The Battle of Blair Mountain in Logan County, West Virginia, happened in 1921. Bobby Kennedy called it “the Gettysburg of the union movement.” The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the biggest civil uprisings in the United States history and the largest armed insurrection since the American Civil War. For five days in…
by Dylan Ratigan ” … these deals are often profitable because they constrain the public’s ability to govern, not because they are creating value.” “In Chicago, it’s the sale of parking meters to the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. In Indiana, it’s the sale of the northern toll road to a Spanish and Australian…
The question is not “Who is Bud Nip?” The question is “What is Bud Nip, and why shouldn’t you eat it?” Watch and learn!
Here San Francisco filmmaker Stephen Thomson uses the bitterly sarcastic words of Bill McKibben in his recent op-ed in the Washington Post, to show the connection between this year’s extreme weather events and human-caused climate change. His words are a scathing indictment of climate-change deniers.
Reprinted from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) under a Creative Commons License. by Dean Baker When the financial system was on the edge of melting down back in the fall of 2008, there was much talk in the punditocracy of a second Great Depression. The story was that we risked repeating…