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So You Want to Buy an Election?
Article post with courtesy of Mother Jones.
If you have a ton of cash and a political agenda, it's easier than ever to make powerful friends and influence people. Here's a handy how-to guide to the complex, cash-drenched world of federal campaign finance.
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Gaze Into the Exploding Universe of Dark Money
Article post with courtesy of Mother Jones. Mother Jones has charted the red giants and blue dwarfs spending millions to influence the 2012 election.
If Citizens United was the Big Bang of a new era of money in politics, here's the parallel universe it formed: rapidly expanding super-PACs
Scandal: Sex, Drugs, and Oil
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According to a series of reports sent to Congress on September 10, 2010 by the Interior Department's inspector general, department employees have engaged in serious misconduct throughout the last several years. Allegations include rigging oil
Facts
What 40 Years of lack of Leadership did to America. The R
Summary: 1- The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they
were still in operation. Source: The American Prospect
2- The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since
Who Knew There Was So Much Poverty? The Poor, That's Who
Last evening, Tavis Smiley hosted a program that was broadcast live on C-SPAN live and that focused for two-and-a-half hours on the issue of poverty in America. It was terrific. The energy and commitment of the experts assembled to investigate and help alleviate poverty made the
Financial Meltdown 101
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Getting a grip on the economic catastrophe that rocked the country during the fall of 2008 is no easy feat, what with so many players, back-room deals, bills, upswings and meltdowns to consider. To that end, Truthdig, once again in collaboration
New Economy
Nineteen Million Jobs for US Worker
By: Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Jeannette Wicks-Lim , Political Economy Research Institute | Report
Summary of Study
Amid the ongoing employment crisis in the U.S. economy, U.S. commercial banks and large corporations are sitting on huge hoards of cash and other
Economics in 2012: No Gain, Just Pain as Austerity Brings
With the eurozone on the brink of a new recession, this will be the year when millions of people bear the brunt. The fluctuations of the financial markets and the relentless round of make-or-break euro-summits gripped the attention in 2011, but this will be the year when the shockwaves are
The Collapse Of Our Corrupt, Predatory, Pathological Fina
We are being throttled by the Big Lie: we're told that if the predatory financial system implodes, we'll all be ruined. The opposite is true: the only way to save our economy is to let the corrupt, pathological and flawed financial system implode.
I was recently challenged by a contributor
Real Change
Business Leaders Demand SEC Regulate Corporate Political
Corporate reformers have launched a mounting campaign at finance industry regulators to curb corporate political excesses.
A poll released today by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Small Business Majority highlighted that 88 percent of small business
Buddy Roemer: Candidate Who Backs Campaign Finance Reform
We speak with Buddy Roemer, a candidate who is on the Republican ballot in New Hampshire but has not been invited to this weekend’s two Republican debates—or any of the past 16 debates—even though he is a former governor of Louisiana and four-term member of Congress. Roemer’s campaign
Lawrence Lessig Makes the Case for Bipartisan Reform to A
By BETH SCHULMAN on POGO, December 14, 2011
"The great threat to our republic today comes not from the hidden bribery of the Gilded Age, when cash was secreted among members of Congress to buy privilege and secure wealth. The great threat today is instead in plain sight. It is the economy
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Portland City Council approves anti-war and corporate-per
City Council vote follows on heels of N.Y. and L.A.
Portland, Ore., has followed in the steps of New York and Los Angeles in passing a city resolution denouncing the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed unlimited spending by corporations and unions in elections. The
“Art is My Occupation”
“Art is My Occupation”: Rethinking the Role of Artists in the Movement
As a member of the self-identified “slash profession” – writer/organizer/educator/whatever pays the rent that month – I have learned how to wear multiple hats. How to move between different worlds and
Occupy Wall Streeters Aren't Republicans—Or Democrats
Attention, 2012 candidates: When it comes to party affiliation, 70 percent of Occupy Wall Streeters label themselves "independent."
We've had to rely on pundits and Flickr photos in order to approximate the makeup of Occupy Wall Street—until now. Fast Company just released an infographic
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Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum?
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- It took a relatively obscure former British academic to propagate a theory of the financial crisis that would confirm what many people suspected all along: The "corporate psychopaths" at the helm of our financial institutions are to blame. Clive R. Boddy, most recently aWhy 'Corporate Psychopaths' May Really be to Blame for th
Looks like the soulless SOBs who wrecked our economy may really be "corporate psychopaths," and yep, they are still in control of our financial institutions. According to Bloomberg News: Clive R. Boddy, most recently a professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent"I Am Fishead" Are Corporate Leaders Egotistical Psychopa
how psychopaths and antidepressants influence our society a provocative snapshot of the world we live in It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them forSorriterm
Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters: Cities Alrea
With millions in federal grants, local officials are preparing to crack down on dissent. Two cities have their hands full preparing for the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions later this year. As officials in Tampa, Florida, make plans to manage an estimated 15,00015 Years in Prison For Taping the Cops? How Eavesdropping
Over Memorial Day weekend this past May, residents of Miami Beach witnessed a horrific display of police brutality as 12 cops sprayed Raymond Herisse's car with 100 bullets, killing him. The shooting provoked outrage in the surrounding community, not only because of the murder, but because ofFBI targeting political activists as terrorists
Anti-terrorism resources are being used to target environmentalists, peace, animal and political activists who hold different views than the government.It was recently revealed that a counter-terrorism firm spied on individuals who attended film screenings of the documentary Gasland. The film- Occupy Wall Street
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