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Obama vs. Ryan: Who’s Winning the Deficit Debate?

Obama vs. Ryan: Who’s Winning the Deficit Debate? Obama vs. Ryan: Who’s Winning the Deficit Debate?

Democrat strategists say that the deficit fight is good for Obama. But by conceding that debt is the biggest problem facing the country, the president is undermining the case for t...

Apr 19, 2011 / Ari Berman

BP’s Oil Spill Tax Credit Matches the EPA’s Entire Annual Budget

BP’s Oil Spill Tax Credit Matches the EPA’s Entire Annual Budget BP’s Oil Spill Tax Credit Matches the EPA’s Entire Annual Budget

Environmental groups and US Uncut rally in Washington to demand that President Obama stand up to Big Polluters like BP and start making them pay their fair share. 

Apr 19, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny

Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality

Today is Tax Day in the US, and that's almost universally greeted with groans and complaints. That tax word's been so effectively demonized that it may be there's no coming b...

Apr 18, 2011 / Laura Flanders

Republican Run-ins Republican Run-ins

Name Game: GOP edition

Apr 18, 2011 / Leslie Savan

Bay of Pigs, 50 Years Later: The Lessons Kennedy Never Learned Bay of Pigs, 50 Years Later: The Lessons Kennedy Never Learned

JFK failed to defeat Fidel; then he needed to prove his “toughness” somewhere else.

Apr 18, 2011 / Jon Wiener

MSM Mirrors GOP’s Line on Paul Ryan’s Medicare-Killing Budget Plan: Don’t Hurt His Feelings! MSM Mirrors GOP’s Line on Paul Ryan’s Medicare-Killing Budget Plan: Don’t Hurt His Feelings!

Even the non-Fox mainstream media is reporting more on Obama’s criticism of Ryan than on what Ryan’s plan would do to the poor and middle-class.

Apr 18, 2011 / Leslie Savan

For Tax Day, US Uncut Asks Americans to Hold Corporate Tax Dodgers Accountable For Tax Day, US Uncut Asks Americans to Hold Corporate Tax Dodgers Accountable

US Uncut wants Americans to hold corporate tax dodgers accountable. While corporations count their hoarded tax revenue, police lose their jobs and homeless citizens sleep in tents.

Apr 18, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny

GOP Spreads Corporate Tax Disinformation, America Fights Back GOP Spreads Corporate Tax Disinformation, America Fights Back

As the GOP continues to spread the lie that corporations pay too much, Americans are beginning to fight back against two-tier America.

Apr 17, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny

Chris Hedges: Obama Defies Core Values of Liberal Tradition Chris Hedges: Obama Defies Core Values of Liberal Tradition

Protesters gathered in New York City today to demand corporate accountability, an end to foreclosures and that corporations pay their fair share in taxes.

Apr 15, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny

Time for Obama to Join the Fight Time for Obama to Join the Fight

Obama’s punching below his weight class again. That was Gary Younge’s metaphor, a boxing analogy that makes more sense if you consider the weight a politician carri...

Apr 14, 2011 / Laura Flanders

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