Yesterday, a lawsuit was brought by Detroit’s Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, challenging the legality of Michigan’s Emergency Financial Manager Act, which, as you will recall, gives the State the power to fire locally elected officials, replacing them with appointees (Czars) empowered to sell local assets, invalidate agreements, and […]
Posted in Detroit, Michigan | Also tagged Amy Goodman, Andy Dillon, Constitution, corporate takeover of politics, coup d’état, Czars, Edith Lee-Payne, Emergency Financial Manager, financial martial law, Georgia, Ingham County Circuit Court, John Philo, Kym Spring, Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, Naomi Klein, privatization, racism, Rick Snyder, right to vote, Rosemarie Aquilina, Sandy Springs, the Emergency Financial Manager Act, threats to Democracy |
As you no doubt know, President Obama and congressional leaders were able to avert a government shutdown by reaching an agreement on the 2011 budget late Friday night. While we don’t yet know all the facts, it looks as though the Republicans were not successful in their attempts to defund public broadcasting, and stop the […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics | Also tagged Amy Goodman, budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, Congressional Progressive Caucus, entitlements, EPA, estate tax, global climate change, greenhouse gas, Jeffrey Sachs, lobbyists, Medicaid, Medicare, military spending, Millennium Promise Alliance, NPR, Obama, Paul Ryan, PBS, People’s Budget, public broadcasting, social security, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich |
By Mark | December 20, 2010
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges on Thursday’s unreported protest at the White House, his new book, Death of the Liberal Class, and Obama’s Faustian bargain with corporate power. (It’s grim stuff… To be honest, I wish I’d watched 30 Rock reruns instead.) Part-two of the interview can be found here. update: Speaking of Democracy […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Politics | Also tagged 30 Rock, Amy Goodman, anti-war, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Death of the Liberal Class, feminism, Jaclyn Friedman, Julian Assange, Manufacturing of Consent, military industrial complex, Naomi Wolf, New York Times, Obama, Pentagon Papers, protests, rape, sex crimes, the sad state of journalism, Wikileaks |
I should be out, having fun, as I’m home alone tonight, without my wife and daughter, but Democracy Now has a segment on a new documentary about the White Nationalist movement in America, that I can’t seem to pull myself away from. [The documentary, entitled White Power USA, can be seen in its entirety on […]
Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged 88, Al Jazeera, Amy Goodman, Arizona, illegal immigration, Jacquie Soohen, JT Ready, minutemen, National Socialist Movement, NSM, racial holy war, racism, Rick Rowley, right-wing extremism, violence on the extreme right, white nationalism, White Power USA, white supremacist |
Former Baltimore newspaperman, David Simon, perhaps best known for his work on Homicide and The Wire, spoke before John Kerry’s Senate sub-committee on the future of journalism yesterday. As you might expect, he was brilliant. Sure, he discounted the contributions of blogs, many of whom really are producing valuable, original content, but, for the most […]
