corporate greed

Here’s who is buying America’s democracy

April 2013

The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’... Read more...

Brand name riggers of the justice system

March 2013

Practically every national brand name you’ve ever heard of now slips predatory arbitration provisions into their customer terms-of-service agreements and/or... Read more...

A third way

March 2013

You don’t hear much about it, but there is another path to justice for some consumers who’ve been wronged by... Read more...

Corporate kangaroo courts have quietly usurped our constitutional right to trial by judge and jury

March 2013

Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but getting your day in court is no picnic either. Aside from... Read more...

Are drones watching you?

February 2013

Find out here. Are your local or state police using drones? Which ones? How many? At what cost? For what purpose?... Read more...

The drone-industrial complex wants 30,000 eyes in the sky spying on us Americans by 2020

February 2013

If you drive west from Marfa, Texas toward El Paso, you’ll cross some 200 miles of uniquely beautiful desert valleys... Read more...

The boss man gets bossier

December 2012

CITIZENS UNITED not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses... Read more...

Wall Street, the Kochs, and Rove lost to the people– so let’s make Washington govern for the people

December 2012

As I learned from experience in my “vote-for-me” period, the nature of the political scramble is this: You win some,... Read more...

Mitt’s Millionaire Club

October 2012

During his infamous, surreptitiously videotaped, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Florida, Romney was full of disdain for poor people “who pay no... Read more...

The Big Three Myths fabricated by right wing fabulists to frame America’s elections

October 2012

During the past several years, a mess of plutocratic myths has been growing like kudzu across our political landscape. This aggressive... Read more...

Why Congress is so popular

August 2012

Demonstrating the depth of his insight into the problems of low-wage workers, GOP Rep. Bill Young of Florida recently “discussed” the... Read more...

The minimum wage is a disgrace, and raising it would be a boon to the whole economy

August 2012

Sometimes, it’s useful to state the obvious. Here’s a fact, for example, that we all know to be true: America’s economy... Read more...

“Fracking” by any other name…

July 2012

You’ll be pleased to know that academics at such public-spirited institutions as Louisiana State University are dealing with the problem... Read more...

A fracking Obamination

July 2012

doing awfully well these days with their supposed “enemy” Barack Obama. The industry appeared to lose a round to opponents... Read more...

Oil and gas marauders are destroying our land, water, and communities all over America

July 2012

Whether you’re religious or not, seeing flames coming out of your kitchen faucet would be enough to make you fall to... Read more...

Et tu, Obama?

June 2012

On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying... Read more...

The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries–and what they want in return

June 2012

Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct... Read more...

A real reform

May 2012

What if drug marketers had to tell us the details of every under-the-table payment (aka bribes) that they make to... Read more...

The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery

May 2012

Butterflies waft across a beautiful field of spring flowers. A delightful young family bicycles joyously down a country lane. A couple... Read more...

The Stratfor File

April 2012

What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain... Read more...

Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders– and pay for the corporatization of war itself

April 2012

On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”... Read more...

Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood–the cooperative movement shows us how

January 2012

We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around... Read more...

Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America

December 2011

“We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide... Read more...

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months

November 2011

Americans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: “You know you’re on target when you start getting... Read more...

Citizens united against Citizens United: A grassroots campaign to restore democracy

October 2011

Thank you Mitt Romney! Thank you for standing tall, speaking so forthrightly, and rallying so many democracy-loving Americans to join together... Read more...