(Photo Caption: The Raging Grannies (Photo: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) By Bette McDevitt Sorry, folks, it’s not you. It’s Lockheed. In the recent 1.3 trillion dollar budget, the defense contractors will share a large […]
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Trading Principles for Power
By Cheryl Bauer The election of Donald Trump in 2016 is not only evidence of the power held by self-identified white, evangelical Christian voters, but of an enormous shift in principle of […]
We CAN Do It
By John Hemington Every day some politician or some media talking head tells us that we can’t have the social programs or infrastructure improvements we need “because there isn’t enough money;” “the […]
A Hellish Bargain
By Michael Drohan Review of book: Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green, 2017. Green’s book relives the events that catapulted Donald Trump to […]
Has the American State Been Captured?
By Neil Cosgrove Americans often express concern that their government has become too much in the thrall of ideologies, of ways of interpreting the world so extreme that the ideologues in question […]
Draft Treaty Bans Nuclear Weapons
June 23, 2017 – By Molly Rush Good news! Final negotiations on the Draft Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons recently took place in New York City, beginning on June 15 […]
Hoover vs. Baldwin: The FBI File
June 22, 2017 – By Neil Cosgrove During the 1950s and ‘60s FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was something of a folk hero for millions of Americans, a crime-fighting protector of the […]
A Budget from Hell
June 15, 2017 – By Michael Drohan On May 22, Donald Trump produced his Budget Proposal for 2018. If ever there was a statement that government is at the service of the […]
Bread for the World Lobby Day Review
June 28, 2017 – By Joyce Rothermel Currently in Washington, D.C, it’s budget season and the Trump administration has made it loud and clear they want to cut and structurally change SNAP […]
Another Defense of Planned Parenthood
June 30, 2017 – By Jacqueline Souza The constant legislative attack on women in the U.S. is not and never was about protecting family values, nor an attempt to shrink our national deficit […]
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