Hopeful Progressives Count Their Election Day Blessings
Election Day brought some disappointment to progressives across the US. A Republican take-over of the US House of Representatives and of many state governorships, including in New Mexico and Florida, isn’t easy to swallow. But there are a few pieces of good news out there, including the victory of Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer in […]
What Obama Has Done [Comprehensive Edition]
There has been a great deal of change and reform delivered over the last two years. While most of these have gone by unnoticed or are not remembered, a fine Wiki team has recorded and organized every major point in a comprehensive database, now available here.
Election 2010: Afghanistan And Iraq Wars Are MIA As Political Issues
Americans are going to the polls next week, and this election cycle was long on negative adds, personal attacks and plain stupidity while short on real debates, between the candidates and in the media, on most key policy issues. Lowest common denominator politics is what truly characterized this political cycle. Today, comedian Jon Stewart is […]
United States: From Democracy To Oligarchy And Plutocracy
Election 2010: The Best Congress Money Can Buy According to opensecrets.org, there are 130 foreign companies that sponsor PACs ( Political Action Committees) using their US-based subsidiaries to finance countless campaigns in the 2010 election cycle. Together, they have donated more than $12.6 million (and still counting) to political campaigns through various PACs. The electoral […]
Is Poverty The Future Of America’s Middle Class?
America’s middle class has been under attack for about 30 years. One of the main goal of Reagan, the Republicans and the pro-corporate Democrats was to dismantle the few critical social programs and safety nets put together by FDR and later Lyndon Johnson. Bush Sr. kept pushing for the same social Darwinist policies of deconstruction […]
