Working Life

   A few days ago, I took part in a meeting organized by the AFL-CIO to launch a new publication called "Exiting From The Crisis"–a roadmap for a new global economy. The main speaker at the small meeting was Joseph Stiglitz. He outlined some great points and realities about the economic crisis with the bottom […]

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   I’m about to dash off to a protest at the main postal office here in Manhattan for a Tax Day demonstration sponsored by US Uncut, the NY chapter of the Coffee Party and assorted other malcontents like me. In that spirit, I thought it worth leaving us with this list of the corporate tax […]

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   It’s hard to read about what has happened to Detroit. Now, this via The Wall Street Journal: A new state law has emboldened the Detroit mayor and schools chief to take a more aggressive stance toward public unions as the city leaders try to mop up hundreds of millions of dollars in red ink. […]

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  I’ve been asked by a number of people to respond to Arianna Huffington’s post about our lawsuit for justice for bloggers, which was filed on April 12th.    Let me deal with Ms. Huffington’s unhinged and disingenuous response quickly. It reeked mostly of fear. People who exploit others do so out of fear. Fear […]

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   Let’s get this one out of the way–of course I, and others, should support Obama’s re-election for one reason and one reason only: the Bush tax cuts. My guess is, looking at today’s landscape, which could change, that the Democrats lose the Senate and the House stays with the lunatics. For one reason and […]

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   Today, I have filed a class action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post and AOL on behalf of thousands of writer-bloggers. Here’s why. We live in a time of unrelenting class warfare. We are the richest nation on earth—yet that wealth is flowing into the hands of the few. The greatest stage for that […]

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   We keep repeating the same mistake–no matter how many times good progressive leaders, writers, thinkers and activists use the word "framing". And we are at it again–offering "better proposals" to address the debt-deficit "crisis". But, we should be saying something much different: there simply is NO debt or deficit "crisis".     As I write […]

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   It never ends. The robbery of the great wealth of the nation. The Audacity of Greed of the CEO class is never quenched. On Friday, I wrote about the huge pay increases sweeping through the CEO class in the financial community. It’s a cancer that is spreading again everywhere. Let me start with this […]

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   The answer is no, I’m not surprised. But, we must never lose the sense of outrage or simply shrug because "it’s just the way it is". Never. The absolute Audacity of Greed has to be challenged every moment.    In the Financial Times today: Jamie Dimon underlined Wall Street’s return to health after the […]

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    Yesterday, I wrote about how much money Paul Ryan pockets from the insurance industry–and how the health care part of the industry was going to make out like bandits in the Ryan budget proposal. This is worth digging into a bit more because you can learn very quickly how the Ryan budget truly boils […]

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