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Veterans, the Human Rubble of Our Wars
Not long ago President Barack Obama, with great fanfare, presented a Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a living hero. Presidents don’t often get to do that. Normally the recipients are dead. This one appeared to be a 100 percent all-American boy, and no doubt this set off a new surge of patriotic young men zipping to their recruiters.
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 10-16, 2011
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Sarah Anderson and Chuck Collins explain why Congress shouldn’t give a tax break to corporations that hoard profits in overseas tax havens. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
Job Destroyers Don’t Deserve a Tax Holiday
A coalition of big businesses is waging a campaign for a massive tax holiday on corporate profits stashed overseas. Its lobbyists claim that this windfall would create millions of jobs. If our lawmakers buy that, they’ve got very short memories.
How to Achieve Transparency for the Supercommittee
Come December, the priorities and role of our government could be drastically and fundamentally altered. Are your views and concerns being heard?
Mitt Romney Believes in Corporate America
At an Iowa campaign stop in August, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a startling assertion. Asked about his refusal to raise taxes on corporations while millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet, he replied, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
Military Spending Belongs on the Table
The battle over the debt ceiling laid bare the need to cut the deficit while foreshadowing a fierce fight in Congress to make actual budget cuts.
Gridlock and Bedlam
My friend Richard is a little crazy and very smart. He spends his days filling the Internet with screeds and rants on his favorite subject — the continuing collapse of our society. I’d tell you his last name, but if you wrote him, you’d get his scary emails too.
Big Oil: $135 Million — School Children: 0
When is it not enough to have too much? Apparently, when you’re a giant oil corporation.
Big Oil’s avaricious honchos are always searching for another dime they can slip into their corporate pockets, no matter whom it hurts. A crude example of their ceaseless money grab is presently unfolding in Texas.
Dr. National and Mr. Transnational
