Forget about voting federal. The way to take the country back is to challenge corporations at the local level. An interview with Thomas Linzey, executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed
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I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won’t do it again. Don’t believe that for an instant. It’s true their political investments didn’t exactly pay off this time around. “Right now …
Most progressives have long embraced a clear alternative to the conservative story that prosperity flows best from a “free market” unfettered by government regulation and taxes. The standard progressive response: government incentives and spending are essential to spur the creation of jobs, and unions and regulations can make them “good jobs.” President …
We all know the new names of the new generation — from Xi Jinping, now General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) before he’s anointed President next year, to Vice-Premier Li Keqiang. Yet, what’s in a name? Not much, because now China is all about structural attack; how to …
After it came out that Monsanto’s genetically modified maize crop was linked to tumors and organ damage in rats, the EU food safety agency immediately went up in arms in an attempt to find a chink in the armor of the scientific research – as expected. After all, WikiLeaks has revealed that Monsanto literally …
Corporate predators seek cheap labor worldwide. Countries like China, India, Honduras, Jordan, Haiti, and Bangladesh provide it. Transnational giants are unaccountable. Global sweatshops supply them. Workers endure horrific conditions. Some work up to 90 or more hours weekly. They’re wage slaves. They earn sub-poverty pay. They’re subjected to …
Dr. Jack Rasmus goes solo today and talks about the real fiscal cliff. What’s behind the negotiations in Washington today, Nov. 28, as Obama meets again with corporate CEOs. Why a Deal will happen this time and why the House Teapublicans will fall in line with an Obama-Corporate Deal. Why …
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In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations. The state has graced national headlines in recent years as the result of its cozy relationship with the for-profit prison industry. Such controversies have included the role of private prison corporations …
In another display of widespread grassroots support for GMO labeling following the suspicious failure of GMO labeling bill Prop 37 in California, a new petition calls upon the Obama administration to require the FDA to label GMOs within consumer products. Growing in popularity each hour, the petition is receiving thousands of signatures per day …
A new lawsuit brought by eight inmates of the Idaho Correctional Center alleges that the company is cutting back on personnel costs by partnering with violent prison gangs to help control the facility. Court documents and an investigative report issued by the state’s Department of Corrections show how guards routinely …
In his first post-election press conference, President Barack Obama on Wednesday reiterated the claim that his focus in deficit-reduction talks with the Republicans is to provide jobs and help the struggling “middle class” recover from the economic crisis. To this end, Obama declared, he is determined to reach a “balanced” …
Today Gary discusses what our ancestors actually ate, ZMA and testosterone, and irradiated food. Fukushima is struggling to contain irradiated water. Fracking is releasing the “silver white monster,” radium. The issue of the day: America in decline due to corporate interests. Related articles The Gary Null Show – Promises Made, …
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Did Americans really win the election, or the banks and corporations? Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is one of today’s more progressive analytical and economic writers and commentators on the state of the nation: governmental dysfunction, political corruption, global and domestic economic threats and decay, our wars on terror and our …
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Less the 24 hours after Barack Obama won his reelection campaign on Tuesday, a new kind of campaign was launching in a sold out auditorium in downtown Seattle. For the climate activists at 350.org, it didn’t necessarily matter who won the election on Tuesday. Their post-election plan—long in the works—was to …
Gary shares the latest on health and healing and why animal experiments are not accurate. From the science section, the latest analysis of the flu vaccine and its efficacy. Commentary from Andrew Gavin Marshall to prove that everything in the business community is based on a small group of companies …
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