Posts Tagged ‘ Corporate Power ’

Occupy Wall Street: American As Apple Pie

November 12, 2011
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Those loud right-wing voices in our political discourse that are trying to make Occupy Wall Street look like something “foreign” to American culture are barking up the wrong tree. When David Crosby and Graham Nash recently showed up at Zuccotti Park for an impromptu sing-along with the protesters they linked OWS with the long...

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Stupid Politics From a Smart Administration

November 29, 2010
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The whole tenor of the next two years is going to feel like George W. Bush never left office. The GOP will have de facto control over the nation’s politics and agenda. If President Obama goes down the Clinton path of triangulating against his progressive base (as seems likely) then he deserves to be...

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Civic-Minded Plutocrats

October 28, 2010
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It’s truly touching how much interest in America’s great democratic experiment that our esteemed men and women of industry, finance, and commerce have shown in the 2010 midterm elections. Elementary school teachers across the land might lead civics lessons by pointing to these salt-of-the-Earth hedge-fund managers, oil tycoons, derivatives traders, and outsourcing zealots who...

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Citizens United – Game Changer

October 14, 2010
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Last January, during his State of the Union Address, when President Obama broached the topic of Citizens United saying it was going to unleash a torrent of corrupting corporate money into our political system, Associate Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the defiant words: “No, that’s simply not true.” The 2010 midterm campaigns have shown us...

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“Citizens United” for More Corporate Power

January 24, 2010
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With the Supreme Court ruling by the “Fabulous Five,” Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a single corporation will be able tap into its deep pockets and disfranchise a million citizens. A group calling itself “Citzens United” has just won a fight to give huge corporations more control over our politics. Even the 1886...

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Black Robes and Black Shirts

January 23, 2010
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Historically speaking, very bad things happen to a people who acquiesce in the corporate takeover of their government. In the first half of the 20th Century we learned that Trusts couldn’t be trusted and that FIAT, Krupps, and I.G. Farben made very bad public policy in Italy and Germany. We just suffered through eight...

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A Lesson for Obama: President Kennedy’s Stand Against the Steel Industry

December 30, 2009
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In April 1962, when U.S. Steel and five other steel corporations unilaterally decided to jack up their prices and squelch an intricate set of compromises that the Kennedy Administration had expended a great deal of effort in negotiating, President John F. Kennedy responded with an aggressive counter attack that shocked the Washington press establishment....

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The Oligarchy Wins Again!

December 21, 2009
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A forty-vote Republican minority in the United States Senate controls the destiny of all legislation aimed at addressing the nation’s most pressing needs after eight miserable years of Republican misrule and malfeasance. Welcome to California America! Here in Sacramento only thirteen Republican state senators control legislation relating to the state’s finances. In Washington it’s...

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