I shouldn’t get so bent out of shape over a politician’s or a political party’s lack of intelligent decision-making, decisions which ignore past behavior of those you need to deal with. Harry Reid ‘s decision not to pursue real filibuster reform is such a naïve, self-serving decision. It is…
By OcJim In 2008, many feared that the Bush administration would somehow stay around for a third term by staging a terrorist event and declaring martial law rather than holding elections. Accordingly, many believed they were saved with the advent of Barack Obama’s election. While Bush’s departure proved that…
By: Movetoamend.org On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. We, the People of the…
Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine expressing his support for The December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown. The shutdown is a co-ordinated response by the Occupy Wall Street movement to the brutal, co-odinated repression of OWS by the 1%. It is also in solidarity with the longshoremen's struggle…
By OcJim How is it that we allow misanthropes like Republican Representative Paul Ryan, city mayors, and other such actors for plutocrats abuse our law-abiding citizens for speaking out against them and their master class of the one percent? Before the Occupy movement became an annoyance for one-percenters, they…
By OcJim Our troops will come home from Iraq by the end of this year. Will they too join the ranks of the homeless, the unemployed, and the walking wounded – many without hope or help. One could well believe that Jim DeMint, Republican Senator from South Carolina, who…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence Wall Street is certainly a locus of appropriate focus for a movement that hopes to break the cycle of extreme disparity of wealth and income in our world, but the Pentagon may actually be a better place to contend. Why? Without violence…