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When $1.5 Trillion Could Be Too Low, the Price Tag Is Too High
It's not yet clear exactly how much the Pentagon's fancy new F-35 combat jet will cost or when any of these stealth fighters will become operational. But the F-35 already shows great promise in the tough competition to become the most expensive weapons program ever...
Hooked on Apples
When it comes to solving big problems, I believe in reaching for the low-hanging fruit first. What's the easy stuff we can get out of the way before working on harder challenges? Right now, many of us can go for the low hanging-fruit in a very literal way: by visiting...
We’re All in This Together
Lolita Lledo spends all day talking on her cell phone, texting, and checking her Facebook page, though not for the reasons you might think. As the associate director of the Pilipino Workers Center in Los Angeles, she relies on social networking to keep in touch with...
Snooping on Everyone While the Big Box Thieves Get Busy
In a more innocent time not so long ago, perhaps only a million or so people in this country fell under the government's suspecting glare. Achieving that distinctively fat FBI file might have required marching against a war or traveling to leftist lands. These days,...
The Nouveau Sodbusters
We know from the childhood song that Old MacDonald had a farm. But e-i-e-i-o — look who's got his farm now. It's outfits like American Farmland, Farmland Partners, and BlackRock. These aren't dirt farmers wearing overalls and muddy boots. They're Wall Street hucksters...
Seeds of Greed
Let Them Eat Tips
Just when you thought the plutocratic profiteers running America's exploitative, low-wage economy couldn't get any more clueless, self-serving, pious, and mingy — along comes Lady Maria of Marriott, magnanimously saying: "Let them eat tips." Marriott International...
In OtherWords: September 24, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Marjorie E. Wood weighs in on how siphon-up economics is hurting us all and Chuck Collins and Lisa Renstrom explain why individual investors need to divest their oil, gas, and coal assets and invest in climate solutions. Do you want to make...
Make Your Investments Fuel Change
People around the world are pressing their leaders to act on climate change and fueling change on their own. With U.S. political leadership on climate policy in a shambles, many Americans are taking matters into their own hands. Nearly 400,000 people marched in New...
Corporate Tax Deserters
Corporations love to wrap themselves in the flag with sun-drenched TV commercials that proclaim a deep devotion to American workers and communities. But when it comes to actually taking responsibility for supporting the workers and communities that create the...
