Washington Liberals

The world’s top 7 military spenders in 2010 The US Spends more on the military than the next 15 countries combined, and it spends 43% of the world total. Figures from the SIPRI Yearbook...

Retired US Navy Commander Faces Jail Over Interruption of Super Committee Hearing Bolger disrupted a public hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the Super Committee, last October. “All...

Budget deal said to be 2 minutes from agreement

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report Who Pays? A distributional analysis of the tax systems in all 50 states shows just how regressive the tax system is, both nationally and, especially, in...

The Washington state legislature is still engrossed in a special Session.  The House passed a budget yesterday that avoided major cuts to education, but kept the new proposed accounting system for sales-tax receipts collected on...

Occupy CEHKC, April 24-25 24-hours to change how Seattle sees homelessness Real Change, SHARE/WHEEL, and Nickelsville are calling upon the broader community to join us this April 24-25 in a 24-hour wake-up call to...

(Sure, the Repugs are worse, but that doesn’t excuse Obama from prosecuting the whistleblowers but not the torturers.  If this news is accurate — and I assume it is — it is sickening indeed. ...

The News Tribune is reporting Zarelli draws federal disability, eyes state cuts A Washington [State] lawmaker has been drawing thousands of dollars in disability payments each year while leading efforts to eliminate benefits the state...

New Bush-Era Torture Memo Released, Raises Questions About What Has Changed And What Hasn’t

and looking forward to the predicted drop in pollution! Here is the frame: In 1972 a bunch of computer nerds were commissioned by the Club of Rome to complete computer modeling of finite resources,...