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Pete Seeger: Changing the World With Song
Folk singer Pete Seeger's book, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," includes a tribute to the people who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that recalls the spirit of fortitude and hope of the early civil rights movement — and asks us to recapture it in a post...
Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
Green, the Color of Good Jobs
The union movement is turning green. Not with envy, but with an escalating sense that the nation must work to address climate change and that we must be part of the effort to create good jobs that also are green jobs. Last December, an unprecedented delegation of...
The Mad, Mad Middle Class
You may not agree, as Sara Robinson provocatively suggests, that the country is primed for revolution. But there is no doubt that large numbers of middle-class people are mad, really mad, about the damage Bush-league conservatism has done to the country and to their...
When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps To Revolution
"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." — John F. Kennedy There's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual. The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the...
The Society of the Owned
Part One of a series. When George W. Bush first spoke of "the ownership society," he led most Americans to believe, and many did believe, that he was talking about them. Now, four years later, it's easy to conclude that the president, his party and conservatism itself...
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
The Sunday shows strike out again for the Watchdog. Not only did Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace fail to press Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell on the White House support for immunity for telecom companies that allegedly violated consumer privacy at...
Lewin Findings on Hacker-EPI Health Plan: Good News for Obama and Clinton
Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker’s Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group. As you can read in the EPI press release, Lewin found that HCFA would cover...
Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
Where's the Love for Our Veterans?
The nation’s legions of homeless or near-homeless veterans make a mockery of all of those “support the troops” bumper stickers and other symbols of faux patriotism conservative blowhards like to flaunt — which is why right-wing mouthpiece Bill O’Reilly of the...
