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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010From Huffington Post:
Amid the recession and the cold winter months, Cynthia Magnus made a shocking discovery at the H&M in Manhattan’s Herald Square. It wasn’t a sale on the season’s hottest trends–it was garbage bags upon garbage bags of unsold merchandise, most of it slashed with razors to ensure that no one would ever wear [...]
Is It Time To Start Boycotting Whole Foods?
Monday, January 4th, 2010From Huffington Post:
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods: “No scientific consensus exists” re Climate Change.
I’ve been a big fan of Whole Foods’s CEO John Mackey for years.
I’ve talked with him twice on behalf of my elephant journal, and he’s agreed to an interview (which would sit nicely along our “Walk the Talk Show” videos with [...]
Dennis Hastert Still Receives $40,000 A Month From Taxpayers
Monday, December 21st, 2009From Politico:
U.S. taxpayers are spending more than $40,000 per month on office space, staff, cell phones and a leased SUV for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, even as he works as a lobbyist for private corporations and foreign governments.
The payments are perfectly legal under a federal law that provides five years of benefits for former [...]
Reid Says Yes To The Public Option
Monday, October 26th, 2009From The Huffington Post:
Reid has been pushing the so-called opt-out public option for the last several days and has spoken to nearly all 60 members of the Democratic caucus. He needs 60 votes to end an expected Republican filibuster and move the bill to the floor.
“We’ve spent countless hours over the last few days in [...]
So Much For Liberal Media Bias
Sunday, October 25th, 2009“I think when an office in any department finds that a newspaper is pursuing a course calculated to embarrass his operations and stir up sedition and tumult, he has the right to lay hands upon it and suppress it, but in no other case.”
Abraham Lincoln
From Media Matters:
The first year of Barack [...]
Public Option Picking Up Steam With Americans. But Does It Really Matter?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009From The Washington Post:
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.
Americans remain sharply divided about the overall packages moving closer to votes in Congress and President Obama’s leadership on the [...]
Damn You All To Nobel: Obama Increases Military Presence In Afghanistan
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009From The Washington Post:
President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized — and the Pentagon is deploying — at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials.
The additional troops are primarily support forces, including engineers, [...]
Afghanistan May Keep Obama From Transformative Change At Home
Monday, October 12th, 2009If the Afghan war then becomes the consuming issue of Obama’s presidency – as Iraq became for his predecessor, as Vietnam did for Lyndon Johnson, and as Korea did for Harry Truman – the inevitable effect will be to compromise the prospects of reform more broadly.
From Common Dreams:
No serious person thinks that Afghanistan – remote, [...]
Thou Shalt Not Drink Diet Pepsi
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009From Raw Story:
A group that advocates “traditional family values” claims it has the signatures of 500,000 people who have pledged to boycott Pepsi over what it says are the company’s activities promoting gay rights.
The American Family Association, which boasts “2.5 million online supporters,” “asked PepsiCo to be neutral in the culture war and not support [...]
Bush Administration Blocked Efforts To Prevent Housing Crisis
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009From Raw Story:
Federal regulators in the Bush administration blocked attempts by state governments to prevent predatory lending practices that resulted in the financial crisis now stalking the American economy, a new study from the University of North Carolina says.
In 2004, the Office of the Currency Comptroller, an obscure regulatory agency tasked with ensuring the fiscal [...]
Apple Quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce Over Its Denial Of Global Warming
Monday, October 5th, 2009From Think Progress:
There has recently been a “business backlash” against the Chamber of Commerce over its refusal to accept the science of global warming and lobbying against climate change legislation. The New York Times reports today that the latest company to join this backlash is Apple, which wrote in a letter to the Chamber that [...]
The Politics Of Spite
Monday, October 5th, 2009“The modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.”
From New York Times:
By Paul Krugman
There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago’s bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games.
“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters [...]
Time For Citizens To Convene
Monday, September 28th, 2009From Common Dreams:
By Ralph Nader
Just when many conditions seemed ripe for a progressive political movement, the likelihood is fading fast. Concentrated corporate power over our political economy and its control over peoples lives knows few boundaries.
As Republican investor advocate leader Robert Monks puts it: “The United States is a corporatist state. This means that individuals [...]
In Defense Of ACORN
Friday, September 18th, 2009From Common Dreams:
By Joe Conason
For many years the combined forces of the far right and the Republican Party have sought to ruin ACORN, the largest organization of poor and working families in America. Owing to the idiocy of a few ACORN employees, notoriously caught in a videotape “sting” sponsored by a conservative Web site and [...]
Majority Of Doctors Favor Public Option
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009From The Huffington Post:
A new study finds that a majority of physicians support the creation of a public health care option.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) study published in Monday’s New England Journal of Medicine shows that 63 percent of physicians support a health reform proposal that includes both a public option and traditional private [...]