Thursday, April 25, 2024

The MSM Could Not Care Less About This Threat to Democracy

The media's failure to report on GOP efforts to suppress the vote is aiding and abetting a national disgrace.

Thank You, Edward Snowden: An End to General Warrants as So-Called Patriot Act Expires

We've taken a few baby steps back toward democracy after the expiration of the misnamed “PATRIOT Act” gives restoration to Americans’ privacy. But if it wasn't for the revelations of Edward Snowden, we would have never known.

‘Total embarrassment:’ WaPo rebuked for failed fact-check of Sanders on trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout

"The piece portends to be an exercise in empirical rigor and mathematical precision. But he's really just playing games with semantics and definitions. And people who understand the issues he 'fact-checks' can see it."

The U.S. Corporate State has Become the Monarch Our Founders Despised

The takeover is complete. We must come up with a strategy to unite all activist movements and win back our independence from the corporate state.

How to end crony capitalism

What if the anti-establishment wings of both parties came together in a pro-democracy coalition to get big money out of politics? 

Time to ‘break Facebook up,’ Sanders says after leaked docs show social media giant...

“As I have been saying the privacy frame is bullshit,” said another critic. “Facebook is all about criminal behavior to monopolize ad money.”

Trump cornered

What does a megalomaniacal president of the United States do when he’s cornered? We’ll soon find out.

The World After Me

We are beginning to show the strains of the global destabilization now evidently underway and, unnerved, we are undoubtedly continuing to damage the future in ways still hard to assess.

Individuals working for Wall Street, private equity and Big Pharma love to donate to...

Booker has sworn off corporate PAC contributions, but his biggest donors work in fields whose interests run counter to progressive priorities.

Why Are We Taxpayers Subsidizing Corporate Crime?

America's laws help deter corporate crime and force victims to help subsidize criminals. It's shameful that the corporate-financed lawmakers legalize such criminality. Are corporate-coddling judges now playing the same disgraceful game?