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PAULA DEEN, COOKING FOR SMITHFIELD

May 2007

You can’t get much syrupier or chirpier than Paula Deen. She’s the ebullient celebrity queen of Southern cooking, with a... Read more...

DECONSTRUCTING IRAQ'S RECONSTRUCTION

May 2007

George W keeps whining about it. “Buckshot” Cheney keeps growling about it. The “it” is the dastardly media’s scurrilous failure... Read more...

WHY IMPORT SO MUCH FOOD?

May 2007

People are upset. Their little Fidos and Fluffies are being poisoned by a chemical additive in pet food imported from... Read more...

WHO'S JOINING BUSH'S WAR?

May 2007

Remember the famous Army recruiting posters from World War II? They had a red-white-and-blue drawing of Uncle Sam pointing straight... Read more...

CEOs FIGHT CORPORATE DEMOCRACY

May 2007

Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100-miles an... Read more...

GREEN FORD?

May 2007

Ford Motor Company executives say they are going to make environmentally-sustainable, fuel-efficient, green cars! Again. Not “again” in the sense... Read more...

SLAMMING THE DOOR ON IRAQI REFUGEES

May 2007

George W keeps talking about America’s moral responsibility to help the people of Iraq. So… why is he slamming America’s... Read more...

MORE CORPORATE WAR AGAINST WORKERS

May 2007

Chicken Little is loose again. Loose in the White House, the congress and corporate America. The Chicken Littles are crying... Read more...

BUSH'S ZIG-ZAG WAR POLICY

May 2007

Have you noticed? The Bushites’ zig-zagging military policy in Iraq has taken another zig. Or is it a zag? It’s... Read more...

EARTH DINNER

May 2007

What’s for dinner at your place? How about having an earth dinner? Not that you’d eat earth, but that you... Read more...

STAMPING OUT THE FREE PRESS

May 2007

At last, Washington officials are doing something about the problem of corporate control of America’s media sources. Unfortunately, what they’re... Read more...

LIFE IN IRAQ

May 2007

According to the “Dick and George Show,” broadcast daily from the White House, things are really looking up in Iraq.... Read more...

DEMOCRACY V. ZIP CODE 10021

May 2007

The most popular zip code in America for politicians is 10021. This is the Upper East Side of Manhattan, home... Read more...

WANTED: WAR CZAR

April 2007

An unusual help-wanted ad has come out of Washington. It reads: WANTED: Full-time turnaround specialist to take charge of large... Read more...

ROMNEY GOES HUNTING… FOR VOTES

April 2007

When George Romney ran for president in 1968, he opposed the war in Vietnam. When it came out that he’d... Read more...

WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR BEES?

April 2007

Bees are dying. Dying all across America. Lots and lots of bees. Starting in Florida last fall, the great bee... Read more...

SHORTCHANGING OUR HURRICANE WATCH CENTER

April 2007

With Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the Walter Reed hospital scandal – maybe you thought that the incompetence of the Bushites... Read more...

STEALING AMERICA'S MIDDLE-CLASS

April 2007

It’s only 3,400 workers that Circuit City booted out the door, so what’s the big deal? Well, it’s not the... Read more...

THE STENCH OF CORPORATE WELFARE

April 2007

Big corporations seems to be doing awfully well these days, scooping up record profits, getting massive tax breaks from the... Read more...

THE INVADERS FROM AFAR

April 2007

Like something from a 1950s horror movie [eerie music], they came from afar, wriggling into our waterways, endangering our very... Read more...

TELL FDA WHAT YOU THINK!

April 2007

Would you like your eggs poached, fried, boiled… or irradiated? If the Bushites get their way, producers of some eggs,... Read more...

Circuit City's "Wage Management" Scam

April 2007

Corporations keep inventing Orwellian words of newspeak to disguise the nastiness of their continuous job cuts. For example, instead of... Read more...