(7 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 30, 2015
Open Letter to John McCain: Get Out of Washington, You Low-Life Scum I would think that someone who has personally experienced the worst imaginable hell of war would be the first one to stand up for veterans when given the chance. But you, Senator McCain, have turned your back repeatedly on America's veterans when they asked for even the most concrete necessities.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 28, 2015
The Kochs' $889 MILLION Pledge to Buy the Presidency Could Undo Education Cuts in 4 States The Koch philosophy is profoundly unhealthy, and all the more reason that nobody should be able to wield so much power over a nation's politics. Our democratic system will always be compromised until we can successfully amend our Constitution to say that corporations aren't people, and that money is not speech.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 26, 2014
If Obama Were a White Republican, He'd Be a Conservative Hero Since his first inauguration, President Obama has masterfully steered the benefits of the recovery to only the wealthy, while the net worth of average working Americans has dropped by 40 percent since before the recession. Today's middle class is actually poorer than it was in 1989, when Reagan left the White House.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 24, 2014
We Want Real Justice, Not Dead Cops Since when did selling cigarettes, jaywalking, and being homeless in pubic cost you your life? No matter what the deceased were accused of, it's not acceptable for them to have been robbed of their lives, just as it is unacceptable for the two slain officers to be robbed of their lives by a lone, confused, disturbed individual.

SHARE        Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Outgoing GOP Senator Tom Coburn Now Singlehandedly Responsible for Every Veteran Suicide Before retiring from a decades-long career in the US Senate and leaving Washington for good, Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) gave one last middle finger to veterans -- he said that preventing future veteran suicides would be "throwing money away" and singlehandedly blocked $22 million aimed at addressing the veteran suicide crisis.

(8 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 11, 2014
Why President Obama Should Veto This Budget and Shut Down the Government When this Congress works together to get something done, it's almost always a great deal for their donors and a profoundly shitty one for the rest of us. The omnibus spending bill that Congress is about to pass is just about the most corrupt and dangerous piece of legislation to come out of Washington in a long time.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Our Silence Means More Violence: An Open Letter to Fellow White People We as White people must acknowledge that the problem of police brutality isn't just an issue for members of one particular ethnicity to deal with -- it's a human rights issue. Martin Luther King was right when he said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 1, 2014
How Corporations Are Creating a Life-Threatening Water Shortage Nestle is draining America's vital groundwater resources at a stunning rate -- with 29 water bottling facilities across North America, it pocketed $4 billion in revenue from bottled water sales in 2012 alone.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 8, 2013
How to Win the War on Terror: Repeal the Patriot Act George Orwell's book "1984" was meant to be a novel, not an instruction manual. If we want to stop the government's tyrannical spree and blatant disregard for our rights, we have to insist that the Patriot Act be repealed and that we abolish the Department of Homeland Security in its entirety. We can no longer call ourselves a free country until we accomplish both of those objectives.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 9, 2013
Benghazi: The Shiny Object Distracting Us From Elizabeth Warren The House GOP is obviously playing along with the corporate-owned spin machine's game of smoke and mirrors. It's largely a frantic attempt by the corporations running our government to steer attention away from the populist resistance to corporate rule that's slowly and steadily sweeping all over the country.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 15, 2013
President Obama, One Corporate Puppet Among Many The people of the United States should rightly interpret this latest slew of betrayals in government as proof that we live under the thumb of a corporate tyranny, not a legitimate constitutional republic. And we should come together to decide what a functional new government would look like, and reject the assumed legitimacy of our corporate ownership's puppet government.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Congress Protects Monsanto, Not Third Graders Harry Reid's admittance of defeat to the gun lobby proves that Washington won't listen to the grieving friends and families of those who were gunned down in a movie theater in Colorado, or at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, a shopping mall in Portland, or an elementary school in Connecticut. The only thing that moves Washington to act is cash.

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 27, 2013
Most of Our Debt Is Fake - Let's Abolish It President Obama dismissed the trillion-dollar coin idea... because it would be a huge blow to the banks that have contributed lots of money to helping Obama keep his job. Most of the paper money in circulation comes from fractional reserve banking... each dollar is essentially a note signifying debt owed to the private banks that control the Federal Reserve, which has been the sole issuer of US dollars since 1913.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 6, 2013
Cut Corporate Welfare, Not the Safety Net In Congress' latest "fiscal cliff" deal that supposedly had to be passed in order to avoid economic calamity, we spent $30 billion on extending unemployment benefits for a year, and $205 billion on corporate tax breaks, subsidies and excessive tax loopholes. Most of these Christmas gifts for corporate America are benefiting major, multi-billion-dollar corporations that haven't paid a dime of US income taxes in years.

SHARE        Sunday, May 27, 2012
What Does Wisconsin See in Scott Walker? If putting a corporate boot on the necks of working families to spite his political opponents isn't enough to convince Walker's supporters they're voting against their own best interests, Walker is also an outspoken criminal who lies under Congressional oath.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 1, 2012
Occupy Phase II: The Supreme Court While Occupy has made great strides in influencing the public dialogue, there is still a troubling void where a central, unifying rallying cry should be. Social movements can't be powered by raw emotion forever. If we want to win, 2012 must be the year we occupy SCOTUS.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 27, 2011
America Has Become a Fascist Police State It is no longer extreme to say we now live in a fascist police state. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the SCOTUS' Citizens United decision, and a complacent electorate, our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly now only exist on paper.