Jan 23
By MIKE WHITNEY, reposted from Counterpunch by permission: JANUARY 15, 2015 Down the Plughole 40 Years of Economic Policy in One Chart by MIKE WHITNEY Growth of Real Hourly Compensation for Production/Nonsupervisory Workers and Productivity, 1948–2011 Is America in the throes of a class war? Look at the chart and decide for yourself. It’s all there …
Apr 02
Today’s decision in the McCutcheon case allows you and me to join the 650 individuals who felt frustrated at only being able to spend $123,200 for access to national politicians in the last election cycle. We maxed out donating to only 18 Congresspersons! Horrors! Thanks to the 5-4 Supreme Court majority in McCutcheon, we can …
Jul 26
Just returned from a short vacation and read, among all the other deplorable happenings, that the Administration sided with the Republican leadership in forcing up rates on student loans and in defending the NSA’s hoovering of private electronic data. (See New York Times July 25) This is not the “change” I voted for. This is …
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