**Updated: May 25, 2015
All posts by Rima Regas
Reich, Stiglitz, Sanders, Baker, Krugman and Warren don’t have you convinced? Here’s Senator Merkley | #TPP on Blog#42
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Obama’s Trade Deal In One Short Speech
Updated 05/23/2015
Hybrid seed | Blog#42
There I lay, a seed Continue reading Hybrid seed | Blog#42
Richard J. Eskow (@RJEskow): The Left Matters – Now, More Than Ever | Progressive voices on Blog#42
May 22, 2015
Some leading Democrats seem to have a love-hate relationship with the left. Sure, progressives seem to have more influence than ever in the party this year, at least rhetorically. But it doesn’t look like the friction will be going away any time soon. Continue reading Richard J. Eskow (@RJEskow): The Left Matters – Now, More Than Ever | Progressive voices on Blog#42
Moonface ~ Cushing’s Syndrome | Blog#42
Cushing’s Syndrome Continue reading Moonface ~ Cushing’s Syndrome | Blog#42
Open letter to Joe @MadisonSiriusXM: on #ManUp, #PantsUp on Blog#42
Dear Mr. Madison,
I’ve been a fan of yours for many years. That is, I was one until I saw this picture on your Facebook timeline this week.
Continue reading Open letter to Joe @MadisonSiriusXM: on #ManUp, #PantsUp on Blog#42
Paul Krugman: Trade and Trust | Postscript to my comment | NYTimes | Blog#42
Curated below are my comments and replies from New York Times readers, followed by an excerpt of Paul Krugman’s May 22nd op-ed. Since the publication of this op-ed, the U.S. Senate has passed the legislation that enables the fast-track of the TPP in Congress. The legislation is now, quite ironically, in the hands of none other than Paul Ryan. Continue reading Paul Krugman: Trade and Trust | Postscript to my comment | NYTimes | Blog#42
What we’re arguing about when we’re arguing about trade deals. | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
What we’re arguing about when we’re arguing about trade deals.
Your Congress in its own words: what they can’t say about the TPP | Blog#42
Here are your representatives in the U.S. Congress, in their own words, about what they are allowed and not allowed to see and do, when it comes to doing YOUR business in the context of a trade agreement that will affect your jobs, the prices you pay for certain things and the legal rights of corporations vis a vis the laws your Congress passed.
This is not how a Democracy is supposed to operate. Continue reading Your Congress in its own words: what they can’t say about the TPP | Blog#42
Harry Houck: an exemplar of supremacist indoctrination
A May 19th CNN panel compared the handling of the Waco, Texas biker gang by Texas police, and the media’s depiction of this weekend’s events as compared to the unrest in Baltimore, Maryland, just two weeks earlier. The panel included journalists Charles M. Blow and Sally Kohn, and former law enforcement officer Harry Houck. Later that evening, the same panelists reconvened on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon to reprise the conversation they had earlier with anchor Brooke Baldwin.
Continue reading Harry Houck: an exemplar of supremacist indoctrination