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Archives: Economy
Those 90 Companies that Caused Climate Crisis? They Should Pay for It
By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | - - The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are…
Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of…
AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels
By Todd Larsen | Otherwords.org | - - One text at a time, America's largest telecommunications companies are fueling climate change. Smartphones are a huge part of our lives. We use them…
Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You
By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | - - Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it.…
Why Climate Criminals like Exxon should pay for Hurricane Destruction
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - "It may take tens to hundreds of billions of dollars to support disaster relief and recovery among Gulf Coast communities affected…
Trump “presidency” as Ponzi Scheme: Madoff in the White House?
John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Here and abroad, Trump's wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade. In 1993, I arrived one fall evening in…
Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 1. The Christian Science Monitor says that in 2016, US solar businesses employed 260,077 workers – up 25 percent from 2015. 2. That…
Media Ignore Harvey’s Devastation of Working Class Communities
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - "Hurricanes don't care if you're rich, poor, white, or black—but that doesn't mean that every person is equally vulnerable to a…
Where Do “Alt-Right” Groups Get Their Money?
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "As white nationalists protest across the country, we wanted to know who's financially funding their hate. And there's more money in it than you…
Remember GOP in Texas opposing Aid for NY after Sandy? Now they want Aid
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - Ted Cruz, who voted against a relief package for states impacted by Hurricane Sandy, urged President Trump on Friday to quickly…
Germany’s Merkel: A Selfish & Isolationist America isn’t “Great Again”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In an interview with Handelsblatt , German Chancellor Angela Merkel took on Donald Trump's philosophy directly. She said that Trump's isolationism cannot make…
Bannon must go, but after that, Protesters should listen to Bernie
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Steve Bannon ran, and is still likely pulling the strings at, Breitbart, the "Stormfront" in a business suit with a skinny tie. Bannon…
As Trump leaves Paris Accord, Wind jobs are fastest growing in US next Decade
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - CBS News reports that jobs in the wind energy field will grow 108 percent in the next 7 years. Working on wind turbines,…
The Dragon Arrives: 1st Chinese overseas Military Base in Djibouti
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - China has just inaugurated its first military base abroad, in the tiny Red Sea country of Djibouti. Beijing has a long way to…
Unable To Kill Obamacare, Republicans Plot To Kill Medicare (TYT Video)
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | - - "Republicans want to privatize, cut, and eventually kill Medicare. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. "If House…
Trump’s Worst Collusion Isn’t With Russia — It’s With Corporations
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | - - The billionaires who backed Trump are making out a lot better than Putin. I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking…
Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It
By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | - - While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the commercial taxi system, it has hacked something…
Top 5 things Trump is doing to us Worse than insulting Mika
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Yes, Trump's gratuitous Twitter insult to newswoman Mika Brzezinski was horrible. But US cable news and even a lot of print news are…