On Tea Partiers, Progressives, Obama and Double Standards……
The double standard both ideological camps embrace when their guy is in the White House is remarkable.
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The Enemy of the Good: The Social Impact of the American Prison
In their efforts to appear tough on crime both the left and the right have led us towards a model of criminal justice that arguably does more harm than good.
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The Corporate Takeover of America Is Now Complete
So, what will the pissed off peasants do to reclaim their democracy? Organize and overturn the 1886 Santa Clara corporate personhood case, on which the recent court case depends for precedent?
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TGP: A Mexico City Pilgrimage
Muralist David Siqueiros used the famed printmaking studio to stage a commando-style assault on Trotsky’s home. Siqueiros and his men wore fake mustaches, real police uniforms, and carried machine guns as they left the workshop.
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Naomi Klein’s: The Shock Doctrine
And churn them out, they did. Friedman and his devotees laid the worldwide groundwork that enabled their corporate benefactors/beneficiaries to use whatever means necessary— physical threats (and worse), economic sabotage, or other shocks—in order to produce the desired results.
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Who Invented The Telephone?
At a time when corporations had just won corporate “personhood” in the 1886 US Supreme Court case, Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad Corporation, I suppose Daniel Drawbaugh had little chance of beating the corporate-backed Bell in court.
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Who the Hell Was Victoria Woodhull?
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States (in 1872 and 1892). Why don’t we all know this?
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Who the Hell Was Smedley Butler, USMC?
“In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
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