Debt Lock: Will Obama Make Cuts to Social Security and Medicare?
AMY GOODMAN: Bipartisan talks continue at the White House today as President Obama seeks to broker a compromise budget deal that would allow Congress to raise the national debt ceiling. The U.S. is...
View ArticleAfter Months of Partisan Wrangling, Wall Street & Pentagon Emerge Victorious...
AMY GOODMAN: After months of a bitterly partisan stalemate, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of raising the federal borrowing limit and avoiding a default on the national debt. The...
View ArticleEconomist Dean Baker Predicts A "Really Bad Deal or No Deal" from Deficit...
AMY GOODMAN: We continue to talk about the economic state of the United States of America. Dean Baker with us, economist, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Donna Edwards,...
View ArticleRep. Donna Edwards on Why She Voted Against Debt Deal: “A Bad Framework for...
AMY GOODMAN: President Obama has officially signed legislation to increase the U.S. debt ceiling in time to avoid a national default. The $2.1 trillion deficit-reduction plan cleared its final hurdle...
View ArticleBipartisan "Super Committee" Turns to Cutting Deficit with "Extraordinary"...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the economy. On Thursday, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi named the final three members of the bipartisan "super committee" tasked with finding a way out of the U.S....
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on the U.S. Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military...
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is MIT professor Noam Chomsky. His latest book is called 9-11: Was There an Alternative? That last question, "Was there an alternative?," referring to the...
View ArticleU.S. Census Reports Reveals One in Six Americans Are Poor, One in Five...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to look at the devastating financial reality now facing many Americans. A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals the number of people living in poverty last year...
View Article"99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street" By Amy Goodman
If 2,000 tea party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Yet 2,000 people did occupy Wall Street on Saturday. They weren’t...
View ArticleMitt Romney Celebrates Primary Sweep; Embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Mitt Romney made a clean sweep of the Wisconsin, D.C. and Maryland primaries Tuesday, bringing him much closer to the Republican presidential nomination. The former Massachusetts...
View Article"An Extreme Choice": Embracing Ayn Rand, GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan Backs...
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with the latest news in the U.S. presidential race. On Saturday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney announced Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would be his...
View Article77 Years After FDR Signs Social Security, VP Pick Paul Ryan Pushes...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Social Security, which celebrated its 77th anniversary on Tuesday. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first signed Social Security into law on August 14th, 1935, at a time...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald: Starting with Fiscal Cliff, Obama's 2nd Term Rests on...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: So can you say a little bit, Glenn, about the significance of Obama’s re-election last week? GLENN GREENWALD: Well, I think that a lot of it depends not on what President Obama does....
View ArticleRep. Raúl Grijalva Rejects Obama "Fiscal Cliff" Plan to Cut More from Social...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We stay in the nation’s capital now as we turn to the so-called "fiscal cliff" deal that could come to a vote as early as Thursday. On Monday, the White House issued a new offer to...
View ArticleSo-Called Fiscal Cliff Averted as Congress Begins New Fight over Spending on...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: After much drama, the so-called fiscal cliff has come to an end—for now. Late Tuesday night, the Republican-led House voted to approve the deal. That came after the Democratic-led...
View ArticleDog Whistle Politics: How Politicians Use Coded Racism to Push Through...
AARON MATÉ: The 47 million people who rely on food stamps in the U.S. are facing their second threat in less than three months. In what critics dubbed the "hunger cliff," automatic budget cuts meant...
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