Washington Liberals Blog

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...

The commons:  the case of cars and public transportation 0

The commons: the case of cars and public transportation

Someone from France told me she found it incredible that many American streets lack sidewalks. Here many communities are built for cars, not people.  This is especially true of suburbs, where pedestrian traffic is...

How the rich avoid taxes: Class Warfare 0

How the rich avoid taxes: Class Warfare

“One corporation paid $26,000 a year to maintain a post office box in Bermuda as its legal headquarters. That little trick saved them $40 million in corporate taxes…  If you raise these issues you...

Exactly who are the real moochers among us? 0

Exactly who are the real moochers among us?

So Mitt Romney thinks that 47 percent of us are moochers. Let’s keep in mind that Mr. Romney is only referring to the federal income tax. He disregards what comes out of each and...

Town Hall Seattle: Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism 0

Town Hall Seattle: Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Activist and economist Gar Alperovitz offers a diagnosis of what ails America, and prescribes what Noam Chomsky calls “concrete and...