As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation last week, politicians in D.C. flipped the bird at protesters – including those camping in Washington’s McPherson Square. Here’s how: While occupiers sought political focus on the unemployment, impoverishment and foreclosures suffered by the nation’s non-rich...
Given what’s been going on in the United States since the bank bailout, it’s amazing that Occupy Wall Street didn’t precede the Arab Spring. The powers-that-be, from the rich to their coin-operated politicians, have mocked and belittled and ignored the protesters, the 99 percenters as...
America is being played. The U.S. allowed China to join the club of trading partners in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 under the condition that China observe club rules. Over the past decade, however, China has profited immeasurably by ignoring, flouting and circumventing the rules...
A long time ago, in an historical America, lawmakers determined a progressive tax code to be the fairest and most logical for all. The legislators asked more of those who had benefitted most from the advantages America provides. They asked less of those who benefitted least. As...
Labor Day: Build Esprit de Corps for Action Celebrate Labor Day. Really, celebrate. It’s important. Wear a t-shirt announcing to the world the name of your union and march in a parade, chanting and whooping it up about how glad you are to belong to an organization...
Pittsburgh, PA—(ENEWSPF)—July 26, 2011. Leslie Marshall, host of the The Leslie Marshall Show, talks with United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard about Republican representation, deficits and tax cuts. Read the rest of the story here...
Right-wing pundits attack Obama for Brazil trip A brigade of conservative critics, led by Fox News, accuses the president of taking a "vacation" during crisis President Obama is in Brazil this weekend as part of a five-day tour through South America. While the focus of the trip...
It was 6:30am and the phone rang. I live in Los Angeles, and a lot of what I do is based on the east coast, or at least the midwest: my agent, my publicist, my webmaster, the Fox News television producers ( for whom I'm...
The Big Story: NPR's CEO forced out with federal funding in doubt By Mike Hashimoto/ Editor Thu., Mar. 10, 2011 James O'Keefe , most famous (or infamous) for his video takedown of ACORN, may have landed an even more prominent scalp in National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller....
Wow! linking gambling with prostitution. Without condoms, prostitution is the bigger gamble! I have always grappled with the issue of prostitution. As a feminist, I believe a woman has the right to use her body if she chooses, as she chooses; including selling it for sex....