“A house doesn’t have to fall on my head to tell me a battle royal is brewing within the Catholic Church over the conservative hierarchy’s heavy-handed efforts to clamp down on dissenting Catholic voices. Not when a prominent American nun comes “this close†to calling the present Church leadership a bunch of brown-frocked fascists. Or…
Apparently by Jay Branscomb.
The mysterious disappearance of voting histories for 488 registered voters in Shelby County, Tennessee, discovered by Black Box Voting, attracted much attention and has been referred to the US Dept. of Justice for investigation by US Rep. Steve Cohen. Two important new developments: 1) An internal analysis conducted by the Tennessee Democratic Party and the…
It’s hard to know what to do in the current political environmental. Scanned a piece today on Climate and Capitalism website. This piece was a reaction to a favorable review of Derrick Jensen’s book Deep Green Resistance that ran on Canadian Dimension. Jensen seems to catch a lot of reactionary ink to his proposals to…
According to Peace Action’s Congressional Voting Record for last year’s session of Congress, only Senators Maria Cantwell (78%), Patty Murray (78%), Representatives Jim McDermott (74%), and Jay Inslee (57%) had respectable scores on issues related to war and military spending.  Rep. Dave Reichert had the worst record, scoring just 9%.  In the following chart, the…
Darcy Burner and Gen. Paul Eaton (ret) in Redmond, discussing the Responsible Plan to get out of Afghanistan. Sunday May 27, 2012
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Fuse Washington says:
http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle Currently, as I write this, they’re discussing how often to have General Assemblies and whether there should be a quorum (of 50?) for making decisions. They endlessly discuss process and how to make decisions. They bemoaned low turnout. I listened for about an hour. Sounds unproductive. Sometimes top-down, centralized, hierarchical organizations, with lots…
Republicans made sure that the economy would remain in the doldrums in order to prevent Obama from winning a second term. They opposed virtually every Obama proposal. “The most corrupt, evil, and petty sort of politics this town has seen since Newt Gingrich shut down the government and threw millions out of work because Bill…