The Bail-In: How You and Your Money Will Be Parted During the Next Banking...
By John Lawrence There will be no more taxpayer bailouts for the Big Wall Street banks. That much has been established by the lobbied to death Dodd-Frank banking reform (yeah, right) bill. However,...
View ArticleA View on Cuba’s Opening From the De Facto U.S. Colony of Puerto Rico
The hard questions of the Obam-apertura. By Ed Morales / NACLA The “momentous” yet seemingly long-planned announcement that the United States and Cuba have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations...
View ArticleExpanding the Veteran Sleeping Bag Distribution Program in San Diego
By Stan Levin/ San Diego Veterans for Peace The San Diego Chapter Veterans for Peace (SDVFP) has for the past several years been actively engaged in our signature charity the "Compassion Campaign."...
View ArticleNational Campaign to Increase Minimum Wage Takes Aim at San Diego
By Doug Porter San Diego is one of seven cities selected by the national AFL-CIO for a long-term effort to concentrate political and economic actions aimed at making increasing the minimum wage an...
View ArticleRedefining the American Dream
By John Lawrence The American Dream is the ideological underpinning of the middle class. Now that the middle class is disappearing, it no longer makes sense as historically defined. Thom Hartmann...
View ArticleCivita: The Largest Project in the Continued Destruction of Mission Valley
Part 2 By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag In mid-October I wrote about how four large residential and commercial development projects and a handful of smaller ones slated for Mission Valley will complete the...
View ArticleBlack Wealth Matters
For generations, white households have enjoyed far greater access to wealth and security than their black counterparts. By Chuck Collins / OtherWords As protesters march through our cities to remind us...
View ArticleThe Mayor’s State of the Chargers Speech: Where’s the Beef?
By Doug Porter San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer made a pile o’ promises in his decidedly optimistic State of the City speech last night. "Never before has there been so much promise for our future,”...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Watch: 2014 Hottest Year on Record
By John Lawrence It's official: NOAA and NASA have confirmed that 2014 was the hottest year on record. Despite the fact of Arctic cold winters on the US east coast, the average earth surface...
View ArticleRichest 1% Percent To Have More Than Rest of Humanity Combined
New Oxfam report shows the scale of global inequality is 'simply staggering' by Jon Queally / Common Dreams In less than two years, if current trends continued unchecked, the richest 1% percent of...
View ArticleChange the World, Change Yourself
By Will Falk Friends and family tell me I too often focus on the negative. My doctors and therapists have told me me this, too. Diagnosed as I am with severe depression and surviving two suicide...
View ArticleOn Roe vs. Wade Anniversary, GOP House Passes Vicious Assault on Women’s...
Reproductive rights advocates say legislation would cause entire insurance market to drop abortion coverage while raising taxes on small businesses By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams On the 42nd...
View ArticleYour Home Is Your Prison
How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You By Maya Schenwar / TomDispatch On January 27th, domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander will walk out of Florida's Duval County jail --...
View ArticleThe Mainstream Meets Occupy
By Robert Borosage / Campaign for America's Future The 1 percent continue to capture virtually all of the income growth in the country, while the average incomes of the 99 percent continue to fall. And...
View ArticleThe Greek Earthquake
Syriza will not easily sweep the policies of austerity aside, but there is a palpable feeling on the continent that a tide is turning By Conn Hallinan / Foreign Policy in Focus Almost before the votes...
View ArticleApple Corporation Sitting on a Pile of Cash It Has No Use For
By John Lawrence Apple Corporation is sitting on $178 billion in cash, and it literally doesn't know what to do with it. But it knows one thing: it doesn't want to give any of it to Uncle Sam or any...
View ArticleTexas Town Comes Up With the Best Use For an Old Walmart
By Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos Walmarts are everywhere. They take up tons of space. Superbowl space. They sell everything, they succeed where mom-and-pop businesses fail—and sometimes, they shut down....
View ArticleDispatches from the Class War (On You)
By Jim Miller Last July, after the Harris v. Quinn decision took the first step toward gutting the power of public sector unions in America I noted that case “pretty much guarantees that we’ll see more...
View ArticleLabor Unrest Spreads to Refineries, West Coast Ports, SoCal Edison and...
By Doug Porter Local gasoline prices have increased by roughly 20% over the past few weeks. Retailers dependent on imported goods are voicing concerns about bottlenecks in supplies coming through west...
View ArticleSan Diego Group Gets Award to Expand Solar Power Use at Condos and Apartments
By John Lawrence Everywhere in San Diego you see solar panels being installed atop single family homes and large businesses. But hardly anywhere do you see them going in on the large number of local...
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