Trump Claims His Mob That Attacked Capitol Was “Well Behaved”
Former President Donald Trump attempted to characterize the participants in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as “well-behaved” ahead of the fourth day of public hearings on the day’s events. Trump made the remarks in an interview NewsmaxThis week, earlier claimed he had done “nothing wrong other than complaining about the election,” […]
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Affordable, well-run, publicly owned railways are in everyone’s interest
Grant Shapps and Conservatives are trying to portray rail strikes as a clash of the travelling and tax-paying publics and rail workers. But that’s not how it looks from where I’m sitting. Social media is full of comments such as “I don’t drive. I rely on public transport. Without the trains I’m separated from my […]
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Mayor Eric Adams Is Siphoning Funds From Public Schools to Fortify NYPD
If budgets are moral documents, then New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s budget, recently passed by city council, confirms what many activists have been saying: that the city is pushing an unconscionable descent into an expanding police state. In such a state, not only do police budgets expand, but other agencies’ budgets shrink, even as […]
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Corporate Profits Soared to Highest Levels in 7 Decades Last Year
A new paper was published Tuesday showing that U.S. corporate profit and price markups rose to their highest levels ever since the 1950s. This reinforces arguments for a tax on excess profits as a way of reining in sky-high inflation. The Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal, and Niko Lusiani authored the book. analysis finds that markups—the […]
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A TikTok Investor Has Avoided $1 Billion in Taxes. Now He’s a GOP Megadonor.
Sooner or later in July 1985, three younger males from Philadelphia, their lawyer and a burly Pinkerton guard arrived at a horse observe outdoors Chicago carrying a briefcase with $250,000 in money. Operating the numbers on a Compaq pc the dimensions of a small fridge, Jeffrey Yass and his associates had discovered a solution to […]
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Don’t Let Corporations Profit From Our Inflation Pain
People deserve a fair share of the wealth we build in this country, but right now, Americans’ paychecks are being squeezed while corporate CEOs make windfall profits. Any plan that seeks to address inflation, like President Joe Biden’s recently published piece in the Wall Street JournalWe must acknowledge that corporations and the very wealthy are […]
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Javid labels NHS access debate hypocritical on first day of rail strikes
Adam Williams 21 June 2022 MPs debate NHS GP and dentist access, and the growing waiting lists in the UK. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting labelled health secretary Sajid Javid’s record “rubbish”, blaming “Conservative underfunding” for “patients finding it impossible to book GP appointments”. Javid focused on the rail strikes which he told the House […]
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Biden’s Budget Deficit Victory Lap Is Unearned and Unjustified
President Joe Biden is taking victory laps for last year’s reduced budget deficit. I would be happy to see this number drop in a significant manner. But the decline has nothing to do with the president’s policies, and it changes little about the dangers of our fiscal situation. According to the Treasury Department’s monthly reports, […]
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Truss rejects claims new NI protocol bill ‘breaks international law’
During foreign questions, secretary of state Liz Truss rejected shadow secretary David Lammy’s claim that the new protocol bill for Northern Ireland “breaks international law”. Lammy criticised the move which ”divides the UK and European Union when we should be pulling together”. Truss told MPs that nothing said by Lammy “is accurate”, and that the […]
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Old and invisible: The state pension age increase is pushing thousands into poverty
A new report that shows that nearly 100,000 people in a certain population were forced into absolute poverty within a two-year time frame due to one factor might lead you to believe that COVID or the cost of living crisis is to blame. It may surprise you to learn that the real cause of this […]
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