Washington Liberals Blog

Duke energy's rip-off of the public 0

Duke energy's rip-off of the public

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...

Tax Rate Facts 1

Tax Rate Facts

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,...

Regressives 1

Regressives

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...

Foreclose on bankers and the 1% wankers 0

Foreclose on bankers and the 1% wankers

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…”

Quickie: Biased headline from SF Chronicle and Bloomberg News 0

Quickie: Biased headline from SF Chronicle and Bloomberg News

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...

Non-violent week of action with Occupy Seattle Peacefully 2

Non-violent week of action with Occupy Seattle Peacefully

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”...

Rocky Anderson's plans for the Justice Party 0

Rocky Anderson's plans for the Justice Party

Today the Justice Party sent out the following email to supporters. As you probably know, the newly created Justice Party is running Rocky Anderson for President this year. However, this is just the beginning...