Some really good stuff at DailyKos. Here are some much under-appreciated proposals to actually pay for the bailout. Better yet, these include some proposals to make the people benefiting from the bailout pay for it.
Really, does it make any sense to call this a “bailout” when we are accomplishing it with borrowed money? We’re going [...]
Amy Goodman recently interviewed Ralph Nader at DemocracyNow. Nader was not sold on Obama:
Barack Obama really now has to be examined very carefully. He has worn out the word “change.” We now want to know what change is involved. And it’s quite clear that he is a corporate candidate from A to Z. [...]
If you somehow haven’t yet figured out how the incessant lies of FOX led us to begin the senseless bloody occupation of Iraq, you can catch it all again. Except it’s about Iran now. This video comparing the FOX campaigns against Iraq and Iran is almost unbelievable. Is there anyone really willing to believe [...]
Howard Zinn recently spoke on patriotism on DemocracyNow:
Patriotism to me means doing what you think you’re country should be doing. Patriotism means supporting your government when you think it’s doing right, opposing your government when you think it’s doing wrong. Patriotism to me means really what the Declaration of Independence suggests. And that is that [...]
Back in January, 2007, I attended a press conference in Memphis during which Dennis Kucinich appeared to strongly oppose impeachment. Based upon a recent interview with Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow, though, Kucinich seems to be warming up to the idea:
I don’t think that it’s wise for the House and the Congress, for co-equal branches of [...]
