Brand name riggers of the justice system March 2013Practically every national brand name you’ve ever heard of now slips predatory arbitration provisions into their customer terms-of-service agreements and/or...
A third way March 2013You don’t hear much about it, but there is another path to justice for some consumers who’ve been wronged by...
Corporate kangaroo courts have quietly usurped our constitutional right to trial by judge and jury March 2013Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but getting your day in court is no picnic either. Aside from...
Are drones watching you? February 2013Find out here. Are your local or state police using drones? Which ones? How many? At what cost? For what purpose?...
The drone-industrial complex wants 30,000 eyes in the sky spying on us Americans by 2020 February 2013If you drive west from Marfa, Texas toward El Paso, you’ll cross some 200 miles of uniquely beautiful desert valleys...
Five ways we can make government work for We the People in 2013 January 2013for nearly 13 years now, and while we offer a lot of information in our four pages, we often hear...
America’s new political landscape December 2012FOX TV YAKKER Bill O’Reilly was a sad old man on election night. “The white establishment is now the minority,” he...
The boss man gets bossier December 2012CITIZENS UNITED not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses...
Wall Street, the Kochs, and Rove lost to the people– so let’s make Washington govern for the people December 2012As I learned from experience in my “vote-for-me” period, the nature of the political scramble is this: You win some,...
In this season of feasting, let’s celebrate real food and reject gene-tinkered tomatoes and cloned cows EMAIL TO A FRIEND PRINT THIS! DISCUSS THIS November 2012In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaignthat came tantalizingly close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl...
Mitt’s Millionaire Club October 2012During his infamous, surreptitiously videotaped, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Florida, Romney was full of disdain for poor people “who pay no...
The Big Three Myths fabricated by right wing fabulists to frame America’s elections October 2012During the past several years, a mess of plutocratic myths has been growing like kudzu across our political landscape. This aggressive...
The Rachel alternative September 2012“Michiganistan” is a huge national story with profound consequences for America’s historic ideal of being a self-governing people, the very...
Guided by the Koch brothers, Republicans have installed czars to run Michigan’s cities September 2012Here’s a political storyline that might seem familiar to you: With economic pain and political discord ripping across the land, he appeared...
Why Congress is so popular August 2012Demonstrating the depth of his insight into the problems of low-wage workers, GOP Rep. Bill Young of Florida recently “discussed” the...
The minimum wage is a disgrace, and raising it would be a boon to the whole economy August 2012Sometimes, it’s useful to state the obvious. Here’s a fact, for example, that we all know to be true: America’s economy...
“Fracking” by any other name… July 2012You’ll be pleased to know that academics at such public-spirited institutions as Louisiana State University are dealing with the problem...
A fracking Obamination July 2012doing awfully well these days with their supposed “enemy” Barack Obama. The industry appeared to lose a round to opponents...
Oil and gas marauders are destroying our land, water, and communities all over America July 2012Whether you’re religious or not, seeing flames coming out of your kitchen faucet would be enough to make you fall to...
Et tu, Obama? June 2012On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying...
The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries–and what they want in return June 2012Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct...
A real reform May 2012What if drug marketers had to tell us the details of every under-the-table payment (aka bribes) that they make to...
The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery May 2012Butterflies waft across a beautiful field of spring flowers. A delightful young family bicycles joyously down a country lane. A couple...
The Stratfor File April 2012What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain...
Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders– and pay for the corporatization of war itself April 2012On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”...
