Posted on 19 August 2020. Tags: Elections, Garment Workers, Haiti, Lauren Stewart, Miles Rapoport
Voting in America, compared to many other countries, is not easy. That’s always been true. Donald Trump’s relentless effort to undermine the vote in November, in this case by crippling the postal service and trying to make it impossible for ballots to be counted on time, is surely corrupt. But, the undermining of the vote […]
Read the full story
Posted in Audio, Current Events, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 14 January 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, Bonuses, Greed, Haiti, Jamie Dimon, TARP, Taxes, Wall Street
The president is going to announce today a tax on the big banks and financial institutions: The tax on banks, insurance companies and brokerages with more than $50 billion in assets would start after June 30 and seek to collect $90 billion over 10 years, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters […]
Read the full story
Posted in General Interest
Posted on 14 January 2010. Tags: Banks, Greed, Haiti, Poverty, Wall Street
It’s a strange coincidence but there is a direct connection between the earthquake in Haiti and the spectacle of the financial elite testifying before the Commission-that-will-do-nothing about the mess they made. How did we get to where we are? We have lived in a system that allowed a tiny elite to rob the […]
Read the full story
Posted in General Interest