Memo to Rick Perry
Your state is on fire, the drought is causing rivers and lakes to dry up and that could go on for a long time. Meanwhile, ice shelves in Canada are collapsing faster than expected...
Washington Liberals Blog
Are things bad enough yet?
With good reason, lots of people are really upset about what has happened to our country over the past decade: torture, war-mongering, corruption, willful mismanagement, election fraud, socialism for the rich, outsourcing of jobs...
Quickie: Great, disturbing coverage (of the coverage) of the Wall Street protests
Some Breaks in the Blackout of Wall Street Protests
How can WA Dems pressure Senator Murray to stand firm?
I’ve heard from several activists that their efforts to talk to Senator Murray and her staff are having little success I’m a member of the Healthy WA Coalition, along with about 100 groups, and...
Quickie: Bush barred from Canada
Last week, Bush was forced to cancel a fundraising appearance in Toronto, Canada at Tyndale University College and Seminary, an evangelical Christian school. Students and faculty members protested and petitioned to keep him away...
Paul Craig Robert's "Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy"
From Counterpunch, by Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Economic policy failed for three reasons:Â (1) policymakers focused on enabling...
Quickie from Democracy Now
The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting concludes that between $31 billion and $60 billion spent on projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years has been lost to waste and fraud. A...
Quickie: This slow bleed can't continue
The corruption, the injustice, the criminality, the war-mongering, the torture, the mismanagement, the stupidity, the level of unemployment, the concentration of wealth, and the lack of accountability have reached a point where society seems...