A German chancellor touts austerity as the sovereign remedy for the worst global economic crisis in most people’s memory. Why? The great inflation of 1923 is still so seared into the consciousness of the German political class that keeping the stability of the currency is paramount. Therefore the decree goes out: wages, salaries, and pensions…
Meet the Welfare Queens of the 1%: The Moochers Mitt Missed Work for the Pentagon
Forget the laid-off workers, disabled veterans and elderly retirees. Pentagon contractors are far more dependent on taxpayers to pay their way than Mitt Romney’s fabled 47 percent; and rest assured, Mitt can count on their support. Mitt Romney’s recently-exposed statement disparaging nearly half of all Americans as hopelessly dependent on government may actually make a valid…
Paul Ryan — What He Said and What I Saw
The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits “atrocities” but that it attacks the concept of objective truth: it claims to control the past as well as the future. — George Orwell, “As I Please,” Tribune, February 4, 1944 We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. — Neil…
How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co. | Interview After a tremendous response to his commentary on Truthout, Mike Lofgren has released a new book, “The Party Is Over.” In it he explores what he calls the “company town” of Washington DC, where “the company’s products are politics and military hardware.” Receive a copy from Truthout with a minimum donation…
#GOPFuture: Tempt me back to the old GOP
Published August 28, 2012 Link to article The GOP should cease to be a pseudo-church and once again become a broad-based organization like the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. We have seen how the mixture of politics and religion debases both pursuits, turning the Republican Party into an apocalyptic sect that indulges birthers, candidates who talk about “Second Amendment remedies,”…
Who Is to Blame for Washington Gridlock?
Partisan primaries, cable news, and ‘political terrorism’ create a dysfunctional Congress By SHANNON MCGOVERN Published August 23, 2012 in US News Link to Interview Americans of all political leanings are increasingly frustrated with politics and an apparently dysfunctional Congress. In his book, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, Mike…
A Devil’s Dictionary
Here’s a new book based on an exclusive Truthout commentary that became a national media sensation. Inside the front cover, publisher Viking Press (Penguin) even mentions that this bombshell insider’s view of Capitol Hill began as a professional and personal confession that “was posted on Truthout and read by millions.” Receive a copy of Mike…