July 07, 2005
: Another Argument Against Bankruptcy Bill - Bush Hates EntrepreneursI'm sure some people raised this argument, but this story highlights the fact that cutting off bankruptcy protection will... MORE...

June 02, 2005
: Bush Turning SEC Over to Wolves - Post-Enron, the Bush administration hated the new rules regulating corporate corruption and continually fought new laws to restrict corporate power... MORE...

March 20, 2005
: Privatizing Freedom of Information Laws - Hey, if Wal-Mart can be given control of the wording of any press release involving DOL investigations, why not let... MORE...

March 09, 2005
: Even Rightwing Thinks Bankruptcy Bill Stinks - Bipartisan prostration before credit card dollars even gains the ire of Glen Reynolds who true to conservative rhetoric on holding... MORE...

March 07, 2005
: Irony is Dead Department - No comment: "When the special interests push me around, I'll push back," Schwarzenegger said to cheers and applause from more... MORE...

February 08, 2005
: No Democracy in the "Ownership Society" - It's a seductive phrase, the "ownership society," but when we are talking about financial assets, the reality is that the... MORE...

February 07, 2005
: The Corporate Embrace of the GOP - Sam Rosenfeld at TAPPED speaks with alarm of the increasing coordination of lobbying by the Chamber of Commerce and other... MORE...

May 09, 2004
: Fleecing Grandma - Now for an evil of a different kind. Slot machines. Forget Hollywood. Forget computer games. Even forget porn. This is... MORE...

March 16, 2004
: Big Biz: Health Costs Down/Profits Up - Businesses announce a slashing of health care benefits. Sad you know, but those rising health care costs forced them to... MORE...

November 25, 2003
: Follow the Money - MORE...

November 17, 2003
: Spitzer on Bush's Regulation Failures - Read this op-ed by New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, whose office is essentially what passes for real regulation of... MORE...

November 06, 2003
: Amazing Cartoon Slam on Factory Farming - I'm not a vegetarian type, but this cartoon satire-propaganda against factory farming, the Meatrix is unbelievably well-done.... MORE...

July 11, 2003
: GOP Federalism Hypocrisy- Screwing Investors - With a name like the Securities Fraud Deterrence and Investor Restitution Act of 2003, given the Orwellian labelling of bills... MORE...

June 19, 2003
: Why Unions Have Trouble Organizing Workers - Kevin Drum at this CalPundit post asks why unions have so much trouble expanding, citing Wal-Mart as an example: Sure,... MORE...

April 07, 2003
: Punitive Punishment? Corporations v. the Poor - Today, the Supreme Court overturned a $145M punitive damage award against State Farm insurance, arguing: By a 6-3 vote, the... MORE...

April 04, 2003
: Water, Water Everywhere- for A Price - Well, we are already getting a taste of how the US plans the Occupation of Iraq. Not only do they... MORE...

March 21, 2003
: Iraq: It's Not Just About the Oil - Antiwar protesters who insist Iraq is just about oil are being simplistic. Pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the... MORE...

March 19, 2003
: IMF Admits No Proof It's Worth a Damn - Having demanded for decades that poor countries tear down controls on capital and shred help for the poor in order... MORE...

March 06, 2003
: Anti-Union Yale - How anti-union is Yale? Yale University is being rocked by its eighth strike since 1968, and Ron Altieri, an electrician... MORE...

March 03, 2003
: GOP Admits Massive Cuts in Social Programs - Okay, got a love this one. The GOP is arguing that the coming $300 billion plus deficits are no record,... MORE...

March 01, 2003
: China Deal: Perjury by Microsoft - When Microsoft agreed to show its source code to Chinese officials, it showed how empty the company's rhetoric has been... MORE...

February 20, 2003
: Bookseller Purges to Defy Patriot Act - Ignorance is freedom. Well, that seems to be the reality under the Patriot Act, where knowing what your customers read... MORE...

February 13, 2003
: The DLC, Not Sharpton is Danger for Dems - Rightwing columnist Robert Novak has breathlessly warned the Democrats (being the friend of progressivism that he is) that Democrats are... MORE...

February 02, 2003
: Creating Tax-Free Heirs - How's this for tax cut genius? Let's hand a tax cut to the wealthy that doesn't cut revenues during my... MORE...

January 28, 2003
: What is Murder- Mother's Addictions? - In my post on Al Sharpton and elaborated in my What is Murder? post, a number of commenters objected to... MORE...

January 24, 2003
: The Dumbest Argument Against Immigration - From FrontPage magazine comes the tired dumbest argument against immigration (one repeated at times on right and left), namely that:... MORE...

January 16, 2003
: M$oft Dividend- $38 million Gates tax cut - Microsoft announced its first ever dividend of 16 cents per share and a 2-for-1 stock split. For Bill Gates, who... MORE...
: Bush Misses Point on Medical Malpractice - Bush is ramping up the campaign to hit consumer rights around medical malpactice. I'd just revive what I said last... MORE...

January 15, 2003
: Supremes Give Disney a Win - In the hotly awaited (at least among techno-legal types) Eldred decision, the Supreme Court decided 7-2 that Congress was constitutionally... MORE...

January 13, 2003
: Labor Monday (1-13) - Over 100 unionists from across the country met to form U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) to promote antiwar... MORE...

January 07, 2003
: Airlines' New Anti-union Legislative Assault - The airline industry is looking for new laws to curtail the right of airline unions to strike, which falls under... MORE...
: Bush's Trick Rhetoric-- Dividends vs. Capital Gains - In announcing his plan to leave dividends untaxed, there was an additional argument by Bush for his plan: The president... MORE...

December 26, 2002
: Pharma Bribes & Corruption of Medicine - In October, Bush's Health and Human Services department actually proposed cracking down on bribes regularly offered by pharaceutical companies to... MORE...

December 23, 2002
: M$oft Loses in Court over Java - In a private antitrust decision, Microsoft was ordered to carry Java as part of its operating system, a major technology... MORE...
: Maybe McCain is Lurching Left - I've been skeptical (see here) of the whole McCain-turning-Democrat scenario and that's still unlikely, but this interview with the NY... MORE...

December 22, 2002
: US Blocks Cheap Drugs Deal - Dick Cheney just helped assure the mass death of disease sufferers throughout the developing world. Despite threats that failure to... MORE...
: Follow Frist's Money & Voting - Newsweek has an interview with Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity who notes the suspiciousness of the timing... MORE...

December 20, 2002
: Does Social Security Screw Blacks? - One propaganda line of the social security privatizers is that, since african americans don't live as long as whites, they... MORE...
: Frist's Rightwing Voting Record - With the announcement that Bill Frist's challenge to Lott is gaining momentum, it's worth looking at Frist's record. And it's... MORE...

December 16, 2002
: Labor Monday (12-16) - Labor Antiwar Statement Roundup: When the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest public employees union... MORE...

December 15, 2002
: Starving MTA of Public Funds - For all the ire of NYC subway riders being aimed at the transit union for possibly driving greater fare hikes... MORE...

December 12, 2002
: Union Bashing & NY Transit Strike - Jane Galt is joining in what will no doubt be an outpouring at the horrors of unionism if the transit... MORE...
: When Free Trade is Imperialism - In talk about the Gulf War, words like imperialism get thrown around a bit much for my taste, since it's... MORE...
: Punitive Damages and National Regulation - In a blockbuster case, the Supreme Court is deciding whether to rewrite the civil court systems of all fifty states--... MORE...

December 09, 2002
: Snow's CSX Tax Freeloader - Citizens for Tax Justice has a press release noting that CSX: In three of the past four years, Snow’s company,... MORE...

December 06, 2002
: United Airlines & Bush Anti-Worker Assault - Why is United Airlines careening towards bankrupcty? In the wake of 911, all manner of industry has been bailed out,... MORE...

December 04, 2002
: Sam H Response on Judicial Review - Sam Heldman jumps in on his site to argue that judicial activism does not have the problems for progressives that... MORE...

November 27, 2002
: DOJ Wants Autism Vaccine Info Secret - The DOJ is asking a court to seal all information about a vaccine with high levels of mercury that parents... MORE...

November 19, 2002
: Bush the Liar, Clinton the Honest - Joe Conason in today's Salon pounds Bush for pretending not to be driven by polls while, as documented by Bob... MORE...

November 13, 2002
: Fight the Right: The Commonweal Institute - Seeing The Forest has an extensive post on the goals of the Commonweal Institute, an organization aspiring to be the... MORE...

November 12, 2002
: Democrats- Too Liberal, Not Progressive Enough - Conservatives are circulating a poll that the majority of Democrats think the party is too "liberal." Funny thing is that... MORE...
: Economist on Microsoft Trial - I haven't written anything since the court upheld the weak-ass Justice Department settlement with Microsoft, partly because I have written... MORE...

November 11, 2002
: Labor Monday (11-11) - The AFL-CIO condemned both parties for failing to present clear plans to restore the economy. 72% of union members... MORE...

November 08, 2002
: Why Productivity Gains are a Bad Sign - Many economists are marvelling that productivity, how much is produced per worker per hour, is increasing in a recession. Usually... MORE...
: WalMart- Corporate Criminal - As this story on Wal-Mart details, when we talk about coporate criminals, we should not just talk about those that... MORE...

November 06, 2002
: Little Chips, Big Pollution - Most people think of the microchip as embodying a post-industrial technology, the clean science of cappucino-drinking white collar workers. Yet... MORE...
: GOP Victories Power Defense Stocks - That's the headline from Reuters. Along with the body phrase that "The pharmaceuticals sector, which is also seen as a... MORE...

November 05, 2002
: Webster- Ripping off Teamster Members - "Judge Webster" is about to suffer the worst fate of a "respected Washington insider"-- actually having what such insiders do... MORE...

October 29, 2002
: Do GOP Presidents Expand Govt? - P.L.A. has some compelling numbers on how, against conventional wisdom, the number of government employees expanded more under GOP Presidents... MORE...

October 28, 2002
: Lula Wins - I've been away travelling for days, so there are many extraordinatry events to note-- the tragedy of Wellstone's death, the... MORE...

October 23, 2002
: Why Big Donors Represent Little People - Opensecrets.org, the admirable archive of campaign finance research, has released a report on the biggest donors over the last decade... MORE...

October 21, 2002
: Labor Monday 10-21 - On the Docks: Beating employers to the punch of filing their own charge, the dockworkers have filed a charge... MORE...

October 19, 2002
: Unbelievable! Bush Wants SEC Funding Cut - Once again, Bush is using "security needs" to justify protecting his corporate buddies. Now he wants a 27% cut in... MORE...

October 16, 2002
: Enviro Wed, 10-16 - Roundup of environmental stories, Oct. 16, 2002 An independent auditing group set up by Congress has found that the Bureau... MORE...

October 15, 2002
: Bush Fav Union Leader Could be Indicted - A group of top union leaders caught up in insider trading scandal? You'd think the Bush administration and the GOP... MORE...

October 14, 2002
: Labor Monday 10-14 - Roundup of Stories, October 14, 2002 Special On the Docks Section The dockworkers are back on the job, but the... MORE...

October 11, 2002
: Tapped Goes Nativist (sorta) - I have to admit to being both perplexed and dismayed by this response by Tapped (scroll down) to my recent... MORE...

October 09, 2002
: Enviro Wednesday (10-9) - Roundup of environmental stories, October 9 Send a "Dirty Dozen" e-card alerting friends to the worst polluters in Congress. Check... MORE...

October 08, 2002
: More on Taft-Hartley - Sam Heldman asks that I clarify why the ILWU and labor opposes an injunction ending the lock-out, when it is... MORE...
: Bush Declares War on Labor - Bush is officially seeking a Taft-Hartley injunction in the dockworker lockout. Update: It turns out that Bush's own mediator had... MORE...

September 23, 2002
: Labor Monday (9-23) - Roundup of Labor stories, Sept. 23rd- For the German unions view on yesterday's election, see this interview with the head... MORE...

September 10, 2002
: Haliburton Raids Employee Pensions - One more example of Halliburton malfeasance-- when it acquired a company called Dresser-Rand, it raided the pension fund then spun... MORE...

September 09, 2002
: Labor Monday (9-9) - Roundup of labor stories on August 9th Here is the AFL-CIO's Honor Roll of union victims of the 911 attacks.... MORE...

September 02, 2002
: Labor Day Monday - A special roundup of Labor Day "deepthink" articles, ongoing news, and resources for folks wanting to find out more about... MORE...

August 29, 2002
: Silliness of Right Economists on "Choice" - Probably in no other area are conservative economists so willfully ignorant (or disingenuous) than in dealing with the dilemma of... MORE...
: White Worship as Tolerance? - The NY Times has this story on how half-white Thais now dominate that country's fashion industry: Increasingly, the round face,... MORE...

August 25, 2002
: Malpractice Crisis from Health Care Inequality - The Times today deals with the crisis for many hospitals from soaring malpractice insurance rates. This can be framed as... MORE...

August 19, 2002
: Labor Monday (8-19) - Roundup of labor stories, August 19th New York City Firefighters and Police Officers rallied to protest the pathetic pay they... MORE...

August 12, 2002
: Labor Monday (8-12) - West coast longshore workers are protesting Bush administration threats to intervene in contract negotiations to prevent a strike, thereby... MORE...

August 10, 2002
: Open Source Weapon: CA Law? - Open source advocates are planning to introduce a new legislative proposal in California, the "Digital Software Security Act," that would... MORE...

August 08, 2002
: CA Power Board Defies FERC - Well, the new power grid board in California has officially voted to ignore the Bush federal energy regulators (the FERC)... MORE...

August 07, 2002
: Enviro Wed. (8-7) - Roundup on the environment, Aug 7 The Sierra Club and other environmental groups have dismissed Bush's "Clean Skies" plan as... MORE...

August 06, 2002
: Tech Tuesday (8-6) - HP uses copyright law to suppress research exposing flaws in its software's computer security. This is the chilling endproduct... MORE...

August 05, 2002
: Doom-Gloom from Stanley Roach - More sobering analysis from Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach on why we shouldn't expect a quick recovery. He argues that most... MORE...
: Labor Monday (8-5) - Roundup of labor stories August 5 The big labor story this week was the AFL-CIO taking protests to the heart... MORE...

August 02, 2002
: More States Blast Bush Power Grab - Update: Regulators from fifteen states have attacked Bush's plan to have federal regulators take over the nation's power grid and... MORE...
: Rightwing Watch (8-2) - Weekly roundup, August 2 Found the source for yesterday's Washington Times' screed against "union corruption." Not surprisingly, its from the... MORE...

August 01, 2002
: So Will GOP Disown Simon? - Oooh-- that's gotta hurt. You're running for governor of the most populous state in the country and a jury convicts... MORE...
: Right Tries "Labor Corruption" ploy - As conservatives flail around for something to divert public attention from the corrupt corporate looting of the country, it was... MORE...
: Dow 36000 Uber Alles - You've got to kind of admire raw apologia for hubris, as the propounders of the Dow 36000 explain in today's... MORE...

July 30, 2002
: Krugman Nails Bush Lies - Usually Krugman's columns speak for themselves, but today's is too important to go without additional comment. First, the collapse of... MORE...
: Tech Tuesday (9-30) - Round up for July 30 One of the subtler censorship issues is the way web blocking software often censors far... MORE...
: Sleeper Maine Senate Race - One place the WorldCom-Enron meltdowns could really matter is Maine, where the Democratic challenger, Chellie Pingree, to Maine's Susan Collins... MORE...
: Bush Poll Drop Deeper than It Looks - A number of polls show Bush dropping into the 60s approval range. As I've noted, Zogby's polls, which had him... MORE...

July 29, 2002
: Where's Right on Paid Leave? - With strong approval by a legislative committee, the California state legislature will soon vote on mandating 12 weeks of paid... MORE...
: Why is Bush Lobbying for M$oft - Maybe it shouldn' be surprising after Ashcroft's sweetheart deal with Microsoft over antitrust issues, but now Bush's Ambassor to Peru... MORE...
: Labor Monday (7-29) - Roundup of labor stories, July 29 Take Action-- AFL-CIO has a new web page for you to send messages to... MORE...

July 26, 2002
: Competition Killed Telecoms - The Economist details the crash of the telecoms (may need password) and sums up the problem with a few basic... MORE...
: RightwingWatch Friday (7-26) - Roundup of doings on the Right - July 26 An Arizona anti-immigrant group is trying to get a church group... MORE...

July 24, 2002
: Enviro Wednesday (7-24) - Roundup on July 24 Citigroup's involvement with Enron is just part of its role in global environmental destruction, as outlined... MORE...

July 23, 2002
: Dot.Con: The Bubble Exposed - I've been reading John Cassidy's Dot.Com: The Greatest Story Ever Sold-- one of the more indispensable guides to what... MORE...
: Bush Seeks to Kill Fed Jobs - Dems and some DC-area Republicans are fighting Bush efforts to privatize federal jobs. As the business association comments in the... MORE...
: Tech Tuesday (7-23) - Roundup for July 23rd Activists from New Yorkers for Fair Use disrupted a Commerce Department meeting discussing the mandating of... MORE...

July 22, 2002
: Labor Monday (7-22) - Roundup for July 22 "New Labour" Tony Blair has lost key union supporters, as a staunch union leader ally of... MORE...

July 20, 2002
: Demoralization on the Right - David Brooks of the Weekly Standard highlights the real danger to the GOP in the recent corporate scandals. Poll numbers... MORE...
: Easements for Unused Patents? - The JPEG format for images is one of the most popular on the web. Until this week, the patent behind... MORE...
: Millions vs. Billions - Yesterday, "The Bush administration outlined a $35 million plan today to help end chronic homelessness in the next decade". It... MORE...

July 19, 2002
: Neoliberalisms Bubble Bursts - A good article on the rising Latin Americans protest against neoliberal economics. The bubble of the 90s was accompanied in... MORE...

July 17, 2002
: Why I Don't Care About Harken - I've gotten email from liberal bloggers wondering why I'm not more outraged by Harken and at the lack of full... MORE...

July 16, 2002
: Wisdom from the Fed Oracle - Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before Congress (see testimony) and his main argument was that the fundamentals of the economy... MORE...
: Re-regulation of Cable Urged - As cable and telecom firms merge and consolidate their monopolies, legislators are beginning to advocate reregulation of cable rates. It's... MORE...
: Bush Wins Anti-Labor Court Decision - The D.C. Court of Appeals has backed a Bush executive order that bans state and local government projects receiving federal... MORE...
: 80% of Canadians Support Health System - Against the horror stories of the pharmaceutical industry and conservatives, a new survey shows 80% of Canadians are happy with... MORE...

July 15, 2002
: The Swing Voter Financial Crisis - Bush is running into deeply bad waters. Zogby is about to announce a 7 point drop in Bush job approval,... MORE...
: FCC Chair Invites Bells to Buy WorldCom - Michael Powell, chair of the FCC, indicated in a Wall Street Journal article that the Commission would look favorably on... MORE...
: Conservatives Upset w/GOP - One consequence of the Enron-WorldCom meltdown is demoralization on the Right, as Bush and other GOP leaders disown their previous... MORE...

July 14, 2002
: Media Bias Against Labor - One reason I have so much trouble taking the whole "media bias" against Clinton line seriously is that I read... MORE...

July 12, 2002
: Right Outraged at Dem Scandalmongering - National Review Online is shocked, shocked that Dems would use a front group to undermine a sitting President. The group... MORE...
: More on Bush and Media Bias - The whole issue of media bias is the meta-story of the Enron-WorldCom affair for many on the left. Will the... MORE...

July 11, 2002
: Media Bias for Bush? - I have nothing good to say about Bush, but I disagree with The Hauser Report's argument that Bush gets some... MORE...

July 10, 2002
: Bush Using Airline Loans vs Unions - Okay, it was bad enough that Bush's bailout of the airlines last fall did nothing to help laid off workers.... MORE...
: Pay Attention to Bolivia - Yesterday, Bolivia certified a leading opponent of US anti-drug policies and IMF economics in that country for the Presidenital runoff.... MORE...

July 09, 2002
: Unions as Corporate Watchdogs - While Enron's collapse will be terrible for all its workers, there are at least 1700 Enron employees who at least... MORE...
: Joe Conason Launches Daily Column - Over at Salon, lefty attack dog (and I mean that in a good way) Joe Conason's first daily web column... MORE...
: Exxon Suppresses anti-company logo - Exxon has won an injunction against Greenpeace barring their use of a campaign symbol, a defaced company logo with a... MORE...

July 08, 2002
: Lethal Corporate Coverups - A reminder that corporate greed gets more deadly than botched investment portfolios-- it can kill. It turns out that executives... MORE...

July 06, 2002
: AIDS Holocaust v. 911 - Leo comments "Why do you have to burden a perfectly sensible and right on target commentary on how the governments... MORE...

July 04, 2002
: MCI-WorldCom: The Cooked Books of Telecom Deregulation - [This is an op-ed based on my upcoming book, so check out the main sources here, here and here (this... MORE...

July 03, 2002
: Return ICANN to the Commerce Dept. - As I casually call for returning ICANN as a government agency, Martin Wisse asks the obvious question, "which government? US?... MORE...

July 02, 2002
: Polygon hails Dingell Demise - Larry Kestenbaum, as expert a political voice as exists in the blogosphere on Michigan politics, has a detailed autopsy on... MORE...
: Internet Privatization Goes Bad - I should have sympathy for the anguish over the anti-democratic policies of ICAAN, the nonprofit controller of domain names, but... MORE...

July 01, 2002
: Did Clinton Cause Enron/WorldCom? - Well, you can see the rightwing talking points in motion, as telepundits and rightwing scribblers now mouth the mantra-- Clinton's... MORE...
: Where's the Media Frenzy - A short blurb in the NY Post on the SEC investigation of Dick Cheney for possible illegal accounting practices at... MORE...

June 30, 2002
: Killing to Raise the Dow - How sick can you get? Larry Kudlow, former Reagan official, is now advocating that we start a war with Iraq... MORE...