Washington Liberals

The ballot box just isn’t working for the 99%. 12 years of electoral politics have done nothing to stop the alarming erosion of the very foundations of our nation. Time and again our choices...

from the beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom.

Five hundred thousand dollars a minute. That’s not a figure about government spending or global banking transfers. That’s the latest outrageous payout to a corporate CEO. Bill Johnson was CEO of Duke Energy for...

Washington Post has a story on tax rates. I know that a lot of people will think that the low tax rates are a good thing, and they may be in a few ways,...

In The Truth About Obama’s Tax Proposal (and the Lies the Regressives are Telling About It), Robert Reich uses the word “regressives” to refer to our ideological opponents, who are often called “conservatives.” But...

The 99% forecloses on Wells Fargo: “We showed up at Wells Fargo HQ in Seattle with one mission: foreclose on Wells Fargo with our posse. This is what happened next…”

Biased headline: “Democrats Risk Fiscal Cliff by Targeting Top Earners’ Break“   The article discusses President Obama’s threat to allow the automatic cuts to take place if the Republicans don’t agree to end the Bush-era...

 I look forward to the day when corporations are free to marry whomever they want – even including other corporations (or would that simply be a corporate merger?). When will we learn to accept...

Bring the Fight to the Banks Week of Action Schedule Hosted by Occupy Seattle Peacefully [The suffix “Peacefully” is necessary to thwart the Black Bloc from engaging in violence — aka “diversity of tactics”...