Author: fairleft

1. Shareholders are not owners First of all, let's dispose of a myth: shareholders are not owners and do not want to be owners of the corporations they invest in. Ownership would necessarily involve liability for corporate...

The map above is just a thought experiment, and I hope it’s accepted in that spirit. Just imagine the U.S. and all its citizens beamed up to the heaven of their choice, and then the ‘lower 48’ sinking into the...

With the way they f&%#cked up and funded the Iraq occupation a couple weeks ago, it’s hard to have anything to do with the Democrats these days. But an e-mail from Progressive Democrats of America this morning tells me...

Promoted by Steven D. I ended my contributions to MoveOn after 2004 because I felt they had become less a progressive organization than just another promoter of the Democratic Party. I want progressives to be pushing the Dems to...

I’m sorry, Senator Reid, Congressmen Obey and Murtha, and Big Tent Democrat, but September will be just like May, unless . . . you change this: “I cannot vote … to stop funding for our troops who are in...