He’s donned his colors. He has his eyes on the top spot and is making his move, but right now Mitt Romney is standing strong as the protector of the great lie, “Corporations are people my friend.”

The tone deaf bodyguard of all things financially elite has been littering the… Read full post »

In what his opponents have called an “unprecedented power grab” President Barack Obama has used the power of the recess appointment to install former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. The CFPB is an agency whose formation was appr/… Read full post »

Frank Luntz, crafting the message for America's financial elite

In a few short days 2012 shall be upon us. The election year will be official and the real fight for the interests of the financially disenfranchised begins. Believe what you will about the camps, the strikes, the petitions and… Read full post »

Clarence Thomas, one of five justices who ruled in favor of so-called corporate personhood

“Occupy the Courts’ is a phrase, a concept, a suggestion that has bounced around within the uprising that has come to be called the 99% movement almost since its inception. For some it has… Read full post »

In the camps and the marches of the Occupy movement they chant “Show me what democracy looks like… This is what democracy looks like!” Its stirring, it’s empowering, and it is purely rhetorical without actual participation in the election process.

In the Senate… Read full post »

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering… They are unanimous in their hate for me – and I welcome their hatred.”

These are not tranquil times. T… Read full post »

The tents will be coming down. The banners will be coming down. It will happen at different speeds in different cites but it will happen. The symbolism will need a reboot and for the mainstream media the clashes with police may become passé. But nothing is over.

The great potential conc… Read full post »

"Lets make our future" Occupy Oakland, October 2011

America’s most significant populist uprising of the last half century is at a crossroads. From here the prevailing winds within the Occupy movement can blow towards practical applications and real change or they can spin round and rou… Read full post »

The justification had worn thin before the story was even widely known. When asked why members of the media had been blocked from the scene of last night’s eviction of Occupy Wall Street, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed he had acted to “protect the members of the press. We… Read full post »

You could hear it in the elated screams from members of Organized Labor in Ohio last night. You could witness it in the relieved sighs of young southern women as an idiotic and totalitarian ‘personhood’ bill that would’ve mangled their right to choice went down in flames. You/… Read full post »