Last week, Obama along with Republicans and Democrats from Congress announced their new federal budget for 2011. It will cut more than $38 billion in social spending over the next year, and will be the largest one-year federal spending cut ever in US history. Before...
For most working people, we are living in what is the worst economic crisis of our lifetime. But for the banks and corporations and the super rich – times have never been better. Last year there was the highest profits of any financial quarter ever recorded in U.S....
On Friday March 11th, a major earthquake hit Japan’s east coast. The quake and the tsunami that followed together killed over 10,000 people. If this disaster weren’t devastating enough, it was followed by another man-made disaster which continues today....
Who’s supposed to pay for the $26.6 billion California budget deficit? According to the Democrats it will be poor families, children, disabled, and elderly people. On Thursday, Democrats on the California budget conference committee voted to accept many of...
All over the world change is in the air. It began with Tunisia when the population rose up and drove out Ben Ali their brutal dictator of over 23 years. It took them 28 days. The revolutionary wave quickly shifted to Egypt where it took the Egyptian people 18 days to...
