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Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: Dave Eggers' gem of a book, "A Hologram for the King," is a parable about the decadence, fragility and heartlessness of late, decayed corporate capitalism. It is about the small, largely colorless men and women who serve as managers in our suicidal outsourcing of manufacturing jobs and the methodical breaking of labor unions. It is about the lie of globalization, a lie that impoverishes us all to increase corporate profits. 
Jake Bernstein , News Analysis: "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's allies seemed to give a big old raspberry to presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on the front page of the New York Post today. Anonymous sources told the paper that Romney demanded Christie agree to resign the governorship if he was offered vice president on the GOP ticket. Christie was said to have declined since he didn't think Romney would win." 
Dean Baker, Op-Ed: Washington is the mecca for people across the country and around the world who have difficulty seeing the obvious. The economy tanked because the country had a huge housing bubble that burst. The collapse sent the economy into a long and severe recession because there was nothing that could replace the $1.4 trillion in annual demand that was generated by the housing bubble. In the absence of a stimulus program that was 2-3 times the size of the one President Obama put forward and considerably longer lasting, the economy was doomed to a prolonged period of unemployment. None of this is 20-20 hindsight; some of us said it repeatedly as clearly as possible in advance. 
Rebecca Leber, News Report: Last week, Mitt Romney unveiled a plan for "energy independence" by 2020, a proposal analysts calledunrealistic, in part because he would roll back the same initiatives responsible for lowering U.S. foreign oil consumption. Today, the Obama Administration is set to announce new rules that boost fuel efficiency to54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, which would save 3 million barrels of oil per day, 2 billion metric tons of carbon pollution, and create 570,000 jobs by 2030. 
Tad Daley, Op-Ed: "In 2011, people across the planet reached out to Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. Millions watched as one nation after another rose in mass revolutions across the Arab world. The Occupy movement blossomed, as citizens in cities around the globe expressed rage over the excesses of capitalism and corporate power. And Timemagazine named 'The Protester' its annual Person of the Year." 
Susan Ferriss, News Analysis: Undocumented youths 15 to 30 years old certainly can't vote. But they are a large group — estimated at 800,000 to 1.7 million — that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn't think he can write off completely. Why? Conventional wisdom has it that Romney, to win, needs to peel off Latino votes from President Obama in key swing states such as Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado. Some Latino voters were once undocumented themselves, or know someone who was or is. 
Robert Reich, Video Feature: Romney never showed his own economic plan so he got a running mate who had one which he thinks is great. Robert Reich breaks down the five points of the Ryan economic plan: more unemployment, take from poor and give to rich, turn medicare into vouchers, adding money to defenses, won't reduce the budget deficit. 
George Lakey, Op-Ed: "The middle class is socialized to remain confused about power. That's how middle-class people can create narratives that ignore class struggle and assign the primary responsibility to — in the case of energy policy — consumers. The amount of privilege and the appearance of power given to middle class individuals make them especially prone to versions of 'blame the victims.' When middle-class people become aware enough to question their own favorite narratives, their educational attainment becomes a greater resource for social change." 
Thalif Deen, News Report: Paradoxically, the water we "eat" is likely to become one of the growing new dangers to millions of the world's thirsty, hungering for this finite natural resource. "More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over one billion tons of food that nobody eats," Torgny Holmgren, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), told delegates during the opening of the annual international water conference, World Water Week, in the Swedish capital Monday. 
Bill Moyers, Op-Ed: It's just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what's happening to poor people. Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision – "out of sight, out of mind." And we're not speaking just of Paul Ryan and his Draconian budget plan or Mitt Romney and their fellow Republicans. Tipping their hats to America's impoverished while themselves seeking handouts from billionaires and corporations is a bad habit that includes President Obama, who of all people should know better. 
Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: The name of George W. Bush graces no chair at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. The 43rd president left behind monumental deficits and an economy in tatters. Republicans hold him responsible for the party's straying from its alleged small-government ethic. They want the public to forget the man. Thing is, the man wasn't the problem. His plan was the problem. And there is very little in the "new" Republican proposals that would change the plan. It's more tax cuts targeting the well-to-do, a bigger defense budget and less regulation. --
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