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Hilda Solis: Defending Working People in 2011
March 29, 2011"I do see flickers of hope, I see that there's an organic movement going on in Wisconsin, across the country," said Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, "It's time to get activated, It's time to let our elected officials know what we want in terms of better working conditions and a better, fair playing field for everyone. Not just those at the top, but those at the bottom and the middle."Deepak Bhargava, Charlene Strong and Larry Summers
September 22, 2010"The first step is to stop apologizing," says Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change. "We have ideas; we are often cowed by the ferociousness of the argument from conservatives." Indeed, in the wake of Larry Summers' departure from the Obama administration--and the news that the administration wants to head off criticism that it's been anti-business--as well as the failure of Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal and the DREAM Act in the Senate, it often seems like conservatives are winning.The F Word: Larry Summers: Goodbye To All That
September 22, 2010The Internet was all a-Twitter yesterday when news broke that Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, will step down by the end of the year. Summers -- ring a bell? Maybe you remember his comments as president of Harvard that gender skewed admissions numbers might be explained by female frailty in the area of math and science. Or perhaps you remember his role, chasing away Brooksley Born, chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) in order to push through Clinton's deregulations—you know, the ones that helped lead to the current crash.Mike Papantonio: BP's PR Machine
June 8, 2010Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, but something else has been gushing too lately: BP's public relations offensive. From controlling media access to the site, as Mac McClelland reported to us last week, to buying up search terms on the Web so that Google drives traffic to BP's own website, the oil company seems determined to burnish its image even as its oil continues to cover the coasts.Mike Papantonio, Ann Wright, and Learning from Roosevelt
June 7, 2010Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, but something else has been gushing too lately: BP's public relations offensive. From controlling media access to the site, as Mac McClelland reported to us last week, to buying up search terms on the Web so that Google drives traffic to BP's own website, the oil company seems determined to burnish its image even as its oil continues to cover the coasts.Mike Papantonio: Centrist Syndrome & Corporate Death Penalty
May 24, 2010BP has yet to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and the Obama administration seems content to let them remain in charge. Or is it that whether or not they are happy with the state of affairs, huge corporations like BP simply have too much control of our government? According to Mike Papantonio, it's a little from column A, a little from column B: Ken Salazar, interior secretary, is a friend of oil companies and has certainly allowed them free rein, but at the same time, it's an age-old problem at this point that we've handed over too much government power to private companies.BP spill, Chris Hayes & John Fugelsang, and Social Spending
May 24, 2010BP has yet to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and the Obama administration seems content to let them remain in charge. Or is it that whether or not they are happy with the state of affairs, huge corporations like BP simply have too much control of our government? According to Mike Papantonio, it's a little from column A, a little from column B: Ken Salazar, interior secretary, is a friend of oil companies and has certainly allowed them free rein, but at the same time, it's an age-old problem at this point that we've handed over too much government power to private companies.
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