After 75 years enshrined as one of the backbones of federal worker protection laws, Republicans in Congress want to eliminate overtime pay regulations in favor of extra time off under the guise of “flexibility.” Republicans have tried to fundamentally change the way workers that out extra time on the clock are treated for nearly two [...]
WHY DOES BARACK OBAMA HATE FDR? Despite facing slurs of “socialist” and “leftist” from his conservative opponents, President Obama is beginning to irritate fellow Democrats by seemingly turning against the party’s roots. In the same budget that guts Social Security, the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the president has proposed privatizing the Tennessee Valley [...]
President Obama’s proposed budget is causing all sorts of political commotion for including as its centerpiece a focus on reducing deficits that is based largely on sweeping cuts to Social Security. Crafted as a compromise to lure Republican support, the president’s proposals has instead inflamed progressives for targeting Americans who rely on safety net programs [...]
U.S NAVY PREPARES TO DEPLOY LASER “DEATH RAY” IN PERSIAN GULF After years of speculation that the Pentagon was working on a secret laser weapon project, euphemistically described as a “death ray” by observers, the Navy revealed the finished product this week. It’s a curious device that can shoot lethal laser rays at objects, [...]
VAMPIRE CAPITALISM ON THE PROWL FROM DETROIT TO ATLANTA. Bruce A. Dixon describes the process by which predatory “banksters” use their political clout to manufacture fiscal “crises” in Detroit and the Atlanta suburb of DeKalb County, to force political leaders to declare their elected governments in default, and impose bankster-profitable austerity and privatization measures. [...]
THE FACTS BE DAMNED, THE U.S. AND ISRAEL MAINTAIN THAT IRAN IS A MAJOR THREAT TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES. Numerous independent reports and even one by the U.S. Intelligence Agency have established that Iran is nowhere near a “red line” of nuclear development that could represent any kind of serious threat to other nations. [...]
“YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS IF YOU HAVE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT IN ADVANCE.” A Canadian professor warns northern countries that they must begin now to make “advance” plans about how to deal with species-threatening effects of climate change on Arctic polar bears. If they wait for the most drastic conditions to [...]
WHERE ARE SEATTLE KIDS GOING TO FIND A 38-FOOT HIGH DIVING PLATFORM WHEN THE “RAMPS TO NOWHERE” ARE TORN DOWN? Ramps connected to the Route 520 highway have been abandoned for 40 or more years when plans to make various connections to the road were dropped after citizen protests. One of these will [...]
THE ROAD TO ZERO WASTE MAY LEAD THROUGH THE FLANDERS REGION OF BELGIUM. By both citizen action and government enforcement, this Dutch-speaking section of Belgium is converting traditional Dutch cleanliness into a program of waste prevention and re-cycling through a multi-pronged movement to encourage source separation for garbage, massive private and corporate composting operations, [...]
Will a “grand bargain” to avert the ostensible calamity of going over the “fiscal cliff” forge a legislative accord on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans? Progressives are increasingly worried about President Obama’s use of Social Security as a bargaining chip with an increasingly rancorous Congress. Not much more than a month since Election Day, [...]
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