Oscar Shoutouts Roundup
Several winners at last night's awards ceremony used their acceptance speeches to speak out on causes meaningful to them.
Trump breaks tradition and redesigns Presidential coin to read “Make American Great Again”
President Trump's name appears on the coin three times.
Can Bernie Save America?
Sanders has seized the chance to change the way we think about what is possible in this country.
Dream On — GOP ‘Unity’ Looms as Trump Closing His Gun-to-the Head Deal
Just as the protean Donald will say anything to win votes, the Party of Hypocrisy now confirms its mind-blowing hypocrisy, willing to support a partial, perceived winner who says anything to win power. Is that how to to make Republicans, let alone America, great again? Or just Trump, the perfect, modern media candidate, talking in such empty constructs angry campers can project whatever they want? Now we understand why rightwingers will embrace the Trumpster, less for unity than desperation: it's not pretty to see a national party cornered, then nullified, or worse.
TransCanada’s Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with State Department...
Though the Mexican government publicly denied the U.S. had any involvement in helping to usher in privatization of Mexico's energy sector, it appears the State Department has tracked gas pipeline developments in Mexico closely.
Why are Greg Palast and Jesse Jackson suing Kris Kobach?
Even Jesse Jackson has joined us. Will You?
Time To Stop The Next War Now
The country must show it is ready to oppose the next war and the Armageddon that it threatens.
Country Music, Tea Party ‘Populism,’ and Ted Cruz
The billionaire-backed funding for Ted Cruz comes from those the billionaire-backed groups and individuals that oppose raising the minimum wage, or even the existence of a minimum wage, want to gut Medicare, Social Security and unemployment benefits, and want to reduce their own taxes even more.
The ‘fog’ of democracy
the super rich who run corporate America AKA This Empire use the airwaves and media in general to push their right wing agenda. Sad.
From a concert in Las Vegas to a funeral in Yemen, we must stop...
Just as we are trying to get Congress to take action on gun control, so we must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.