Mother Earth - Gaia -Bundu: On life support, precious, fertile womb shredded,...
Apex-predators, archons, warmongers, vulturesUnleash mayhem, crush, grind, cannibalizeDark, deadly deeds mock sunrays, jest at moonlightWhole societies oppressed, harvest inequality, hate, chaos,...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren to Propose Wealth Tax
As AOC proposes a 70% income tax on income over $10,000,000, and decries as immoral a system that creates a few billionaires and many impoverished, Senator Elizabeth Warren is adding to the discourse...
View ArticleAOC: A System that Allows for a Few Billionaires while Many Suffer Is Immoral.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has an ability to boil down essential points into ways people understand. The congresswoman known as “AOC”— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — once...
View ArticleTonight I Weep
Tonight.'We" the minority of GOP voters have allowed our fear, our hate, our misogamy, our evangelical religion, our xenophobia, our racism, our Randian belief in corporate gods, our guns, our greed to...
View ArticleRev. Barber on "the twin forces of white supremacy and unchecked corporate...
Rev. Barber is leading a new Poor People’s Campaign. In an article on Think Progress he talks about the twin evils of “white supremacy and unchecked corporate greed” and how to fight them both.As I...
View ArticlePlease, Hillary--Don't EVER say these words again.
Look, I’m an obnoxiously devoted Bernie supporter, and not really a fan of Hillary. In the name of political revolution, I even support Bernie’s recent hijinks. But I do see and accept Hillary as the...
View Article2013 Article Reveals Gist of GS Speeches: "No Bank-Bashing"
A 2013 Politico article entitled "Lament of the Plutocrats" provides a second-hand glimpse into the content of one of the speeches that Hillary Clinton did for Goldman Sachs. It evidently included“a...
View ArticleWhole Foods, profiting from CO inmate labor, says it will quit by 2016
We expect this kind of thing in China, and yet somehow, one of the nation's best known brands with quite a good image, has been profiting from the labor of Colorado's prison inmates since 2011:Whole...
View ArticleDeflated Unions
This is less a full-fledged diary than an observation.I am currently visiting relatives in Boston, and for those of you out of the area, one of the few stories to thoroughly saturate the media this...
View ArticleEugene Robinson responds to Pope Francis
in a powerful op-ed for Friday's Washington Post titled A pope’s pointed messageI am going to urge you to read it and pass it on. There are some key quotations from the Apostolic Exhortation released...
View ArticleTaibbi –“Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws”
Once again, Matt Taibbi reminds us he's one of the few remaining souls in the MSM that still tells it like it is in his latest Rolling Stone feature, “Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three...
View ArticleSoledad Blasts Sen. Sessions On Air for Balancing The Budget On The Empty...
Another great reason never to watch Morning Joe, Soledad O'Brien on CNN. Think Progress has an excellent post about today's show in which she criticized Senator Jeff Session (R. Ala.) for trying to...
View ArticleThings That Need to Change: Punitive Attitudes Toward the Poor
A nice catch by my friend Gina Cornia, of Utahns Against Hunger.A recent article from New Orleans included a photo of a boy living in the projects who happened to own an iPad. As you can imagine, all...
View ArticleJust How Many American Jobs Did Romney's Wealth Create?
Critics of Mitt Romney's overseas investments are incensed at the fact that he is paying less than his share of taxes, and/or avoiding them all together. Certainly this is a valid concern when economic...
View ArticleMoveOn Ad: Mitt Romney is "Mr. 1%"
MoveOn.org political action has a new tv ad out in Iowa. According to the publisher of New Hampshire's Union Leader, which candidate represents the One Percent? Hint: He calls himself "unemployed."...
View ArticleBeat poetry for the Occupy movement
By now, many have seen the footage of the police beating students and faculty during the Occupy Berkeley demonstrations.Here is another lens for that assault, this time through the eyes of Robert Hass,...
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Occupy Wall Street & hype: The screams that caught my eye today (Updated -...
Recently, there were questions about the Occupy Wall Street Movement and "hyperbole." Protesters were asked to remain accountable and report accurately based on evidence, evidence that the American...
View ArticleEugene Robinson loves the Occupy protests
as he writes in his column titled The Occupy protests: A timely call for justice. He gives lots of reasons, beginning like this: Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are...
View ArticleThe Unsung Heros Of OccupyWallstreet
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by...
View ArticlePelosi Not Whipping Votes; Update: All 74 in Prog Caucus Will Vote No!
Nancy Pelosi, who met with her caucus today to gauge support for the deal, has not announced yet whether she’s in favor of it. More specifically, the question of whether Dem leaders will actively press...
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