Analysis

Taxing the oil companies hot air

February 3, 2006 By Mark Weisbrot And Dean Baker

Last October 12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to nine major oil companies, asking them to donate part of their record profits to help poor Americans faced with large increases in their heating oil costs this...

U.S. helps terrorists thrive in Miami

January 27, 2006

Commentary Gerardo Hernández, one of the imprisoned anti-terrorist Cuban Five, sends a cartoon that he drew depicting a wall around the United States. Not everybody can get in. A sign says, “Anti-Cuba terrorists only.” Anti-Cuba terrorist...

No pension? No health care? No retirement?

January 27, 2006

For everybody who isn’t asleep, it’s obvious that American employers intend to destroy all hope of “golden years” retirement. They intend to work us until we die. The latest nail being driven into our collective coffin...

In remembrance: Women who died from illegal and unsafe abortions

January 27, 2006

Jan. 23 was the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, which “recognized and guaranteed women’s constitutional right to control their own bodies,” as Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women,...

To take back Congress, take a page from Karl Rove

January 27, 2006

It’s all too coincidental. The former vice president of the United States of America draws considerable media coverage when he charges the current president is a threat to the republic and calls for a special, independent...