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An $18 trillion deception: Why The Washington Post editorial board should...
Fred Hiatt's Washington Post editorial board seems intrepid in its efforts to find new ways to embarrass itself. The title of its September 15 editorial on Bernie Sanders sets the tone:Bernie Sanders...
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Robert Reich takes down the Wall Street Journal's economic hit job on Bernie
One second there, Mr. Wall Street Journal, your tail is showing Robert Reich has a knack for breaking down common misconceptions and lies that have been spread by the right and "right-thinking"...
View ArticleEcon Professor cited by WSJ to smear Sanders Health Plan -- says They got it...
Who could forget the Socialist-splash that the Wall Street Journal made a few weeks ago, with their Bernie Sanders "critique"?Afterall, $15 Trillion (spread out over 10 years) sounds like a LOT of...
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More Free Stuff for Corporations
New scheme from CEOs and GOP: Workers should pay corporations Republicans and the rich guys who imposed on American workers 35 years of stagnant wages now offer a prescription for easing this...
View ArticleFiscal Myths of Campaign 2016: A New Kindle e-Book
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. There is virtual unanimity across the major political parties in the...
View ArticleDid WSJ Gin Up A Sanders Comment on Eghazi?
Following the Wall Street Journal's lead, BBB (who I think highly of to be sure) wrote a diary titled Sanders Wants Benghai Committee to continue witchhunt. The story is getting played that way in the...
View ArticleShould we expect accuracy from front page posters?
It's really a rhetorical question, because, indeed, we should expect accuracy from the front page crew. After all, they're being compensated to post here, and it is in kos' best interest as a business...
View ArticleCNN: Sanders has been "consistent" on HRC's emails
Dan Merica at CNN Politics wrote an article on a recent Wall Street Journal story that many other outlets are running with today: Bernie Sanders isn't changing his tune on Clinton emails.The comment...
View ArticleThe glory of our journalism: WSJ
Fox News (or as I call it, Faux News) is an example of what happens when Murdoch (and his factotum Roger Aisles) gain control of an enterprise.( Let us not forget that it was Aisles who stampeded the...
View ArticleThe Terrible Legacy of Unenforced Trade Laws
Over the past several weeks, as Alcoa and Century cut aluminum production nationwide, James Markus, a 23-year-veteran aluminum worker, acutely felt the pain of those laid off.That’s because just two...
View ArticleAs Predicted; GOP Establishment Doesn't Want Cruz
This is playing out totally as I predicted. When I read a Teh Fear of Cruz diary here, I point out the GOP establishment/smart money do not want him as their nominee. And I point out the smart money is...
View Article"Miracle of American Oil": Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogA document published by the Public Relations Society of America, discovered by DeSmog, reveals that from the onset of its public relations campaign, the oil industry courted...
View ArticleBig Oil Argued for U.S. Crude Exports to Fend Off Iran, But First Exporter...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogThe American Petroleum Institute (API) successfully lobbied for an end to the 40-year ban on exporting U.S.-produced crude oil in part by making a geopolitical argument:...
View ArticleRep. Conyers unmasked H. R. 2834 —Judiciary Committee passed by the Yeas...
John Conyers Jr. [MI-13th, Judiciary Ranking Member] who rescued the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks, did a splendid job sounding the alarm on H. R. 2834 —(its current title): To...
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Wall Street Journal frets that Republican obstruction on Supreme Court might...
The Wall Street Journal appears to be a little worried about the Republican party's prospects for keeping the Senate, now that they've basically gone nuclear on obstruction. Not even meeting with a...
View Article"Donald Trump, meet your customers"
I have a profound respect for a man who can read 26,000 user reviews of Trump products. Joseph Rago decided tolet the people speak (or try this link) and find out what Trump’s “goods” are like in the...
View Article3/23/16 ~ Today's TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday is Cuddly Kitten DayNational Chip and Dip DayNational Melba Toast DayNational Puppy DayNear Miss DayOK DayWorld Meteorological Day“FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!”On...
View ArticleDefending The Right To Deceive The Public
With a third piece on it this month, The Wall Street Journal seems to be in full damage-control mode after news broke that the FBI is starting investigations into what #ExxonKnew. It seems to have...
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If Only: WSJ Says Obama Is Six Months Away From Destroying The Republican Party
The Wall Street Journal just published an editorial that might have been dismissed as an April Fool's joke, except that it was published on March 30. It is the sort of delusional crackpottery to which...
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Veterans STILL Getting Shafted By Phony Donald Trump Benefit
A couple of months ago Donald Trump put together a campaign stunt aimed at distracting the media and the public from his cowardly refusal to face Megyn Kelly in a Republican primary debate hosted by...
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