Et tu, Obama?
On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court's elevation of Big Money over people by okaying the creation of his own SuperPAC, Priorities USA Action. His rationale was that he could... Read more...
The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries–and what they want in return
Seven super-rich men, five SuperPACs, $40 million
Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America's most useful citizens, to sum up our country's present political plight in a succinct metaphor: "Our electio... Read more...
The Stratfor File
What:
Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain confidential information and conduct spy-ops against groups of citizen activists at the req... Read more...
Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders– and pay for the corporatization of war itself
A corporate "foreign legion" has taken over America's intelligence and military functions
On the last day of last year, Austin's daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an "Internet Privac... Read more...
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
To get America moving, the People must lead. Join the action!
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for t... Read more...
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months
This is a real populist movement--against our financial and political plutocracy
Americans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: "You know you're on target when you start getting a ... Read more...
Citizens united against Citizens United: A grassroots campaign to restore democracy
We the People declare independence from corporate rule
Thank you Mitt Romney! Thank you for standing tall, speaking so forthrightly, and rallying so many democracy-loving Americans to join together i... Read more...
Who is the Tea Party Congress?
Seems like this would be an easy question to answer, but it turns out that we could find no group, including the tea party’s own organizations, that has made a complete list, or at least they’ve not made one pu... Read more...
It’s time to name the tea party politicians (and their sponsors)–and call them out
In just one year, the tea party went from hating billionaires to fronting for them
As he keeps demonstrating, President Obama is not exactly Mount Rushmore material. But -- good God! -- the petulant ... Read more...
Why are we letting corporate Supremists steal our democracy from us?
Roberts. Alito. Kennedy. Scalia. Thomas. Memorize these names!
Bill Watterson is Mark Twain--with a drawing pen. He is a master cartoonist, but also a sharp-witted observer of the absurd, with an imp... Read more...
Summertime Lowdown: A picnic basket of absurdities, oddities, and some sweet positives
Presidential candidates, goofy governors, Fox TV, the Kochs, sex, etc...
It's frightening to watch the Texas legislature in action, but it can also be entertaining--in the same way a freak show draws... Read more...
Billionaires’ front groups attack workers, public schools, and young voters
This is class war--part 2
In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They were part of an outpouring of Hoosiers... Read more...
A battery of elected ideologues opens fire on those who serve the public
This is class war!
You're not likely to have known Robert Clark, Ruth West, Chet Newall, Webb Kamp, or Darrell Odom, but I wouldn't be who I am without them. And you might have a similar honor roll o... Read more...
The Big Three secret funders of the $75 million campaign to trash Democratic candidates
Corporate "mystery money" makes a mockery of our democracy
It's unlikely that you have heard of a novel entitled Alpaca, but it was a remarkably portentous piece of political writing by one of Americ... Read more...
Here’s who is buying America’s democracy
Logo Lowdown from the 2010 elections. Part 1--donors on the record
In 1986, Richard Kimball, a Democratic state legislator in Arizona, was running for a US Senate seat. In a televised debate, he did ... Read more...
The entire court system is infested
Unfortunately, the corporatization of America's judiciary is not just a problem at the top. For more than 30 years, there has been a concerted effort by such ultra-wealthy corporate supremists as the Kochs, Sca... Read more...
The top four victories handed to corporate America by today’s Supreme Court–so far
Judges gone wild! Enthroning corporations over people
One of the great works of American political literature is Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, first published in 1906. From A-Z, Bierce off... Read more...
A new Wall Street sin tax could raise $100B a year to reinvest in Main Street America
Where's the audacity, the fairness... the money?
Lonnie Johnson was the early blues and jazz great who turned the guitar into a solo instrument. In the 1920s, he pioneered improvisational guitar piec... Read more...
Postcards from the frontroads and backroads of the 2010 election campaigns
Corporate money won, but progressives did not lose
The day before the election, I sensed a strange karma, as though some diabolical political force was settling across the country like a heavy, almos... Read more...
The corporate squeeze
Profits up!" gloat today's headlines in the business media. The New York Times reports that the profits of 175 of America's big- gest corporations have soared by a whopping 42 percent this year. The 500 largest... Read more...
Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs. Obama fiddles.
In the past two years 55 percent of workers have lost a job or taken a cut
By gollies, when the economic going gets toughfor America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded politi... Read more...
Big biz wants to own the information superhighway while We the People bump along the backroads
The fight for net neutrality
In the 1970s, Lily Tomlin developed an iconic comic character she named Ernestine--a telephone clerk who took perverse pleasure from hectoring customers. Her character wa... Read more...
300 ex-Congress critters are among the hired guns who kill progressive reforms
Washington besieged by an occupying force of corporate lobbyists
Change. That's what Americans want. We the People--a.k.a. the body politic, the majority, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi, "us"--ha... Read more...
Full text of Justice John Paul Stevens
Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg , Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor join, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
The real issue in this case concerns how, not if, the appellant may financ... Read more...
Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice
The Supreme Court's black-robed coup
"For too long," wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, "some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process."
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