Wall Street puts New York City cops on their payroll

“If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It’s called the Paid Detail…

Bernie Sanders sums it up

“In negotiation after negotiation, the Democrats continue to give the Republicans almost everything they want.  Despite the fact that our deficit problems were caused by the greed on Wall Street which led to the current horrendous recession, huge tax breaks for the rich and two un-paid for wars, the President and the Democrats have gone…

Protect them, then blame them

President Obama wants to blame the Republicans for his inability to pass progressive legislation. Indeed the Republicans are bad news. But Obama bent over backwards to protect Republicans and their corporate allies from accountability for their many crimes. Rather than fight them, he coddled them, surrounded himself with Wall Street executives and Bush holdovers, and…

House parties on Wed Nov 9 to overturn Citizens United

Free Speech for People, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, People for the American Way, and Common Caucus are jointly sponsoring house parties on Wednesday, November 9th, to work on the campaign for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.  The parties will feature a nationwide conference call with U.S. Senator Bernie…