The Lineup: Week of Dec. 12-17, 2011

The Lineup: Week of Dec. 12-17, 2011

In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Sam Pizzigati lists the 10 greediest Americans of 2011 and Khalil Bendib’s cartoon illustrates how hard it is for Newt Gingrich to keep denying that he’s a lobbyist. Get all this and more in your inbox by...
The 10 Greediest Americans of 2011

The 10 Greediest Americans of 2011

You don’t have to make millions to rate as an all-star greedster. You do have to be ruthless, self-absorbed, and insensitive to others. Here’s my list of the 10 greediest Americans of 2011. 10. Michael T. Duke, Wal-Mart CEO Duke takes home his millions —...
Wealth is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

Wealth is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

The holiday season exerts a lot of pressure to spend what you don’t have and go deeper into debt in the name of “giving.” This year, let us all support each other to be financially responsible and engage in building wealth instead of destroying it....
Ratcheting up the Rhetoric on Iran

Ratcheting up the Rhetoric on Iran

Nothing is certain except for death and taxes. But in campaign season, it’s awfully predictable that Democratic politicians will do a little chest-thumping about foreign policy. As the 2012 presidential contest approaches, the Obama administration is ratcheting...
Occupy the Food System

Occupy the Food System

Farmers have been through this before — our lives and livelihoods falling under corporate control. It has been an ongoing process: consolidation of markets; consolidation of seed companies; an ever-widening gap between our costs of production and the prices we...