Tag Archives: election finance reform

What does Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin mean?

By Mark | June 7, 2012

To all of my friends in Wisconsin who didn’t vote yesterday, I hate you. Not only are you responsible for keeping the unabashed corporate shill Scott Walker in office, but, more importantly, you’re responsible for ruining my first Netroots Nation conference. OK, maybe I’m overstating things a bit. I’m sure the conference will be just […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ALEC, campaign finance reform, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporatocracy, get the money out of Washington, Greg Sargent, Koch brothers, labor, Milwaukee, money as free speech, money in politics, Move to Amend, recall, Reince Preibus, robocalls, Russ Feingold, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Tom Barrett, unions, voter fraud, We Are Wisconsin, Wisconsin | 24 Comments

Michael Moore offers the Occupy movement his thoughts on a list of demands

By Mark | November 22, 2011

Michael Moore spent this past weekend working with the men and women of Occupy Wall Street, helping them to craft a vision statement for the movement, and come up with a list of outcomes that they would like to see realized. Following are Moore’s thoughts on the subject. This past weekend I participated in a […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Other | Also tagged Bush tax cuts, campaign finance reform, clean air, clean water, corporate personhood, demands, democracy, education reform, food safety, Franklin D. Roosevelt, free education, Glass-Steagall Act, healthcare reform, holding insurance companies accountable, How to get our Democracy Back, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, retirement, shipping American jobs overseas, single-payer system, social security, universal health care, vision statements | 12 Comments

Glenn Beck vs. Jeffrey Sachs on Occupy Wall Street

By Mark | October 10, 2011

I have two pieces of video for you to compare and contrast. One is of a failed morning zoo DJ. The other is of a well-regarded professor from Columbia University. Can you figure out which is which? VIDEO ONE: VIDEO TWO: So, did you figure it out? Here’s a hint… The economics professor isn’t the […]

Posted in Economics, Media, Politics | Also tagged corporatocracy, fear mongering, Glenn Beck, Jeffrey Sachs, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, protests, public funding of elections | 26 Comments

FBI reads Reddit, tracks Redditor without warrant

By Mark | October 10, 2010

Last week, a guy on Reddit posted a photo of a weird device that was found strapped beneath his roommate’s car. (A mechanic had found it while working on the car.) Well, it turned out to be a tracking device, and the FBI has since asked for the unit back. It would seem that the […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics | Also tagged Afifi, Chamber of Commerce, elections, FBI, GPS device, Khaled, Khaled the gypsy, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, privacy, Supreme Court, surveillance, surveillance culture, tracking, warrantless searches | 17 Comments

With the blessing of the Supreme Court, corporate money is now pouring into the midterm elections in support of Republican candidates

By Mark | October 4, 2010

During the last session of the Supreme Court, as you’ll recall, the Justices, in a contentious 5-4 decision, declared that we, the American people, did not have the ability to regulate what they deemed corporate free speech. And, by “speech,” they meant the amount in dollars that corporations, both foreign and domestic, could spend on […]