CALL FOR ACTION - Geithner's toxic assets plan
We all have been watching how Congress acts in a knee-jerk fashion in response to populist anger and lazy/indifferent otherwise . This when they should be acting proactively and showing leadership in...
View ArticleBREAKING : Congress votes to defund itself
To call it "bizarre" is simply an understatement. Congress voted by a landslide to slash it's own pay & benefits for its irresponsibility and past misdeeds leading to the sorry state of the nation...
View ArticleNaomi Klein nails it on G20
My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I’m not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday.I’m...
View ArticlePiling up on Elizabeth Warren
Well, not really. It is more like piling up for her nomination as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). This is to further highlight why she is uniquely qualified to lead the CFPA,...
View ArticleChris Hayes on the Obama admin's single biggest failure
If you guessed it is Afghanistan, you are wrong. It is actually HAMP (Homeowners Affordable Mortgage Program), the Obama administration's program for rescuing underwater homeowners. Standing in for...
View ArticleThe inconvenient truth about the "Waiting for Superman" movie
"Waiting for Superman" (WfS), the much hyped movie on Education reform, is directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed "Inconvenient Truth". Guess who produced it? Details below fold.
View ArticleAlert : Anti-GLBT forces target 3 Iowa supreme court judges in retention...
This is not going to be much of a diary but wanted to alert Kossacks about this.
View ArticleAction alert: National call-in , blog-a-thon on 11/16 for extension of...
Not going to be much of a diary , except to share the important email from www.Unemployedworkers.org. The email reads as below.
View ArticleDean Baker :"The threat of a debt default is a gun pointed most directly at...
That is from a post titled "Saving Social Security: Stopping Obama’s Next Bad Deal" about the upcoming battle on raising the debt ceiling . Baker helps us makes sense of the situation , what really is...
View ArticleAre education "reformers" better than a 4th grader?
The teaching profession has been under attack like never before. It is tough being a teacher these days. Apart from doing more & more with less, they are accused of being "greedy" and what not.And...
View ArticleI e-mailed my senator today reg cat food commission/deficits
I am getting ready for a trip abroad for 3 weeks starting tomorrow. At the last minute, I decided to dash an e-mail to my senator which I have been thinking about, but had been postponing forever....
View ArticleAction alert : Sponsor a "protest/solidarity pizza" for WI protesters.
Not going to be much a diary and hope the diary police will spare me. This is too important not to share even if it is a half-baked diary, I feel.
View ArticleDiane Ravitch strongly defends teachers, once again.
This on NPR's Talk of the Nation show today.http://www.npr.org/...I don't have a transcript of the show but will do my best to recap the points which came up, including listener calls. And add very few...
View ArticleNew video nails Michelle Rhee's slash & burn approach
Yes, that Michelle Rhee. You know, the diva of education deform movement and media darling. H/t Valerie Strauss at WaPo.
View ArticleIf Paul Ryan were a car mechanic....
This is priceless, perfectly capturing (Ayn) Randian devotee, plutocrat and media darling - the "telegenic" Paul Ryan's worldview and the Villagers' fascination with him. h/t : Corrente
View ArticleA teacher's royal smackdown of Arne Duncan.
This is priceless . Way to go, Teacher Sabrina.It is National Teacher Appreciation Week.And Arne Duncan, the "education" secretary pens an open letter to the teachers , full of platitudes. Considering...
View Article"Thanks but no thanks". Teachers excoriate Arne Duncan at Ed.gov
This in response to Duncan's dishonest , concern-trolling ("Oh, I feel your pain") trash of a letter he wrote during the National Teacher Depreciation Appreciation week.h/t Diane Ravitch
View ArticleEzra Klein comes unhinged, suggests kicking the poor and grandma to the curb
In which Ezra Klein suggests a "kinder,gentler" version of media darling Paul Ryan's Medicare killing plan.....
View ArticleWhat an actual downgrading of US government debt means
The rating agencies S&P and Moody's have been threatening to downgrade US government bond ratings because of "runaway" debt , at least since 2010. And they issued threats again last week amid the...
View ArticleFlashback: "Shock & Awe" - Deficit hysteria whipped up to attack Canadian...
This from Naomi klein's excellent book "Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism".h/t to Dave Johnson at Campaign for America's Future , for the text from Klein's book (so I didn't have to type...
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