Washington Liberals

The theatre that TV Election Night news coverage has become takes one more step into the absurd with cancellation of exit poll data in 19 states. The states that will be excluded from detailed exit poll coverage are: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island,…

Upcoming Action:  What: Foreclosure Auction Disruption. When: 9:00 AM – noon, Friday, Sept. 28. Where: Meet at SAFE’s office at Bethany (corner Beacon Ave. S and Graham St.). How: Noise-makers, signs. Why: To demand a moratorium on all bank evictions. Target: Routh Crabtree Olsen, aka, Northwest Trustee Services in Bellevue.  (SAFE will provide transportation.) The banks —…

Lately your intrepid correspondent has been amazed by the increasing number of local and national insurrections taking place across the planet. Yes, most of these uprisings are currently being kept down by repressive regimes using riot police and tear gas, but nonetheless, they continue to pop up on every continent from Indonesia to Montreal. You’ll…

I promised you I would give you a schedule of this fall’s campaign forums when they were all arranged in case any of you have the time to attend any of them. There are six forums this year. Two are in Issaquah, two in Maple Valley, one on Snoqualmie Ridge and one in Bellevue. Most…

“In exchange for ravaging the most popular and successful programs Democrats have ever produced, and for a vital chunk of nearly every American’s retirement savings, Barack Obama’s grand bargain would have meant accepting an entire economic philosophy diametrically opposed to the one he had run on. For the most basic principles of public life to…

Co-authored with John Repp, both members of Washington Public Bank Project For those of you unable to attend the forum last Thursday, Sept 27, 2012 sponsored by PSARA -“Would a State Investment Trust (AKA a public bank) Benefit the People of Washington”? We submit here our notes and comments. The forum was very well attended. Interest…

In this video, Greg Palast talks about his book Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, where he teams with fiery editorial cartoonist Ted Rall to name and shame the billionaires buying up our democracy, and the disenfranchisement of millions through voter-ID laws, list purges, and other assaults to our civil rights. http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/series/pirate-television-web-version/episode/greg-palast-how-billionaires-steal-elections-web

A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) – Congress’s nonpartisan research arm – touched a nerve among free-market ideologues, who reacted to the wonky policy brief by accusing CRS of partisanship and calling their analysis into question. But politicians from both parties, as well as these same ideologues, often cite CRS data and…

From FAIR‘s Ted Koppel’s Terrible Media Criticism:  KOPPEL: The bifurcation is really extreme. I mean, the left is further left and the right is further right. MAHER: The left is not further left. The left is further right. See, this is the problem that the media makes. The left is not further left. The Republicans…