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Scott McLarty has served as media coordinator for the Green Party of the United States and for the DC Statehood Green Party. He has had articles, guest columns, and book reviews published in Roll Call, CommonDreams.org, Z Magazine, Green Horizon, The Progressive Review, In These Times, and several local and community publications and small press. He joined the Green Party in 1996, and in 1998 ran for the Ward 1 seat on the Washington, DC City Council. Mr. McLarty grew up in Long Island, New York, and now lives in Washington, DC.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 The Occupy Movement Must Also Become a Voters' Rebellion (10 comments)
Democratic presidents and party leaders keep adopting more and more Republican agenda while Republican politicians sink deeper into extremism. The crisis won't be solved by intoning "We must vote to reelect Obama because Republicans will be worse" or by denial that voting can have any effect on the future.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Some Modest Questions for the Tea Party, and for Democrats Too (7 comments)
After the "Restoring Honor" Tea Party rally on Aug. 28: Is the political debate in America permanently limited to capitulating Democrats versus ever-more-extremist Republicans?
Friday, May 15, 2009 Fire Departments and Health Care (11 comments)
Single-Payer and the Obama Administration: Why America Needs a national health care system right now, and what's preventing us from getting one.
Thursday, December 18, 2008 Six Big Green Solutions to the Economic Meltdown (2 comments)
How to turn the economy around: a Green public works program, aid for state and muncipal governments, expansion of mass transit, single-payer health care, a peace dividend gained by ending the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and an end to the wasteful war on drugs.
Monday, November 26, 2007 America needs a drastic change of political landscape (3 comments)
Unless the emergence of a progressive third party thwarts the political direction of the US, we face a dismal future under bipartisan pro-war, pro-corporate, antidemocratic rule.
