Washington Liberals Blog
Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson running for President
Rocky Anderson returns — this time shooting for president Disgusted with what he calls the corrupting influence of corporate money and militarism in politics, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is launching a...
Wall Street Journal opinion piece says: free market fundamentalism is losing
China’s Superior Economic Model The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash heap of history. “The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model—so successful in the 20th century—is being thrown onto the trash...
Contact Senators Murray and Cantwell about the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012
Friends, I called both Murray and Cantwell’s office this morning. Â The good news is that they both voted in favor of the Udall Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Thank them....
Why the 1% wins in Washington State
Republicans, “moderate” Dems, and their corporate allies manufactured a budget crisis by handing out tax giveaways to the rich, by wasting trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars, by widespread corruption, and by recklessly deregulating...
On The Emergence Of China, Or, Zhou Knew This Was Coming
After doing a bit of mountain hiking a few days back, I had a chance to get involved in a great afternoon conversation with the Alliance for American Manufacturing’s Mike Wessel, who also serves...
Can the Occupy Movement work with progressive Dems, Labor, and MoveOn?
Can the further Left (Occupiers, anarchists, and Socialists) work, in some fashion, with the nearer Left (progressive Democrats, Labor, and groups like MoveOn.org)? Can the Occupy Movement work with allies without feeling co-opted? [Note:...
Respect the state constitution and fully fund education
Did you know that our state constitution requires Washington to fully fund basic education? In fact, it calls it the state’s “paramount dutyâ€. Washington has the strongest language of any state when it comes...