RootsAction writes: “Mr President: Watch This Video. It’s been decades since the Cold War ended, yet our country still has 450 U.S. inter-continental ballistic missiles deployed and ready to fire at Russia on a moment’s notice. The Russian people are not our enemy. Their dancing – and this video – inspires us.”

Tonight, in association with MoveOn.org, I’ll be attending a 99% Spring training session.  I got an email from the organizers with a link to their training materials, including this PDF:  The 99% Spring Training Guide.  I’m impressed. It’s well-written, attractively designed and full of documented information from multiple sources about non-violent direct action and other…

Dennis Kucinich appeared in Des Moines, WA on April 12, 2012 at a forum on “The Threat to Social Security: An Issue for All Generations.“  Photos and video excerpts are below. Other speakers at the forum were Pramila Jayapal, Executive Director, One America; Marilyn Watkins, Policy Director, Economic Opportunity Institute; and Magdaleno Rose-Avila, Executive Director, The Latino…

I asked the 26 year old unemployed son of a friend to help out with some yard work. While working, we got to discussing politics. He said, “I heard that Obama wants gas prices to be high so that people will drive less.” I tried to explain that that’s nonsense. Later, when discussing taxation he…

State Integrity Investigation (http://www.stateintegrity.org) has rated the 50 states on corruption risk. Washington State has gotten a score of B- on the Corruption Risk Report Card. Overall grade B- 83% Rank among 50 states 3 Click a category to see detailed scores and notes. Public Access to Information B- Political Financing C+ Executive Accountability B-…

The Christian Science Monitor is reporting, in Buffett Rule: Could it backfire on Democrats?, “Democrats are campaigning for the Buffett Rule, which would ensure millionaires pay federal taxes at a higher tax rate. But polls show ‘fairness’ doesn’t motivate key independent voters.” Among voters without a strongly held opinion of either Mr. Romney or Obama, 80…

AlterNet published an article by Peter Van Buren, I Had to Tell the Truth About Iraq–Even Though it Cost Me My Career. The author, who worked for the State Department at a forward operating base in Iraq, says, “the space between what we were doing (the eye-watering waste and mismanagement), and what we were saying…

From MoveOn.org

The world’s top 7 military spenders in 2010 The US Spends more on the military than the next 15 countries combined, and it spends 43% of the world total. Figures from the SIPRI Yearbook 2011. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures)

Retired US Navy Commander Faces Jail Over Interruption of Super Committee Hearing Bolger disrupted a public hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the Super Committee, last October. “All this obfuscation, with percentages of GDP, this is just trying to confuse the issue,” Bolger said at the hearing, interrupting the…