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HELP STOP MOUNTAINTOP MINING MADNESS

November 2008

Industrial polluters are very skilled at perverting our language when they want to eliminate regulations that protect us and our... Read more...

BIG OIL’S CHARM OFFENSIVE

November 2008

Exxon Mobil wants you to know that it cares about poor African children. Several are featured in a recent TV... Read more...

PUBLIC WORKS, WORK

November 2008

Here’s an idea: Instead of wasting our tax money on Wall Street slicks who don’t use it to help anyone... Read more...

REAL CHANGE DEPENDS ON US

November 2008

Obama elected! Job done, right? Uh… not quite. If last week’s sweeping vote for change is to mean anything substantive,... Read more...

USDA IS PERVERTING THE MEANING OF "ORGANIC"

November 2008

Since I grew up eating such nutritionally-challenged foods as fried Spam sandwiches, I do not even pretend to be a... Read more...

ONE MOTHER MAKES A DIFFERENCE

November 2008

Ordinary Americans can make a big difference, even against great odds, when they dare to stand up and challenge The... Read more...

WHAT WE COULD DO WITH $700 BILLION

November 2008

With his usual keen insight, George W recently offered this comment about the Wall Street collapse: “Anyone who makes bad... Read more...

BLOOMBERG THUMBS NOSE AT PUBLIC

November 2008

Some politicians grow in office. Others merely bloat. You can mark down Michael Bloomberg as a bloater. He’s the billionaire... Read more...

WALL STREET BAILOUT GOES FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL

November 2008

Bailing out Wall Street billionaires is not exactly popular with voters, so Hank Paulson, George W’s treasury secretary, came up... Read more...

WANTED: A COMPETENT GOVERNMENT

November 2008

As we traipse merrily into our voting booths, let’s revisit the quaint notion that a government ought to be minimally... Read more...

REAL AMERICANS

October 2008

It hurts me deeply to say this, but here goes: I’m not a real American. Oh, I’m proud to live... Read more...

WHY ARE WE BAILING OUT EXTRAVAGANT EXECUTIVE PAY?

October 2008

Well, isn’t this special? Despite Washington’s assurance to us angry commoners that its Wall Street bailout scheme would, by gollies,... Read more...

A KNEE-JERK ATTACK ON POOR PEOPLE

October 2008

Guess who caused the financial crash. Greedhead bankers and Wall Street speculators? Nope. How about those boneheaded laissez-faire ideologues in... Read more...

MCCAIN’S VOTER FRAUD

October 2008

John McCain has gone from frantic to outright loopy. Not content to slime Barack Obama, he’s now going after ACORN... Read more...

GOOFS AND GOTCHAS

October 2008

Let’s take another trip into the Far, Far, FAR OUT World of Free Enterprise. Today, Spaceship Hightower takes you into... Read more...

SMALLER NEWSPAPERS, BIGGER CONGLOMERATES

October 2008

Daily newspapers are getting smaller and shallower. The shrinkage is not from a lack of news, but because the conglomerate... Read more...

FDA GIVES IN TO FOOD TORTURERS

October 2008

Why do food manufactures hate food? I’m not talking about farmers, food artisans, or local food enterprises – but about... Read more...

BILLIONAIRES GET SQUEEZED, TOO

October 2008

Time for another peek into to the “Lifestyles of the Rich … and Cranky.” Maybe you’re one of the millions... Read more...

BARONS OF MASS MEDIA IGNORE THE MASSES

October 2008

The MBAs and corporate bean counters who run America’s newspapers these days blame the internet, fickle advertisers, America’s education system,... Read more...

NAME THAT BANK!

October 2008

Advertising has been likened to whacking a metal bucket repeatedly with a stick. The noise can be used to attract…... Read more...

THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY SCAM

October 2008

Acting like a four-year-old, George W has squeezed his eyes tight and put his fingers in his ears, claiming that... Read more...

THE MYTH OF GEORGIAN DEMOCRACY

October 2008

I’ve got Georgia on my mind. Not “the peach state,” but the Republic of Georgia. This nation gained its 15-minutes... Read more...

WHO’S WHO IN THE BAILOUT GAME

October 2008

With bankruptcies, bailouts and forced mergers roiling Wall Street’s financial institutions, it’s hard to tell the players without a scorecard.... Read more...

MCCAIN, THE ANTI-MAVERICK

October 2008

John McCain keeps calling himself “a maverick” and is even calling the McCain-Palin ticket, “Maverick Squared.” Puh-leeze. It’s been my... Read more...

CREDIT CARDHOLDERS' BILL OF RIGHTS

October 2008

It’s hard to feel much love for bankers, but they’re sure not helping themselves right now. Even as they’ve been... Read more...