"War is the Enemy of the Poor": Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on Poverty, MLK, Election 2012
by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
on April 25, 2012
In part two of our interview with Tavis Smiley and Prof. Cornel West, they discuss growing up in working-class households. "I saw so much poverty growing up," says Smiley, who lived with 13 family members in a three-bedroom trailer and learned that even when he was not optimistic, he could be hopeful. "Hope needs help," Smiley notes.
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Report Finds Network News Misrepresents Intelligence On Iran Nuclear Issues
by Think Progress blog
on April 18, 2012
A new report from Media Matters released today finds that the broadcast news networks — NBC Nightly News, ABC’s World News and CBS’s Evening News — “frequently” distort or exaggerate key information regarding Iran’s nuclear program. “Two egregious misrepresentations in particular repeatedly came up,” the report says, reports “suggesting that Iran will imminently obtain the bomb and suggesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has major influence over the country’s nuclear program.”
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CommonDreams: You're On Your Own, Kids
by Robert Scheer via CommonDreams
on April 16, 2012
Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one whose own unwed mother had several abortions before yours truly was permitted to emerge.
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Buffett rule fails Senate vote in tax fight
by Reuters
on April 16, 2012
(Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Monday blocked President Barack Obama's "Buffett Rule" legislation, which would have put a 30-percent minimum tax on millionaires, in a debate that is likely to resonate through the November general election.
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4 Ways the Big Banks are Still Screwing Homeowners — And How They're Fighting Back
by Sarah Jaffe, Alternet
on April 12, 2012
Here's how the banks are still doing exactly as they please when it comes to homes. But there's hope.
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Mitch McConnell insists lady Republicans 'don't see any evidence' of War on Women
by Kaili Joy Gray, Daily Kos
on April 10, 2012
Wow. Continuing the Republican Party's failtastic theme of insisting that there is no War on Women (or caterpillars), except that there is a War on Women, but President Obama started it, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to keep digging during an appearance on a radio show when he was asked to comment about the Republicans' War on Women:
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Corporations Plan for Post-Middle-Class America
by Bernard Starr, Algemeiner
on April 10, 2012
American corporations have pretty much written off the middle class. Their actions declare that the middle class is moribund.
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Daily Show: Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Stripsearch
by The Daily Show
on April 04, 2012
Jon Steward on The Daily Show discusses the Supreme Court decision to allow stripsearches in any arrest.
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How American Corporations Transformed from Producers to Predators
by William Lazonick, Alternet
on April 02, 2012
Over the last 30 years, corporations have turned on the 99 percent. Here's how it happened and how to fight back.
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Truthout: All Parties Ignore the One Way to Reduce Health Care Costs: Single-Payer
by David U. Himmelstein MD and Steffie Woolhandler MD, MPH, Truthout
on April 01, 2012
In a recent full-page newspaper advertisement, IBM touted massive medical savings through computerization. It's a promise they've made before, starting with a report issued in 1961. If only these promises were true.
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