Infiltrating the Single Payer Movement
http://www.healthcare-now.org/ My own knowledge of left gatekeepers stems from 14 years as a single payer activist (1988-2002) in Washington State. Our local single payer movement was launched by a...
View ArticleThe Destruction of American Unions
The effect of the 1947 Taft Hartley Act on union membership was almost immediate. In 1946 the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) had 6.3 million members. By 1954, when it merged with the AFL,...
View ArticleThe Mayor Who Said No to the Feds
Wes Uhlman - Seattle Mayor 1969-1978 In my last post I wrote about the apparent defect in integrity and moral courage that plagues most American corporate and political leaders. This hasn’t always been...
View ArticleThe FBI’s Misadventures in New Zealand
Kim Dotcom There is growing suspicion in New Zealand that this country, like American Samoa and Puerto Rico, has become an American colony. Sadly, the unfolding Kim Dotcom[1] saga seems to confirm...
View ArticleAn Unlikely Folk Hero
Multimillionaire Kim Dotcom Last March, I blogged about Kim Dotcom [1], the Internet multimillionaire the FBI is trying to extradite to the US on Internet piracy charges. In brief the FBI is accusing...
View ArticleHow Citizens United Kept the Koch Brothers Out of Jail
If video won’t play go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ybl9roaHe0 Investigative reporter Greg Palast is on a speaking tour for his latest book Billionaires and Bandits: How to Steal and Election...
View ArticleWikileaks Reports FBI Banned from Iceland
On January 30, 2013, WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson reported that FBI agents who entered Iceland in August 2011 to investigate Iceland’s WikiLeaks operations had been ejected from the...
View ArticleBill Maher Interviews Julian Assange on HBO
Last Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher interviewed Wiileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. They discuss the illegal investigation of Wikileaks the FBI...
View ArticleWhen They Put White Collar Criminals in Charge
Guest post by Steven Miller (This is the last of four posts by Steven Miller regarding the rise of the surveillance state.) Domestic Spying Since the state is the organization of the ruling class,...
View ArticleThe NSA is the Tip of the Iceberg
Guest post by Steven Miller and Satish Musunuru (Part 5 of a five-part post on the corporatization of Internet surveillance.) The capitalist class deliberately distorts the class nature of the...
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