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2012 East King County Candidate Forums 0

2012 East King County Candidate Forums

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...

Barack Obama's grand, ravaging bargain 0

Barack Obama's grand, ravaging bargain

“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...

Notes on the Washington Investment Trust Forum 0

Notes on the Washington Investment Trust Forum

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...

Greg Palast – How Billionaires Steal Elections 0

Greg Palast – How Billionaires Steal Elections

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...

On the myth that both sides are equally at fault 0

On the myth that both sides are equally at fault

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...

$1.6 trillion of military spending per year 0

$1.6 trillion of military spending per year

including $400 billion in interest payments on debt from prior wars. Where do 53% of your Tax dollars go? To fund the most enormous war machine the world has ever known.  Our defense budget...