Corporate America’s assaults on working people—seeking profits through offshoring jobs, busting unions, paying politicians to slash corporate taxes and deregulating the banks—have ruined our economy. . . The accident of birth should not determine the course of a person’s life. Government expenditures are an indication of a society’s priorities, and it is both economically and morally imperative to provide a safety net for those who suffer the most in a downturn. . . Capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy—they are linked structures of oppression that must be dismantled. Analyzing these structures is critical to forging a political strategy to challenge corporate power.
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Category Archives: Conservatism
The Story of Broke (2011)
Debunking The Right-Wing Meme That The Obama Administration Is Anti-Business
Soldier Found Guilty of Murdering Afghans, Sentenced to Life
Gibbs is the highest ranking of five soldiers charged with being part of a rogue “kill squad” that targeted civilians. Another seven soldiers also were charged with lesser crimes including abusing drugs, keeping “off the books” weapons and intimidating a fellow soldier not to speak out against the platoon’s alleged killings.
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Gov. Scott Walker Gets Checked, Mic Checked!
The beauty of this is the witnessing of the involuntary transfer of authority by the right-wing reactionaries, and the priceless look on their faces upon realization that their authority had just been stripped from them. That was pure poetry in motion!
Republicans 2012
Why I Do Not Support the Troops!
This is the first time since I read Major General Smedley Darlington Butler’s (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) classic, must read, War is a Racket, that anyone has expressed my sentiments so eloquently!
Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons.
Papantonio: Tea Party OK With Sexual Harassment
What’s God got to do with it?
He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure. . . The House voted 396-9 this week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The motto was made official in 1956 during the height of Cold War hysteria over godless communism and — in the words of Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” — “Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
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