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Hedge Fund Billionaire Paul Singer Makes Argentina Cry For Itself
Argentina is the latest country to suffer at the hands of US vultures. Paul Singer of the Elliott Management hedge fund will reap a huge sum based on his purchase of Argentinian bonds in 2001. His firm...
View ArticleStudy Shows Why Women Janitors and Security Guards Are At Risk
By Debra Varnado / Capital & Main Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education are shining a light on troubling conditions they uncovered in the...
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The Language of Pinyon-Juniper Trees
After two months of struggling to write anything coherent about pinyon-juniper forests, I was on the verge of giving up. Members of the group I am campaigning with to stop pinyon-juniper deforestation...
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Financial Parasites Have Become Neo-Feudal Landlords
Classical economics divided income into two types: earned and unearned. Earned income came from productive labor combined with capital investment. Unearned income was considered parasitical and...
View ArticleRobert Reich Sees the Future: How the People’s Party Prevailed in 2020
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.Org Third parties have rarely taken over from the dominant two in American history. So how did the People’s Party win the U.S. presidency and a majority of both houses of...
View ArticleWhat San Diego Should Learn From the Country’s Best and Worst Public Transit...
From Portland’s TriMet to Atlanta’s MARTA By Hutton Marshall / SanDiego350.org Not all public transportation systems are created equal. Across the country, there’s a huge gulf between bumper-to-bumper...
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San Diego’s Old Central Library: Public Benefit or Profit Center?
A not-so-common idea for a building that belongs to us For three years, 150,000 square feet of space in downtown, belonging to the citizens of San Diego, has stood vacant. Each night, for these past...
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Lies of the Rich and Famous: Off-Shoring Dark Money and Fighting the Minimum...
As leaks of confidential documents go, the Panama Papers dwarf past disclosures. The story isn’t new: rich people use offshore shell corporations to avoid taxes. But the detail is stunning. And there...
View ArticleBeyond Panama: What the World Really Needs is the #DelawarePapers
That giant sucking sound you hear? It is the sound of money rushing to the U.S.A. by Nika Knight / CommonDreams Panama saw populist protests on Wednesday in response to Panama Papers revelations that...
View ArticleWhy the Panama Papers Are a Feminist Issue
By Chiara Capraro, Francesca Rhodes / OpenDemocracy.Net The world is talking about tax this week, so here’s another tax story for you. Asana Abugre has a small shop in Accra, Ghana where she makes and...
View ArticleWall Street Should Pay a Sales Tax, Too
When a high-rolling trader buys millions of dollars' worth of stocks or derivatives, there's no levy at all. By Sarah Anderson / OtherWords In case there was any doubt, the presidential election fight...
View ArticleWorking Without a Net
By Tom Sullivan / Digby's Hullabaloo David Dayen shares scenes from his life in the "gig" economy, or what he calls "the 1099 Economy." They are tales a lot of freelance writers can relate to, I...
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Carlsbad Council Outsources City’s Future Again
This Time It's a Florida Consulting Firm Over the last two years Carlsbad residents have watched city leaders squander more than $1 million to outsource the future of their Village by the Sea. They...
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The Great Eastern Expansion Into Chula Vista
Chula Vista Is Set To Have An Influx Of 60,000 Residents By Barbara Zaragoza For decades community groups such as Crossroads II have noted that the City of Chula Vista is nothing more than a bedroom...
View ArticleThe Death Gap
The richest Americans now live 10-15 years longer than the poorest. By Sam Pizzigati / OtherWords Rich people live longer than poor people. No big news there — we’ve known that health tracks wealth for...
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Puerto Rico is the Next Greece
It's the Same Old MO: Entice With Money, Then Foreclose It's deja vu all over again as Yogi Berra would say. Another country that went down the road of debt accumulation just to pay for essential...
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The Millenia Project: San Diego County’s New Downtown
By Barbara Zaragoza Last week, I spent a lot of time explaining the vast expansion taking place in eastern Chula Vista. Eleven villages total mean about 60,000 new residents will move into the area...
View ArticleMake Earth Day Every Day: How to Fight Climate Change Year Round
By Hutton Marshall / SanDiego350 Last month's annual Earth Day reminded people all over the globe of the importance of our planet’s health to everyday lives and to survival of future generations....
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San Diego’s Crisis of Compassion: Scorn, Indifference Don’t Solve Homelessness
It doesn’t take the recently released Point in Time Count report to know that the number of unsheltered people in downtown San Diego is exploding. Seeing every vacant lot encircled with blue tent and...
View ArticleA Twofer: Carbon Tax Solves Both Climate Change and Plastic Ocean Pollution
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green For more than half a century, cheaply-priced fossil fuels have come to define the American dream. We travel freely in gasoline powered vehicles and rely on coal,...
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