The Defense Industry Threatens America’s Economy

| | Peace / SecurityWeapons are Our biggest threat; For falling deeper Into debt. India has the military-industrial complex all figured out. So does Saudi Arabia. Neither of them has one. Who needs to build weapons when you can simply buy them at a discount elsewhere? Not that anyone...

Budgeting for the Great American Train Wreck

| Aug 1, 2011 | Economy / BusinessIt’s Aug. 1, 2011. Does President Barack Obama know where House votes for that last-minute budget deal are? The pact he forged primarily with Republican leadership in Congress after months of wrangling is no compromise. The GOP got just about all the cuts it...
The Lineup: Week of Aug. 1-7, 2011

The Lineup: Week of Aug. 1-7, 2011

| | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Donald Kaul underscores the GOP’s intransigence over raising the debt ceiling, Jim Hightower lambastes Wisconsin’s Racine County’s decision to get prison laborers to do some jobs previously handled...
Murdoch Gets Caught Red-Handed

Murdoch Gets Caught Red-Handed

| | Rights / DemocracyRupert Murdoch, the Australia-born media tycoon, finally got his you-know-what caught in the wringer. Murdoch’s unethical newspapers hacked thousands of private phone messages, including those of actors Hugh Grant and Jude Law, as well as Prince William and...