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Nailing Monsanto
At the tail end of CBS This Morning this Wednesday, was a brief interview with Monsanto’s CEO, Hugh Grant (not the movie star), on the debate over GMO labeling. He tried to come off as a soft-spoken,...
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Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: Livin’ La Vida Logan
Barrio Logan is one of the oldest neighborhoods in San Diego. It used to be one whole community called Logan Heights, named after congressman John A. Logan, but the creation of the Interstate 5 freeway...
View ArticleWhat to Do About Disloyal Corporations
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.Org Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move its corporate headquarters from New York to Ireland....
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It’s Time for Quantitative Easing for People Instead of Banks
Income Inequality is Getting Worse Income and wealth inequality is only getting worse. It's not hard to understand why. Certain corporations have a lock on economic activity throughout the world. Mom...
View ArticleThe Number 1 Thing Rich People Get Dead Wrong About Poor People
Debunking one of the biggest myths about poverty By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet Many wealthy white conservative males believe they deserve their good fortunes, and that the poor are taking handouts. But...
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Restraining Order Offers Glimpse into Escondido School Board Follies
Sometimes big headlines result from big spin. Take Escondido, for instance. Politicians in that north county bastion of reaction have mastered the fine art of drama when it comes to politics. Whether...
View ArticleClass as Part of the American Freedom Struggle
By Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money When we tell stories of the American road to freedom, which is how we do frame a lot of our historical narratives in popular memory, we talk about white male...
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Pinyon-Juniper Forests: The Oldest Refugee Crisis
My thoughts race with yesterday. My friend Max Wilbert and I left Park City, Utah in the pre-dawn bitter cold crossing the Wasatch Mountains that form the eastern edge of the Great Basin. The drive...
View ArticleExcerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: San Ysidro Blues — 30 Years After the Massacre
By Francisco J. Bustos I remember playing on the kitchen floor when the shots started firing. I remember my cousin and I running outside the apartment, like many others did. The sound of bullets...
View ArticleWorking Until It’s Time for Your Grave
Like many Americans, my mom has no retirement savings By Tiffany Williams / OtherWords “My plan is just to work until I die.” That’s how my mom sums up her retirement prospects. She’s worked more than...
View ArticleBreaking News: Poll Shows California Pension Ballot Measures Already in Trouble
By Dan Braun & Bill Raden / Capital & Main A pair of potential ballot initiatives written to overhaul California’s public pensions could face a rough road, according to a new poll. The results...
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HUD Bureaucrats to San Diego’s Homeless Service Providers: My Way or the Highway
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently came out with a 55-page document titled “Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Defining “Chronically Homeless”. I...
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Progressive Activism in 2015: Fighting for $15 and/or Anything Else They Can Get
This was the year that growing inequality became too big a problem to ignore. A growing chorus of voices broke through the white noise of the media’s slavish subservience to the concept of ‘trickle...
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Censored 2015: The Most Underreported Story of the Year
As I wrote back in mid-October, Project Censored recently released their list of the most underreported stories of 2015. The number one story on their list features the news that 2016 will be the year...
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Uber Capitalist, Martin Shkreli, the Most Hated Man in America, Arrested
The Poster Boy for Corporate Greed Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who bought the drug, Daraprim and then raised the price from $13.50 to $750. a pill was arrested on December 17 by the...
View ArticleIf California is Such a Hostile Business Climate, Why is it Kicking Everyone...
By Kos / Daily Kos You hear conservatives tell it, the key to a job-creating positive business environment is … drum roll … low taxes! So the conservative Tax Foundation will rank the best and worst...
View ArticleTop 10 News Stories That Did Not Appear In 2015 (But I Really Wanted To Read)
By Susan Grigsby / Daily Kos It is traditional at the end of the year to look back at the year’s events and rank them according to significance or popularity. In my youth, I used to enjoy the news...
View ArticleWith a Spate of New Laws, California May Be the Most Progressive State in the...
By Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthDig California lawmakers have been extremely busy actually getting work done—unlike their federal counterparts in Washington, D.C. The most populous state in the nation is...
View ArticleThe Economy in 2016: On the Edge of Recession
By Robert Reich Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good, but I’ll hazard a guess. I expect the U.S. economy to sputter in 2016. That’s because the economy faces a deep structural...
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Bottomless Pit of Right-Wing Lies Continues as City Pension Reform Scheme...
Over the last few days we’ve heard, via the Union-Tribune and the Wall Street Journal’s free marketeers, a tale of woe arising from the ruling of a state agency holding that the city of San Diego...
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