The number that sticks in my mind today, and has since I heard it, is 40 percent. While over half a million people in the U.S. have died of COVID in one year, while millions of people have become sick, while millions of people have lost their jobs, savings and homes, and many people […]
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Episode 216: Wealth Tax On The Table; Two Trillion for The Global Poor; Joe Biden and Union Organizing
Posted on 03 March 2021.
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Episode 142: How Would Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Work?; Nepalese Women Fight For Equal Pay in Construction
Posted on 07 August 2019.
Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for a wealth tax in the country is a potential game-changer. It would apply only to households with a net worth of $50 million or more—roughly the wealthiest 75,000 households, or the top 0.1%. those super rich would pay an annual 2% tax on every dollar of net worth above $50 million […]
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Episode 140: Stopping Wall Street Looting; Airline Catering Workers Demand Fair Pay; What Went Down In The Minimum Wage Bill?
Posted on 23 July 2019.
I like the ring of The Stop Wall Street Looting Act, don’t you? True, it’s part of the business model of the joint, especially the private equity pirates. The Act is, in fact, aimed squarely at the private equity industry, who have stripped and destroyed hundreds of companies. I’ll talk about the Act with the […]
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Episode 133: Elizabeth Warren Speaks!; Tefere Talks Union & AFL-CIO Politics; Tax Ideas For The People!
Posted on 05 June 2019.
I just returned from the great city of San Francisco which hosted the state Democratic Party Convention. And in my audio bag are most of the speeches of the Democratic presidential candidates who gave their pitches to the delegates—California, with a much earlier primary than usual, will potentially have a decisive say about who will […]
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Episode 117: The Bezos-Style Greed Is On Fire!; Tunisian Workers Revolt
Posted on 30 January 2019.
The rich are living the creed of the 1987 film “Wall Street”: Greed is good! Consider this: 26 billionaires now have a collective wealth of $1.4 trillion—equal to the wealth of the bottom 3.8 billion people on the planet. That’s just a smidgen of the immorality I discuss with Oxfam America’s Paul O’Brien, whose organization […]
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TPP: Insider Says Elizabeth Warren (& Bernie Sanders) Right On Secrecy And How Bad The Deal Is
Posted on 19 May 2015.
From inside the belly of the beast on trade comes an illuminating view on the secrecy around the Trans Pacific Partnership. From an insider. Who knows. And he says: Sens. Warren and Sanders, and a whole host of others, are right on the mark about the secrecy.
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On TPP, Warren Shows Backbone, Fires Back At Obama; Watch Bernie Sanders, Too
Posted on 22 April 2015.
Good for Elizabeth Warren. In a respectful but “I’m not backing down manner,” she’s firing back at the president’s nonsense about TPP. And in her own words on her blog. Take this truth: The Administration says I’m wrong – that there’s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are […]
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Elizabeth Warren Opposing TPP, Because Deal Would “gut U.S. regulations”
Posted on 27 February 2015.
Good to see Elizabeth Warren taking on the Trans Pacific Partnership. Aside from her terrific leadership opposing Wall Street, her views on some other issues (for example, her fairly mainstream blindly pro-Israel views) have been less clearly progressive. But kudos on this.
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Wall Street Banker Pulls Out, In Victory For Sen. Warren
Posted on 13 January 2015.
Ok one victory for the good guys…
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Warren/Manchin: “The Fed Needs Governors Who Aren’t Wall Street Insiders” But They Miss Key Point
Posted on 18 November 2014.
Well, duh…
It’s good to see this demand by both Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin. But, there’s an important point missing.
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