To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Death Penalty, Take II
BY SUSAN ESTRICH When he was district attorney of Los Angeles more than a decade ago, Gil Garcetti was for the death penalty. While he himself never tried a death penalty case, his office prosecuted more than any other county in California. That was a point of pride – at least back then. Had he […]
Corporate Elites Still Doing A Job On American Workers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER On this Labor Day weekend, our country is engulfed in deep economic anxiety, and no doubt you share my heartfelt concern for those Americans who’re suffering the worst of these uncertain times. I refer, of course, to millionaire corporate chieftains and big bankers. What? You thought maybe I was referring to our […]
Who Shapes What You Think?
Steve Jobs Told Us What We Wanted
BY FROMA HARROP “It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want” – Steve Jobs Steve Jobs didn’t make his billions shorting stocks, feeding off the taxpayers or simply being around when a rich relative died. The college dropout from California mixed technology with popular culture and brilliant marketing to make handsome products that […]