Bankster by Nancy OhanianIt's great when is reasonable and understanding when they ensnare someone for bending the rules, especially if-- the classic example-- it's a man who steals some milk to feed his staving baby or a loaf of bread for a starving family. Leniency may well be in order. But not from a tough conservative law-and-order regime. At least not for individuals.
I've been assured that Bernie and Elizabeth Warren will run as a presidential ticket in 2020. That would be a dream come true for me. But I don't know if it's really true-- although my source has never been wrong on anything she's told me before. Today she gave an important speech about the efficacy and importance of government regulations, particularly in financial protects. You can watch it above.Warren highlights one of the differences between conservatives and progressives. Progressives want to use government to protect people.
3 crooks: Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan flanked by Trumpanzee & MulvaneyThere was a bit of a stir over Wells Fargo yesterday morning, Trump's exceedingly and sour joke of a CFPB director, Mick Mulvaney, started it.
Last week, Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman, writing for In These Times reported on how Monsanto has captured the EPA (and twisted Science) for it's own corporate ends. Their concern is primarily health issues around glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide and the primary ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup.
NPR's Fresh Air has a fascinating piece on Wednesday that sought to shone some light on how the Trump Regime is accomplishing quite a bit while everyone is paying attention to the clown tripping all over himself in the center ring. The guest was NY Times journalist Eric Lipton and he's been reporting on how the Trump Regime has brought in lobbyists to help destroy the regulations that have protected the public from the very industries that those lobbyists were working for-- and no doubt will again.
Breaking Point, by K.M. Ramich-by Skip Kaltenheuser"The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones..." Updated, Shakespeare's Mark Anthony might have included mischief done while scrambling for campaign funds as the finance sector obliges those doing its bidding. That mischief stumbles on like a zombie.
by Jonathan Latham, PhD Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned ...
Saturday we asked if equal justice is ever possible with the kind of gigantic and growing economic inequality that disgraces America today.
Remember that horrific story-- about a decade back-- about cops in New Orleans shooting unarmed civilians running for their lives from the Hurricane Katrina flood waters? In 2007 5 white police officers were indicted for opening up with shotguns and AK-47s on two families of black people on the Danziger Bridge looking for shelter from the deadly storm.
Senator Bernie Sanders put a hold on President Barack Obama's nominee to take over the FDA on Tuesday.
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