Chuck Jones speaks truth to power-- calls out the liar-in-chiefYou remember Chuck Jones, the president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999 who fought to keep Carrier in Indiana long before Trump noisily inserted himself, ineffectively as it turns out, into the conflict.
U.S. industrial policy, as practiced (click to enlarge; source)by Gaius PubliusI was of two minds, Like a treeIn which there are two blackbirds. (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)Much of the debate around U.S.
by Gaius PubliusThe clip above is an interview Thom Hartmann did with Forbes writer and commentor Eamonn Fingleton, whom the headline touts as "The Man Who Predicted Trump," a true statement, by the way. That prediction came in February 2016, as noted at the start of the conversation in the clip. Here Fingleton and Hartmann discuss Trump, U.S.
Is TPP "just stunned" too. Not likely.by Gaius PubliusPerhaps you've been reading about the demise of TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership "trade" agreement. I put trade in quotes because that's what it's called, but that's not what it is.
On Thursday the NY Times ran a piece by Eric Lipton about what a bonanza a Trump administration is going to be for K Street lobbyists and other insiders he railed against during his fraudulent campaign.
Please start by watching Elizabeth Warren's speech (above) to the AFL-CIO she made a few hours ago.Yesterday, Bernie issued a statement on Trump's electoral college triumph over Clinton: "Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.
One of the many protests against the TTIP and CETA trade deals, this on in Berlinby Gaius PubliusIn our coverage recently of the European mass protests against the so-called "free trade" ag
