEBACLE. This is Bill Van Auken’s description of the first trip to Afghanistan of the newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel. To say that the inauguration of Hagel’s relations to his Afghan partner in the “war on terrorism” was inauspicious would be putting it much [...]
ARE ELDERLY AMERICANS THE “PICTURE OF AFFLUENCE?” Thatfflu is the picture drawn in a new Pew Research study of the “net worth” of American households. The average net worth of seniors of $170,500 seems “affluent” only by contrast with the almost non-existent amount of $ 3,700 for those under 35. With many older people now [...]
THEY GIVE OSCARS, DO THEY NOT, FOR FISCAL CHARADES LIKE THE ONE NOW PLAYING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.? If they did, Fix the Debt, the spectacular show produced by billionaire Pete Peterson, with a cast of dozens of fellow plutocrats, would be a shoo-in for an award. The lobby group that Peterson heads has already [...]
THE UNITED CASTES OF AMERICA. Upward economic mobility and the basic premise of the “American Dream” have been been eradicated, argues economist Joseph Stiglitz. Decades of regressive economic and social policies — policies wholly accepted and perpetuated by the current presidential administration — have severed a large and growing segment of the country from [...]
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