Working Life

Things always seem to get more interesting for Rep. Bill “I Stashed $90,000 In My Freezer” Jefferson. Our man Bill, a member of the dishonored CAFTA 15 and now the Oman 22, was allegedly a bagman for a bribe to a Nigerian politician named Atiku Abubakar, the vice president of Nigeria. As The Washington Post […]

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To our previous dishonorable list of the CAFTA 15 we can now add the Oman 22–the 22 so-called Democrats who just voted for the so-called “free trade” agreement with Oman. Not surprisingly, there is a cross-over between the CAFTA 15 and the Oman 22, and I’ve noted the repeat traitors to the working people of […]

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I asked this a bit ago: why doesn’t some Democrat in Louisiana step forward to challenge CAFTA 15 Rep. William “I Store $90,000 in My Freezer” Jefferson? According to The Washington Post, “The biggest threat to Jefferson is an indictment before Aug. 11, the deadline for other Democrats to enter the race in a district […]

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It’s been the regular refrain that we hear from the Administration, pro-war Democrats and the talking heads in the press: just wait, the occupation of Iraq is turning the corner, just give it six more months, don’t worry… Yesterday, the United Nations released a report that concluded, according to The New York Times’ article: An […]

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There has been a lot of hand-wringing going on about the apparent demise of the so-called Doha round of world trade negotiations. Here, I’ve been hoping that the reports of the demise are, in fact, not a Mark Twain-like premature wish. But, buried in today’s New York Times story on the last-ditch effort to make […]

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There is enough blame to spread around if you want to find a villian in the most recent bloodletting in the Middle East. Part of the problem is that there is almost no debate in the U.S. about a more even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Here’s a voice from Israel that shows that, inside […]

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Here’s hoping that this election season takes out a few of the worst Republican operatives and leaders. Rick Santorum is a possible loser in his Senate race in Pennsylvania. Today, The New York Times has a piece about the possible demise of Ralph Reed. I think it’s particularly lovely to watch people like Reed, who […]

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Here’s a stunning example of the way in which corporations and rich people reaped huge windfalls in the wake of 9-11 even as people died. While ordinary people may have lost money in the post-9-11 decline of the stock market, executives made off like bandits. Kudos to The Wall Street Journal for this story, though […]

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[a publishing note: this post was actually posted–or so it appeared–two days ago. The server for my provide then wigged out and…well, you don’t care about the specifics]. So, I’m reposting it now] The brazen nature of corporate greed and abuse reeks out of every corner in our country. You can point to the obliteration […]

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This is such a goofy first couple of praragraphs in today’s New York Times story headlined “Fast Growth In Economy After 9/11.” : New York City’s economy bounced back after Sept. 11 with surprising speed and is much healthier now than its slow-growing job market indicates, according to a report released yesterday by the Federal […]

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