Celebrating two years of corporate rule under the terms dictated by Citizens...
It’s been two years since the Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case, giving corporations the ability to spend unprecedented amounts of money to influence American elections. Here, with some...
View ArticleTonight’s Sate of the Union address
I’m listing to the President’s State of the Union address right now, and wondering how in the hell any of the Republicans currently fighting for their party’s nomination think they’ve got a realistic...
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Ben Cohen on Occupy, independent business networks, and defacing currency to...
I had the opportunity yesterday, at the BALLE conference, to hear ice cream magnate Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry’s fame, talking about the point of intersection where the local business movement, Occupy...
View ArticleRepublicans use most recent JPMorgan scandal to demonstrate folly of...
There’s a great piece in the Washington Post today about Republicans in the Senate, and how they seem determined to focus their wrath not on the individuals at JPMorgan who were recently caught...
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Koch brothers, with Citizens United behind them, announce their intention to...
According to a new report in Politico, the Koch brothers, through their various front organizations, are set to funnel $400 million of their personal wealth into this year’s presidential campaign. It’s...
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What does Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin mean?
To all of my friends in Wisconsin who didn’t vote yesterday, I hate you.Not only are you responsible for keeping the unabashed corporate shill Scott Walker in office, but, more importantly, you’re...
View ArticleWinning in November isn’t enough, says Van Jones. We also have to mobilize...
I know he’s a big hero to many on the left, but Van Jones sometimes rubs me the wrong way. He’s too smiley, or something. Maybe it’s a reaction to having been taken in by John Edwards, but I now prefer...
View ArticleBill Moyers on the Supreme Court’s decision not to revisit Citizens United
Bill Moyers, if you haven’t seen it yet, shared a great essay a few days ago, on the Citizen’s United decision, which gave corporations and wealthy individuals the go-ahead to invest unlimited sums of...
View ArticleWe need to come together the same way we did when we crushed SOPA, and pass...
As of right now, it looks as though the DISCLOSE Act is set to go before the Senate for a cloture vote on Monday afternoon. If you haven’t done so already, I’d appreciate it if you would join me in...
View ArticleCalling what happened during Michigan’s lame duck session “very, very bad,”...
As we recently discussed, Michigan Radio, as part of their Issues & Ale series, hosted a panel discussion in Ypsilanti late last week on the subject of Michigan’s newly passed right-to-work...
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Robert Reich on income inequality, his new film, and the need to get money...
For those of you without access to public television, Bill Moyers celebrated the fifth anniversary of “the fiscal meltdown that almost tanked the world economy” a few days ago by speaking with my hero,...
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How Big Money and Big Media Undermine Democracy
I have very little to add in the way of comment, but I wanted to let all of you know that Bill Moyers just interviewed John Nichols and Robert McChesney, the authors of the new book Dollarocracy: How...
View ArticleA super PAC to end all super PACs… Contribute to Mayday PAC today, and help...
Having spent much of his life attempting to change America’s “creativity choking” copyright system only to be rebuffed at every turn by entrenched special interests, Harvard law professor Lawrence...
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Mitch McConnell promises to hand the government over to corporate America if...
Every summer, at about this time, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch apparently shine the sign of the relentlessly sucking vampire squid onto the dark, steely clouds above Gotham and call...
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Could this impending battle over the Supreme Court tear our nation apart?
I was thinking today about the little events that influence global politics, and all of our lives. Had Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car not taken a wrong turn at the junction of Appel quay and...
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Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids...
Endearingly disheveled hero of the American left, Senator Bernie Sanders, made his way through Michigan today, pumping up crowds on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run up to...
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This Monday, Betsy DeVos is likely to be handed the Department of Education...
I can’t say for certain whether or not the dollar amounts indicated on this chart, which was floating around the internet today, are absolutely accurate, but, from what I know about DeVos, and what she...
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This is the galvanizing moment we’ve been waiting for… Democratic Senators...
[above: Photo by Evan Sutton from today’s protest in D.C. against embattled Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos.] The Senate vote on Betsy DeVos, the pyramid scheme billionaire turned...
View ArticleUnbreaking America: focusing on popular nonpartisan state ballot initiatives...
I have issues with the nonpartisan political action group RepresentUs. I don’t like, for instance, that, at their upcoming “Unrig Summit” in Nashville, their speakers are going to include the likes of...
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I’m endorsing Elizabeth Warren for President of the United States
My intention was to wait another year or so before calling a press conference and formally endorsing a candidate for president, but, when I saw this thread of comments today from Senator Elizabeth...
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