Posted in Corporate Oligarchy Economy Letters to Congress

President Obama: FIGHT Bush tax cuts for millionaires!

(I faxed this post to Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Bayh, Lugar, and Hill on November 19th, 2010.) Sign the petition demanding that Obama not cave to…

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Posted in Corporate Oligarchy Failure of American Journalism

JUST SAY NO TO THE NBC-COMCAST MERGER!

It is crystal clear that the greatest threat to the viability of our representative democracy is the concentration of ownership in the media industry. This…

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Posted in Economy Letters to Congress

What Has the Past 12 Years Done to America? Killed the Middle Class, for One Thing.

Many who look beyond the insane rhetoric of never ending lowered taxes for the super-rich, while insisting that Americans work until they drop dead rather…

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Posted in Current Events Failure of American Journalism

Reinstate Shirley Sherrod at USDA. Reject the Dog-Whistle Racism of the Radical Right

I just posted this note via the contact form at the White House, regarding the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA position. If…

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Posted in Separation Church and State

Juan Coal on Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers

Juan Cole, who regularly publishes some of the most commentary available on the Middle East on his blog, Informed Comment, has published one of the…

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