| Jun 18, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati and Jeff Vogel call on the NSA to follow the money, Jim Hightower chuckles over the NRA’s brush with sanity, and Richard J. Eskow explains why Eric Cantor’s defeat should be a teachable moment for Democrats. Do you...
| | Rights / DemocracyTalk about being kicked to the curb. A little-known, under-financed tea party challenger crushed seven-term Congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in an unusual primary loss. As Washington insiders struggled to make sense of the Virginia Republican’s...
| | Rights / DemocracyDavid Brat, the man who unexpectedly defeated Eric Cantor in a recent Republican primary, is an ideologue. That should be a source of encouragement for candidates on the populist left — but not for the reasons you might think. Brat is a professor whose college chair...
| | Rights / DemocracyBack in the 1950s, the U.S. military made the Marshall Islands the primary site for its nuclear weapons testing. As you might expect, those tests in the middle of the Pacific Ocean wreaked havoc on the environment and human health. In 1958, a Quaker-inspired voyage of...
| | Rights / DemocracyImagine we had a brazen and powerful gang stealing trillions of dollars from the American people. Then imagine that our law enforcement folks knew the identities of every one of that gang’s ringleaders. Wouldn’t it be great if the government of the United...
