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A Noxious Double Whammy
Here's the good news: President Barack Obama has committed to reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 17 percent by 2020. The bad news? A rise in fracking for natural gas could make the United States fail to keep this pledge. Unfortunately, a big...
Robin Hood in Reverse
One of the biggest questions of the day is: Why do the rich keep getting richer and the middle class keep getting poorer? This also ranks as the dumbest question of the day, week, month, or year. To anyone who's been paying attention, it's obvious why economic...
Taking Our Sweet Crude Time
After a quarter-century of buzz over global warming, the climate talkers are at it again, doing whatever it is they do. Visitors to the next big climate change summit, in an act of glorious irony, will pack Paris-bound jets flown by Air France — one of the meeting’s...
All Hacked Up
I've gotten a lot of unwelcome mail from the feds these last few years, like a copy of my indictment for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. But this latest delivery was something altogether new. My jaw dropped as I scanned the form letter from the...
Unhappy Meals
McDonald's is floundering. There's no other way to say it. The global fast food chain has experienced declining U.S. sales for well over a year now. But why? I'd love to gloat that Americans have finally caught on that the Golden Arches peddles terrible food, but that...
Dishing out Poverty Wages on Capitol Hill
In 2008 Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein declared: "There are parts of government that can be run like a business and should be run like a business." For the first time, the Senate had voted to privatize the restaurants and other food services on the Hill. Sure...
Pope in a China Shop
Nabbing Financial Felons
Big news from that razzle-dazzle place I call "El Casino Grande" — otherwise known as Wall Street. Four massive financial conglomerates — JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland — have been busted for engaging in a criminal conspiracy to...
In OtherWords: June 10, 2015
This week in OtherWords, John Kiriakou, Donald Kaul, and Khalil Bendib weigh in on the real crimes that are surfacing thanks to the legal woes disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert faces. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords?...
Tightening Whose Belt?
Listening to so-called fiscal conservatives like Representatives Kevin Brady and Mike Kelly, you’d think we were in a desperate fight for survival, with the national debt threatening our future. "I cannot in good conscience support adding more debt to the backs of our...
