Washington Liberals Blog
Inpsire Seattle social forum and potluck on March 31, topic: the execution of Troy Davis
InspireSeattle invites YOU to join us at our Social Forum and potluck:Â Saturday, March 31st at 6:30PM. Main discussion topic for this evening:Â TROY DAVIS: THE HUMAN FACE OF THE DEATH PENALTY We have...
Ellen Brown on how banks rip off municipalities via interest rate swaps
Excerpts from Ellen Brown’s WALL STREET CONFIDENCE TRICK: How “Interest Rate Swaps” Are Bankrupting Local Governments:  It was a deliberate, manipulated move by the Fed, acting to save the banks from their own folly in...
Link: Joel Connelly on 1st CD debate in Everett
The supplicants and the U.S. House seat Seattle P-I reporter Joel Connelly covers a debate among 1st CD candidates. Compare my review of an earlier 1st CD debate in Seattle: Darcy Burner and Roger...
Charter schools worse than public schools
David Sirota reports in Charter schools: No silver bullet: In recent years, major studies suggest that, on the whole, charter schools are producing worse educational achievement results than traditional public schools. For example, a...
Romney with his Etch A Sketch ™ in 2002 and 2012
On YouTube, RomneyRobot made this: And americanbridge21 made:
Vanguard founder and former CEO on the 99.9% versus the 0.1%
Vanguard founder and former CEOÂ John Bogle says: “We have one hell of a problem in this country, and it is not badly articulated by talking about the 99 percent and the 1 percent,...
Tonight : Vigil/Speakout Against Afghanistan Massacre, 5:30PM at Westlake Plaza in Seattle
Image from event (added evening of 2012/03/21) Tonight: Wednesday March 21 Speakout/Vigil @ 5:30pm Westlake Plaza ( 4th and Pine in downtown Seattle) Speakers: Joshua Simpson (Iraq war veteran and one of the founders...
Glenn Greenwald to speak at UW, Thurs April 5, 7 pm
The University of Washington Center for Human Rights and The Jackson School of International Studies present “Endless War and Civil Liberties Erosions in the Age of Terrorism†a lecture by Glenn Greenwald April 5,...