Arianna Huffington tells us that “Andy Stern, the groundbreaking president of the Service Employees International Union” is the next great progressive hope. She pitches for him mightily and compares him to the Democratic Party who she is currently displeased with: “Compare that with the pale rhetoric and feeble resistance being offered by Democratic leaders in [...]
Today, on Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman interviewed Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine. There was not one question about vanden Heuvel’s blind support of Kerry’s pro-war candidacy (even in heavily-gerrymandered states, like Illinois, where entire counties could have voted anti-war and not changed the ultimate recipient of Illinois’ electoral votes). Ironically, vanden Heuvel [...]
According to United for Peace of Pierce County: “On Friday evening in Olympia, former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter appeared with journalist Dahr Jamail. — Ritter made two shocking claims: George W. Bush has “signed off” on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and the U.S. manipulated the results of the Jan. 30 elections [...]
Nicole Colson writes about the Democrats taking a less-than-pro-choice stance on abortion. Take her article at face value and accept its defense of a Democratic Party slide at first blush. Then, ask yourself, why is this happening? I figure it happens because Democratic Party supporters have no where else to go. They’ve alienated the Greens, [...]
“It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can’t vote and doesn’t vote.” —Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), in an interview on Meet the Press He wasn’t talking about the recent American “elections” where roughly half of the country doesn’t vote, a major chunk of those who are ostensibly [...]
TimesCommunity.com reports on Prof. Colleen Shogun’s research: It used to be that having 50 competitive races in the 435-member U.S. House of Representatives was low, but that number has now fallen into the low teens, noted Colleen Shogun, associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University. Under the current system, incumbents are likely [...]
Karyn Strickler proposes a corporate death penalty (or read a copy with more links) which kills people, but leaves the corporation intact: (emphasis mine) “The Corporate Death Penalty Act could provide that every member of the Board of Directors and executives of a corporation who knew, or should have known about the likelihood of their [...]
What are the Democrats waiting for? How does supporting a liar to retain her high office credentials help convince the country that the Democrats care about telling the truth? A majority of Democrats voted to confirm Condoleezza Rice. If all the Democrats had voted not to confirm her, it would not have changed the outcome [...]
It seems that death, taxes, and criminal corporations are three things you can count on. Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman released another of their annual top 10 criminal corporations lists this year covering just some of the 2004 lot. It appears that Coca-Cola is killing, abducting, and torturing workers and their families in the Colombian [...]
According to their press release, Media Matters for America says there is “No Room for Progressives on Cable News Inauguration Coverage”. They list the few “Democrats or Progressive Commentators” who appeared on TV to cover Pres. Bush’s second inauguration. This is similar to the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) survey which concluded that during [...]
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