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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]
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.
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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]
You'll be comforted to know that the rich are concerned about you. Not concerned about your joblessness, lack of health care, or your economic condition. No--it's your psychological state of mind that has them worried. They are troubled by what... [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]
"Banker" and "morality" are not concepts you easily put together, but some of the biggest bankers in Europe are rushing out to insist that at heart, they are all about morality.
These declarations of personal ethics are prompted by the outrage... [read more]
The business elite of Honduras staged a coup this summer. They saw the elected president, Manuel Zelaya, getting serious about shifting power to the poor people of this Central American republic, so they deported him at gunpoint and installed their... [read more]
The health-care reform battle has produced a barrelful of factoids and perverse twisters that give insight into the real world of American politics.
For example, health-insurance corporations are infamous for denying coverage to anyone with a pre-existing condition--things like cancer, or... [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]