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Everything is pointing toward a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign… And only Elizabeth Warren can stop it

By Mark | December 17, 2013

For the past several weeks, one of my favorite people, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has been publicly floating the idea that, if no other strong progressives, like Elizabeth Warren, come forward to announce a run for the presidency in 2016, he’d consider doing it himself. Someone, according to Sanders, needs to address the collapse of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Barbara Boxer, Bernie Sanders, campaign finance reform, Citizens United, cooperatives, Edward Snowden, Elizabeth Warren, energy efficiency, financial reform, global climate change, Global Warming, health care reform, income inequality, Koch brothers, money as free speech, Noam Chomsky, NSA, participatory democracy, Patriot Act, poverty, privacy, progressive taxation, public funding of elections, Sheldon Adelson, single-payer system, social security, Socialism, tax reform, taxing the rich, Ted Deutch, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to Democracy, Vermont, wealth inequality, worker ownership | 12 Comments

Pushing a gas tax, declaring Detroit “dead,” and assigning blame to John Dingell

By Mark | September 24, 2009

I don’t typically quote a lot of Thomas Friedman here, but he’s got a column it today’s New York Times on one of my favorite subjects – the gas tax… I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again, but we desperately need a coordinated campaign for a gas tax in this country… […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 9/11, Arab oil embargo, automotive, Daniel Okrent, David Rothkopf, Denmark, dependency on foreign oil, driving the last nail, gas tax, green transportation, healthcare reform, Iraq war, John Dingell, Phil Verleger, Superclass, the public option, Thomas Friedman, Time magazine, war for oil | 19 Comments

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