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Wall Street puts New York City cops on their payroll
“If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below...
Nov. 12, Seattle Town Hall – A Conversation about the future of the Occupy movement
Occupy Town Hall: A Conversation Saturday, November 12, 2011, 7:30 – 9:00pm The Occupy movement could be the most important political movement in a generation, or it could be a dud—it all depends on what happens...
Ron Paul as a lesser-of-evils Republican
Ron Paul is extreme and libertarian, but he gets some things right. According to the article Ron Paul slams Herman Cain’s media coverage, he said “I’m challenging the whole banking system, the military industrial...
Bernie Sanders sums it up
“In negotiation after negotiation, the Democrats continue to give the Republicans almost everything they want. Despite the fact that our deficit problems were caused by the greed on Wall Street which led to the...
Are progressives too hard on Obama?
In Assessing Obama’s “Peace” Moves author and journalist Robert Parry calls on progressives to view the withdraw from Iraq as a victory of the anti-war movement. The American Left is often hesitant to see...
Ellen Brown – Public Banks and Why We Need Them
From Brown’s October 26, 2011 talk at University of Washington.
Time to Close Corporate Tax Loopholes to Save Jobs
Last week our Governor released her “Budget Roadmap†for cutting another $2 to $4 billion from the State Budget. http://www.ofm.wa.gov/reductions/alternatives/all_budget_alternatives.pdf But Hoover proved long ago that we can not cut our way to prosperity....
Protect them, then blame them
President Obama wants to blame the Republicans for his inability to pass progressive legislation. Indeed the Republicans are bad news. But Obama bent over backwards to protect Republicans and their corporate allies from accountability...
House parties on Wed Nov 9 to overturn Citizens United
Free Speech for People, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, People for the American Way, and Common Caucus are jointly sponsoring house parties on Wednesday, November 9th, to work on the campaign for a Constitutional...