Help us out by throwing some cash in the bucket:
Click here to read Hightower's personal message about
REAL CHANGE
(not small change)
Help spread the word about these secretive front groups. Three progressive watchdog organizations do a good job of investigating, unmasking, and monitoring the groups that are funded by corporations to push the right-wing, corporate agenda. To check out which corporations... [read more]
The Obamacans have spent a lot of their political capital during the past year to woo health-insurance giants, drug companies, hospital chains, and the rest of what is called the health-care "industry." The White House wanted the industry's support for... [read more]
Right-wing groups receiving major grants from the Koch Family Foundations (Charles Koch, David Koch, and Claude Lambe Foundations)
Amounts granted from 1976 through 2007, the latest year for which data is available.
Organization: Amount
To put an intellectual gloss on their hard-core antigovernment beliefs, the Kochs founded and funded their own think tank: the Cato Institute. Headquartered in Washington, it is home to a flock of leading right-wing thinkers who regularly churn out reports,... [read more]
While the right is trumping up stories about phony voter fraud, true disenfranchisement is happening. To learn more about the real problems with voting in our country, check out these groups:
The word "weasels" describes not only furry, burrowing rodents, but also corporate lobbyists who tunnel loopholes through our country's ethics laws.
Take Doheny Global, an energy and real-estate corporation. Last year, it hosted a week-long schmoozefest for potential investors, inviting them... [read more]
America has the wrong approach for dealing with thieves. Rather than "looking backwards" at their misdeeds and "punishing" them, we merely need to ask that they not misbehave in the future, then monitor their behavior.
Believe it or not, this is... [read more]
IMAGINE ALL THE (RICH) PEOPLE...
Okay, maybe you're one who still stews about Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns--but give the guy credit for his lifetime of confronting corporate arrogance, his inventive thinking about reforms (seatbelts, etc.), and his tireless advocacy for economic and social justice.
Nader's great... [read more]