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A criminal gang has taken power. They’ve stolen elections; corrupted campaign financing; started illegal wars; tortured;Â held innocent prisoners without trial;Â invaded the privacy of Americans;Â politicized Justice; packed the Courts; reversed decades of...
Robert Greenwald’s hard-hitting video indictment of KBR and other military contractors was banned by Congress in 2007. It documents private employees making six figure salaries, staying in lavish resorts, and charging the US taxpayers...
A King County Department of Transportation employee responded by email to some of the points I made in last week’s blog post about the hearings in Kirkland concerning the $20 congestion fee to save...
(Originally published for a national audience at OpEdnews. Washington State readers may want to skip the first half.) Dennis Kucinich’s Ohio congressional district is being redistricted, so Kucinich has been visiting Washington State over...
Joel Connelly attended the NW Roots conference in Seattle yesterday and wrote these two articles about it: Inslee takes the edge off controversial idea and Red meat from a vegan — Kucinich. The second...
This month’s American Prospect has an article about the defeat of anti-tax initiatives A60, A61, and Prop 101 by more than 68% in Colorado State and about the Colorado Progressive Coalition‘s role in that...
July 7, 2011. Washington, D.C. In a hastily called press conference, President Obama announced his decision Thursday evening to sever formal ties with the Democratic Party and become an Independent. With Senator Joseph Lieberman...
Wednesday evening I attended a public meeting, in Kirkland, of the county Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee. The topic was the proposed cuts in bus and trolley service and the $20 “congestion fee” that...
Here’s a bipartisan effort, with support from libertarians as well as progressives, to end America’s addiction to war and violence. Specifically, it calls on a speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan. http://www.comehomeamerica.us/ Check out the list...
ProgressiveCongress.org and Progressive Action Fund are sponsoring a public event on July 23 at South Seattle Community College. Here is their blurb (copied from a pdf file they sent): It’s not often that lawmakers...
