Washington Liberals

Koch Industries has pattern of violating ethics, environmental laws

Think Progress is reporting: Democrat To Offer A ‘Lifeline’ For Single-Payer Health Care. “Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds they’re receiving through Medicare, Medicaid,...

WSJ’s Market Watch reports: Obama spending binge never happened Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s  WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is...

We have a lot of public heroes. We tend to think of the firefighters, EMTs and police who arrive at an accident, save lives, care for the injured, and clean up the mess. But...

Occupy Canada: reports: From Occupy Frankfurt. May 19, 2012. The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protest clearing the way for them. Thought you may like to have this image...

Our efforts worked:  People for the American Way is reporting: “Huge news! Amazon.com is now the 16th major corporation to cut ties to the American Legislative Council (ALEC), according to reports.” Local and national...

Originally published by CounterPunch – Editor Jeffery St Clair http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/07/hedges-vs-the-black-bloc-round-two/ by MARK TAYLOR-CANFIELD A recent article by Chris Hedges is once again causing heated arguments among activists in the Occupy Wall Street movement.  “Black...

Four hundred and eighty-eight voters, all but four lifelong Democrats, and nearly all Black, had their voting history erased by Shelby County (TN) election workers, setting them up for purge from the voter list....

WHEREAS the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker,  has been invited to give the keynote speech at the 2012 WA State Democratic Convention gala event; and   WHEREAS the Obama campaign has recently...

I am pretty excited about having Michael Parenti do the keynote speaking event for the Fourth People’s Movement Assembly. Will post more about that soon, but for now, just want to share this Parenti...