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(34 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 28, 2009 House Democratic Leader Declares National Health Care Legislation "Off The Table" This Year, Maybe Next
What does it mean when leading House Democrats, and apparently the White House repudiate their own campaign promises to enact a universal-coverage national health care plan only days into the new Congress and new administration, even though they have a popular president and the biggest Congressional majority in two generations?
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Community Organizer v. Corrupt Politician: The Dec. 6 New Orleans Congressional Election
The Dec. 6 New Orleans congressional election isn't just a local choice between a privatizing "minority" Republican, a notoriously corrupt Democrat and a caring, competent community organizer running on the Green Party ticket. The days leading to this election are a test of whether there exists even the shadow of a national movement mature enough to hold any black Democrats the least bit accountable.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 2, 2008 The Hidden History of US Broadcasting
The US broadcast media regime, in which greedy, amoral corporations enjoy completely free monopoly licenses to run their highly profitable businesses upon the scarce public property that is the broadcast spectrum is usually presented to us as the only "natural" and sensible media order. It is, we've all been told, the benign and logical outcome of democratic give and take and rigorous competition in a free marketplace.
SHARE Thursday, February 21, 2008 Holding Barack Obama Accountable
It's time for a little less respect for the high and mighty of either party, and a little more action. It's high time for activists inside and outside the Democratic party to look for creative, innovative, sometimes impolite and civilly disobedient ways to reach larger audiences as they speak truth to the powerful. Even and especially when those in power are nominal Democrats.