Andy96

LATEST ARTICLES ( 210 )

• Functioning Democracies Require Citizen Participation and That …

  Government is crucial for building a public infrastructure that equally protects and empowers every citizen Citizenship dues are necessary to fund this public... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• TTIP-Concerns About Food Safety, Suppressing Civil Disobedience, Tax Reform,...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/7 EU-US Trade Deal Lets Corporate Interests Steamroll Food Safety, Groups Warn We are writing to respond to claims by the... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I Guess the Only Thing Left to Do IS VOTE.

  - First they came for the unions, but I didn’t vote. - Then they diverted pay raises for my increased productivity to corp profit and my spouse went to work to... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• World View of Ferguson, McConnell Kisses Up to ONE%, FBI & Charter Schools,...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/31 Everyone From Tibetan Monks To Iran’s Supreme Leader Is watching Ferguson. Here’s How They’re Reacting Why would someone... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Amerian Wariors Proliferate War Mentality Across America, Atlantic Ocean Warms,...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/24 A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in Ferguson One small way to measure the police... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Warren Or the Golden Calf, Information Warfare, Another Secret TA, NPR Fooled,...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/17 Elizabeth Warren’s 11 Commandments For progressives just recently let out of the bondage of the long Clinton-Bush... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hoarding Cash, InvertersRDeserters, Putin a Target?, Yahoo PGP, PO Bank, Disaste...

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/10 Cash Hoarding becomes an Addiction Several studies have been done since the Great Recession, and we’ve learned that many... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/3

  The people of the United States must work to end the interventionist violence of the U.S. Empire The historian who chronicles US Empire,William Blum, issued... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suggested Reading for Week Ending 7/27

  See How Americans For Prosperity Ranks YOUR Congressmen on free market fundamentalism – Neoliberalism Top 10 DEMs get ratings between 20% and 39%, like Jim... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suggested Reading Week Ending 7/20

  Tea Party Has Become Religion, Stopping the Devil Incarnate is It’s Goal Interview with Billionaire Nick Hanhauer – The Pitchforks Are Coming The Human Price... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Excessive Corporate Intrusion Is a Major Factor in Maximizing Inequality

  When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize, and medicare, corporations only... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Neoliberal, Free Market Fundamentalist, Ideology of The 1971 Powell Memo...

  

  Decades later, Lewis Powell codified Vice President Wallace’s “method” in The Powell Memo of 1971. The result was a proliferation of conservative think tanks... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Right-wing Authoritarian Neoliberal Ideology Has Prevented Universal Health...

  Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from the masses to the ONE%.... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Edward Snowden Exposed Our Authoritarian – Dual – State

  The following are excerpts are from a recent article by Chris Hedges: Snowden, we are told, could have reformed from the inside. He could have gone to his... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Success of 50 Years Of Fighting to End Poverty Minimized by 30 Years of...

  

  … social change is happening and growing inequality is the great enabler. Relative to Bill Moyer’s 8 stages of successful social change and postings in Popular... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Maximizing Profit Morfs The Fourth Estate Into Stooge for Hire.

  For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of such sources in the sidebar of this blog which I update... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Contested Concepts – The “O” Word

  The following quote is from a blog posting by Marc Farinella : “Two final points from Lakoff; here’s the first: Don’t be fooled by contested concepts,which are... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Are All Born Equal — Just Not With Equal Opportunity

  Progressives claiming that right-wing authoritarians are irrational is like right-wing authoritarians claiming minorities are mentally inferior to whites. They... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Do The ONE% Keep Getting Richer?

  

  An updated report on growing income inequality between America’s profit makers and profit takers shows the growth of income for the profit takers – the top ONE%... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Unions Must Join The Fight Against Climate Disruption

  Demand freedom from Climate disruption – increased weather extremes and human costs resulting from significant, unseen, and rampant releases of greenhouse... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY