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Wisconsin recall elections: A sign of hope or more hell?

By | 08.09.11 | 12:51 pm

Today, Wisconsin is holding the greatest recall election in U.S. history. Six Republican senators are on the block, a result of Governor Scott Walker’s sweeping anti-worker’s rights proposals and the legislative maneuvering he engineered to pass them, which managed to offend Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike. Amid a deep jobless recession, the brief Wisconsin campaigns have reportedly drawn roughly $40 million in spending. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza describes them as “special elections on steroids,” but adds that it’s hard to draw any conclusions about what the unique showdown means

Citizens United gets the Story of Stuff treatment

By | 03.03.11 | 6:25 pm

With her 20 minute “Story of Stuff” web-video, Annie Leonard explained some of the downside of consumerism to a lot of Americans. Now with her “Story of Citizens United” video, she explains why she and many others believe the corporate personhood extended by the 2010 Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision threatens the U.S. democratic system of government. She calls on Americans to pass a Constitutional Amendment clarifying that the First Amendment granting the right to free expression is not meant to include corporations.

Ellsberg calls Assange and Manning heroes, lets Clinton off hook

By | 12.02.10 | 9:54 am

Blogger-troublemaker-muckraker and sometime L.A. radio host Brad Friedman Wednesday nabbed Daniel Ellsberg for an interview. Ellsberg, the Defense Department analyst who leaked the 1960s Pentagon Papers exposing Johnson Administration lies tied to the war in Vietnam, has been…

Sherrod to sue Breitbart, joins ACORN employees in seeking redress

By | 07.29.10 | 3:42 pm

AP reports that Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod has declared she will sue right-wing activist publisher Andrew Breitbart for posting a tendentious blog and misleadingly edited video that painted her as a racist. Breitbart post on Sherrod fed…

Tuesday Link Dump: Has 4Chan hobbled Gawker?

By | 07.20.10 | 1:09 pm

Gawker called out 4Chan.org’s notorious /b/ message board for singling out an 11 year old YouTuber and posting her personal info on the web. The girl was eventually placed under police protection. The 4Chan users then declared war on…

WATCH: Controversial Karl Rove-Code Pink book tour coming to Colorado

By | 04.12.10 | 1:56 pm

Former Bush Adviser and GOP top strategy man Karl Rove’s book tour is coming to Littleton and Colorado Springs this weekend. Will he be citizen-arrested by members of Code Pink? Rove ditched a signing event in Beverly…

Maddow reports real ACORN story half-year too late

By | 04.06.10 | 9:25 pm

On MSNBC Tuesday night Rachel Maddow ran segments of the unedited ACORN video tapes posted online by California Attorney General Jerry Brown last week. Brown completed an investigation of the anti-poverty organization and cleared the demonized group of…

Calif. Attorney General: ACORN committed no criminal acts

By | 04.02.10 | 11:43 am

The California attorney general’s office yesterday found the anti-poverty organization ACORN guilty of no criminal acts. The investigation, which came to the same conclusion as one announced by the New York A.G. last month, was spurred by videos…

Obama lawyers defend ‘vote fraud’ efforts

By | 11.04.08 | 6:39 am

As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign’s “voter protection effort” for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes will get counted on Election Day.