Tag Archives: Corporate Crime

The Boston Tea Party was in response to corporate oppression, not higher taxes

By Mark | April 5, 2011

In a world beset by self-proclaimed historians like Glenn Beck, scribbling nonsense on blackboards, and making wild assertions that aren’t backed up by facts, I found this video, which actually revolves around real, first-hand accounts of the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party, to be extremely refreshing. For those of you who are […]

Posted in History, Other, Politics | Also tagged 1773, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party, American revolution, Boston Tea Party, corporate socialism, corporate takeover of politics, corporate welfare, East India Company, George R.T. Hewes, George Robert Twelves Hewes, Glenn Beck, Rusticus, Samuel Adams, tea, tea party, The Alarm, Thom Hartmann | 8 Comments

Get ready for the rollback of U.S. child labor laws… It’s starting

By Mark | April 2, 2011

As we discussed here not too long ago, Paul LePage, the new Tea Party-supported Governor of Maine, recently made national headlines for ordering the removal of a mural depicting the advances made by organized labor from his state’s Department of Labor building. The mural, among other things, includes a panel acknowledging the plight of Maine’s […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Act to Enhance Access to the Workplace for Minors, child labor, collective bargaining, David Burns, Debra Plowman, doublespeak, Jane Cunningham, labor, LD 1346, Maine, minimum wage, Missouri, murals, Paul LePage, Rachel Maddow, rewriting history, threats to the middle class, union busting | 20 Comments

Russ Feingold announces the launch of Progressives United

By Mark | February 19, 2011

One of the best Senators our country has ever known, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, has just announced the launch of a new organization dedicated to the lessening of corporate influence in American politics. It’s called Progressives United, and following you’ll see Feingold’s video announcing the organization, as well as his appearance on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged campaign finance reform, cheese curds, collective bargaining, corporate money, corporate speech, get the money out of Washington, Michele Bauchmann, money in politics, Progressives United, public employee unions, Rachel Maddow, Russ Feingold, Scott Walker, union busting, unions, Wisconsin | 5 Comments

Happy anniversary Citizens United, here’s our country on a silver platter

By Mark | January 23, 2011

It’s been exactly a year since our Supreme Court, in a controversial 5-4 decision, ruled that corporate spending on political campaigns needed to be protected as though it were the free speech of an American citizen. The decision in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case has, among other things, made it unconstitutional to […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged 12 Months After: The Effects of Citizens United on Elections and the Integrity of the Legislative Process, buying elections, campaign funding, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate media, corporate money, corporate takeover of politics, Free Speech, get the money out of Washington, money as free speech, money in politics, Prince William, Public Citizen, Supreme Court | 8 Comments

Will Wikileaks revelations on wealthy tax dodgers motivate Americans to take action?

By Mark | January 19, 2011

I’ve got two great videos that I want to share with you today. The first, from Dylan Ratigan’s show on MSNBC, pertains to the most recent chapter in the Wikileaks saga. For those of you who haven’t heard, Julian Assanage, the man behind Wikileaks, called a press conference a few days ago to say that, […]