The Economy

 The depths to which our "4th Estate" has sunk is the result of a deliberate plan to obscure the differences between contrived drama...

At a time in our nation's history when our Supreme Court has chosen the wealthy to dominate our politics and the press has mostly abandoned their duty to empower the public with truth, how can the people find their way back to a true and responsive democracy?

During and right after the mortgage crisis some were talking about the commercial crash and how that would soon hit.  At the time I thought,...

So, the "economy" is booming. Or is it? If the only measure of the success of the economy is the stock market, which measures the optimism of the rich that they will continually get richer and richer, at a faster and faster rate of growth, then that's not necessarily good for the rest of us.

As is our tradition at PlanetPOV, we celebrate Christmas with our version of a well known carol...well known before we got our hands on it, that is. This year's carol is the kid classic, "Nuttin' For Christmas".

America's failed war on drugs supplies an almost endless stream of inmates to these corporations. The more people these companies incarcerate, the more money these companies make. There is something fundamentally wrong with all of this.

The first American Dream conference will take place October 3 - 5, 2011 in Washington, D.C.  I am posting a number of emails that...

I've mentioned Randi Rhodes a few times on this site. She's probably my favorite progressive broadcaster (Rachel Maddow is nipping at her heels). I...