Venezuelans revered Hugo Chavez for the same reason that officials here in the U.S. hated him - and why we should be taking a page out of the Chavez playbook in tonight's Daily Take...
- By Robert Reich
The Republican Party makeover is breathtaking. Now, suddenly, instead of accusing Democrats of being “redistributionists,” the GOP is posing as defender of the middle class against corporate America — and it’s doing so by proposing to do away with the most progressive piece of legislation in well over a decade.
The GOP has long advocated the trickle-down mantra, which suggests that by providing tax breaks and other benefits to the wealthy, prosperity will eventually "trickle down" to the rest of the population.
- By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges gave this talk in Brooklyn at the People’s Recovery Summit.
- By Staff
WASHINGTON POST - Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks. The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.
- By Staff
THE ATLANTIC - In most places, being ranked by a prominent magazine among the wealthiest people in the country constitutes a great honor. Not in China.
- By Staff
DEMOCRACY NOW - The new documentary, "Fire in the Blood," examines how millions have died from AIDS because big pharmaceutical companies and the United States have refused to allow developing nations to import life-saving generic drugs.