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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report Who Pays? A distributional analysis of the tax systems in all 50 states shows just how regressive the tax system is, both nationally and, especially, in...
Occupy CEHKC, April 24-25 24-hours to change how Seattle sees homelessness Real Change, SHARE/WHEEL, and Nickelsville are calling upon the broader community to join us this April 24-25 in a 24-hour wake-up call to...
(Sure, the Repugs are worse, but that doesn’t excuse Obama from prosecuting the whistleblowers but not the torturers. If this news is accurate — and I assume it is — it is sickening indeed. ...
