Tag: Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland: Are Wikileaks and Anonymous Hackers All There Is Left We Can Rely On, with Trust in Business and Government at Rock Bottom?
September 2011 |
Their ability to bring powerful giants to heel is as compelling as the mythical Robin Hood’s battle with a haughty medieval aristocracy. |
Joshua Holland: The 10 States With the Worst Economies In America
August 2011 |
The global economic crash hurt everyone, but not equally; here are the states that are feeling the greatest economic pain. |
Joshua Holland: The 10 States With the Best Economies in America
August 2011 |
Not all states have experienced the same kind of economic pain since the Great Recession began. |
Joshua Holland: Media Malpractice: CBS Pins Bush Debt On Obama
August 2011 |
Get the facts straight—the current economic distress began under Bush. |
Joshua Holland: No, We Won’t End Up Like Greece: 5 Reasons Conservative Fear-Mongering Is Totally Wrong
July 2011 |
Right-wing media and lawmakers are spinning utterly wrong comparisons between the U.S. and Greece. |
Joshua Holland: Mexicans No Longer Immigrating to U.S.? (What Will Xenophobes Freak Out About Now?)
July 2011 |
A common perception that helps fuel hostility toward migrants is that there’s a never-ending pool of people dying to come here, but that’s just not true. |
Joshua Holland: Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Using Dodgy Statistics to Fuel Child Sex Slavery Panic
July 2011 |
Throwing wildly inflated numbers around doesn’t help young people avoid falling into the horrific world of prostitution. |
Joshua Holland: How the Hell Do You Get Out of Debt If You’re Not a CEO Raking in Millions?
June 2011 |
Americans want to get out of debt, but the working majority are tapped out and having real problems making ends meet. |
Joshua Holland: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Cameron Diaz?
June 2011 |
“White Hispanics” are white people who trace their origins to Spain, and they’re the reason reports of America’s coming “white minority” status are 100-percent wrong. |
Joshua Holland: 9 Countries That Do It Better: Why Does Europe Take Better Care of Its People Than America?
June 2011 |
The world’s wealthy democracies have somewhat different priorities, leading to some very different outcomes for their citizens. |
Joshua Holland: Corporate America Is Hoarding Tons of Cash: Why In the World Would Obama Think About Giving Them More Tax Cuts?
June 2011 |
The White House is desperate to get any measure that might boost the economy past a dysfunctional Congress. |
Joshua Holland: 9 Signs That We May Be Living Through Another Depression
June 2011 |
Three in 10 Americans say we’re living through another depression—are they right? |
Joshua Holland: Stop the Granny Bashing: Despite What You May Think, Our Seniors Are in Trouble
June 2011 |
We must fight the deficit hysterics’ relentless granny-bashing. Most people don’t grasp that this group has already been hit hard by budget cuts and the recession. |
Joshua Holland: Five Eye-Opening Facts About Our Bloated Post-9/11 “Defense” Spending
May 2011 |
A dollar spent on guns is one less buck available for butter. |
Joshua Holland: Was the Killing of Osama bin Laden Legal?
May 2011 |
We don’t know whether the administration ordered the al Qaeda leader killed, but that hasn’t stopped an acrimonious debate. |
Joshua Holland: Thanks to Decades of Conservative Spin, Americans Are Hopelessly Confused About Taxes, Spending and the Deficit
May 2011 |
Conservatives have spent 30 years divorcing the taxes we pay from the services they finance—no wonder the public doesn’t know where their tax dollars go. |
Joshua Holland: Did Osama bin Laden Win the “War on Terror”?
May 2011 |
Perhaps we should stop cheering for our “success.” |
Joshua Holland: Bin Laden’s Killing Shows the Utter Folly of our “War on Terror”
May 2011 |
The best outcome of bin Laden’s death would be for us to declare victory in the “war on terror” and bring the troops home. |
Joshua Holland: 5 Fun Facts About the Fight Over the Debt Ceiling
April 2011 |
That lawmakers who receive a paycheck to govern this country are threatening to bring about economic catastrophe shows that our discourse is approaching Peak Crazy. |
Joshua Holland: Tax Day Question: Who’s Paying What?
April 2011 |
Happy Tax Day. Remember that while your taxes are lower than in other advanced countries, they don’t get you free or very low-cost health-care, deeply subsidized university tuition, or 21st century infrastructure! |
Joshua Holland: Eight Unemployed for Every Job Opening: What Are They Supposed to Do Once Their Benefits Run Out?
March 2011 |
Is there any hope of help arriving for the “99ers”? |
Joshua Holland: Japan Nuclear Disaster Unprecedented—No Way to Know About U.S. Impact
March 2011 |
Events taking place in the Fukushima No. 1 power plant are simply unprecedented and the situation appears to be deteriorating. |
Joshua Holland: 5 Ways Corporate Scavengers Are Making Big Money Off Our Economic Pain
February 2011 |
Like vultures descending on a rotting corpse, [big business have] come up with a variety of innovative methods to pull the last scraps of meat off the bones of America’s middle-class. |
Joshua Holland: Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them
February 2011 |
The degree to which Ayn Rand has become a touchstone for the modern conservative movement is striking. |
