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By Shoq, on April 6, 2012, at 8:30 pm
It’s time to restore corporate power to the people by blasting through the myths about how corporations should be run, and for whom.
This article, by an economist who specializes in corporate wealth, with two talented journalists sitting-in, absolutely destroys one of the most enduring and rapacious myths to be found anywhere: that public corporations
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By Shoq, on April 5, 2012, at 5:36 pm
My friend Krystal Ball is getting really aggressive about taking on Republican douchebaggery. She wanted to get this out right away, so she asked me to post it here. Feel free to copy and distribute far and wide (with attribution, please).
See Krystal discuss this in the @MSNBC video below!
How the War on Women
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By Shoq, on March 29, 2012, at 12:39 pm
See important update at the end.
Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post:
Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer
That awful bit of non-reporting spawed these (and other) derived items from so-called “journalists” sucking
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By Shoq, on March 10, 2012, at 2:03 pm
An old and dear Candian friend of mine wrote this to some of his inner circle. I thought I'd share,
Dear Americans,
We have been so entertained over the years by your television broadcasts, but never more so than the past few months with your election primaries. We find ourselves huddled by the TV each night,
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By Shoq, on February 23, 2012, at 9:37 am
As we listen to Republicans waste time discussing culture war issues we all thought had been settled long ago, the world moves on around us, mostly out of sight to ordinary Americans.
Some call Occupy Wall Street a revolution. Well, perhaps it may be, and it may be a peaceful variant, but this PBS video is
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By Shoq, on February 21, 2012, at 4:25 pm
I dislike using the “rape metaphor,” because I agree with most feminists who believe that when it is overused, or used inappropriately, it trivializes the seriousness of rape.
In this case, however, I will rely on Webster’s dictionary, which defines these two relevant words thusly:
Rape — any
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By Shoq, on February 15, 2012, at 9:32 am
Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren wrote a piece in 2011 called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult,” went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues.
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By Shoq, on February 15, 2012, at 9:27 am
Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues. Not wanting to reward any site that would employ such reporters, I must repost Loftgren's work here under Truthout's Creative Commons license.
by: Mike
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By Shoq, on February 1, 2012, at 12:35 pm
Backstory on this issue
Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse this obscene development.
Ways You Can Help:
1) SWAMP Komen's contact form with your protest messages.
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By Shoq, on January 20, 2012, at 9:34 am
A frequent complaint of mine and others who have supported the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) from its earliest days, is that it's not demonstrated much interest or skill at organizing the coalitions that have traditonally been the hallmark of progressive political change in America.
Merely suggesting that professional organizers become involved was often met with
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