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The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete
Our electoral apparatus is thoroughly compromised by oceans of dirty money, Jim Crow registration traps, rigged electronic voting, gerrymandering… By Harvey Wasserman | The Rag Blog | November 5, 2014 The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete. The Republicans now … Continue reading
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Why Congress can’t understand your financial struggle
For the first time in this country’s history, more than half of the members of Congress are at least millionaires. By Ted McLaughlin | The Rag Blog | January 11, 2014 The figures above are for Congress in 2012, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Concentration of Wealth, Congress, Congressional Wealth, Corporate, Corporate Power, Lobbyists, Rag Bloggers, Ted McLaughlin
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Jack A. Smith : The Left and the ‘Lesser Evil’ Dilemma
Graphic from Liberation News.For whom should the left vote? Many progressives now view Obama as the ‘lesser evil,’ but worry he will sell them out once again. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | November 5, 2012 There … Continue reading
Ted McLaughlin : The Never-Ending Fight Against the Plutocrats
Sample plutocrat: William Henry Vanderbilt (1821 – 1885). Famous quote: “The public be damned.” From Famous Person Caricatures / TradeCard.com. Inset image below: Modern day robber baron David Koch. Caricature by DonkeyHotey.The never-ending fight against the plutocrats “The issue today … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Corporate Power, Economic Justice, Economics, Plutocracy, Ted McLaughlin, Trickle-Down
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Harry Targ : Fairness in Hypocrisy Valley
Image from Occasional Links and Commentary.Fairness in Hypocrisy Valley Since elections, the public expression of political power, are significantly determined by millionaires, trustees at Hypocrisy Valley usually are the wealthy and powerful. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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Tagged Campuses, Corporate Power, Harry Targ, Higher Education, Political Corruption, Political Satire
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Lamar W. Hankins : ALEC and the Right Wing Agenda
Graphic from alecwatch.org.The ALEC agenda:How the right-wing moldslegislators to shill for corporations By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | February 28, 2012 “[Any law proposed by businessmen] ought always to be listened to with great precaution… It comes … Continue reading
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Tagged ALEC, Conservative Politics, Corporate Power, Lamar W. Hankins, Right Wing
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BOOKS / Thom Hartmann : Jeff Clements’ ‘Corporations Are Not People’
And money is not speech:‘Corporations Are Not People’ By Thom Hartmann/ Truthout / February 1, 2012 [Corporations Are Not People by Jeffrey D. Clements (Berrett-Koehler, 2012); Paperback, 224 pp., $17.95.] Most Americans don’t realize that the idea that “corporations are … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Citizens United, Corporate Power, Jeffrey D. Clements, Supreme Court, Thom Hartmann
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture The emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a global movement for freedom, democracy, and economic justice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture The emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a global movement for freedom, democracy, and economic justice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture By Mark Naison / The Rag Blog / October 6, 2011 NEW YORK — On Monday, October 3, I spent about an hour in … Continue reading
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Ted McLaughlin : Media Won’t Report the Real Wall Street Story
Members of the Occupy Wall Street media organization produced bails of newspapers chronicling the past three weeks of protests. Photo by John Minchillo / AP / Christian Science Monitor.Occupy Wall Street:The media won’t report the real story By Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
Mike Lofgren : Why I Left the GOP Cult
Image from Gunaxin.Goodbye to all that:Reflections of a GOP operative Who left the cult By Mike Lofgren / Truthout / September 5, 2011 Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah — only you’re a little more rotten.” — Double … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Corporate Power, Mike Lofgren, Religious Right, Republican Party
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