Robert L. Borosage: Congress excels at setting lofty goals that it is certain to forget or ignore. But we've got an economy where corporate profits are up, bank profits are up, inequality is rising -- and there are no jobs. This cannot become the new normal. Congress and the president must define full employment as the measure by which their actions should be judged. Or alternatively, admit that full employment is no longer plausible, in which case we must build a strong social contract -- of training, guaranteed income, health care -- for those discarded from the workforce. Click here to read more.
Unless Democrats take the discourse by the horns and fight, Republicans will balloon the deficit and undermine the economic recovery in order to give more handouts to the super rich. And the middle class will be an accomplice in its own homicide.
WikiLeaks is a declared combatant in information warfare: high-tech, good-government vigilantes. The group acts as the consummate outsider, a crucial role in the shadow elite era.
Although Western liberalism may retain considerable appeal, the Western way of war has run its course.
The commentary is that the decision the Court handed Obama's Justice Department on the Arizona immigration law, will be bad for swing Democrats. But there are two reasons why that that kind of knee-jerk response is just wrong.
The will of the American people is being subordinated to the demands of giant money-making machines called global corporations that can now spend or threaten to spend unlimited amounts of money in support of any politician.
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