Reader
Supported News | 06 April 14
FOCUS: Robert Reich | Will McCutcheon Give
Birth to the Next Occupy?
Robert Reich, Guardian UK Reich writes: "We have returned to the gilded age of the late 19th century, when the lackeys of robber barons placed sacks of money on the desks of pliant legislators. If this is not corruption, what is?" READ MORE |
FOCUS | #CancelColbert and the Return of the Anti-Liberal Left
Michelle Goldberg, The Nation
Goldberg: "It's increasingly clear that we are entering a new era of political correctness. Recently, we've seen the calls to #CancelColbert because of something outrageous said by Stephen Colbert's blowhard alter ego, who has been saying outrageous things regularly for nine years."
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Steve Weissman
| Ukraine: The IMF's Big Lie
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Like government leaders everywhere, Russia's Vladimir Putin often lies. But when he tells an uncomfortable truth, few people in the US or Europe bother to listen. Take what he said about Ukraine back in 2007, when Time magazine interviewed him as their 'Person of the Year.'"
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Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Like government leaders everywhere, Russia's Vladimir Putin often lies. But when he tells an uncomfortable truth, few people in the US or Europe bother to listen. Take what he said about Ukraine back in 2007, when Time magazine interviewed him as their 'Person of the Year.'"
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John Nichols |
A Resounding Vote Against Koch Brothers Dollarocracy
John Nichols, The Nation
Nichols writes: "Even as the US Supreme Court attempts to expand the scope and reach of the already dangerous dominance of our politics by billionaires and their willing servants, Americans are voting in overwhelming numbers against the new politics of dollarocracy."
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John Nichols, The Nation
Nichols writes: "Even as the US Supreme Court attempts to expand the scope and reach of the already dangerous dominance of our politics by billionaires and their willing servants, Americans are voting in overwhelming numbers against the new politics of dollarocracy."
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New York
Police Arrest Veterans Protesting at Vietnam War Memorial
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "Three military veterans were arrested at New York City's Vietnam Memorial after taking part in a protest that activists said was part of an attempted revival of the Occupy movement, a push that began Friday with events planned worldwide."
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Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "Three military veterans were arrested at New York City's Vietnam Memorial after taking part in a protest that activists said was part of an attempted revival of the Occupy movement, a push that began Friday with events planned worldwide."
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David Sirota |
Rahm Emanuel Cuts Public Pensions, Diverts Money to Benefit Campaign
Donors
David Sirota, Pando Daily
Sirota writes: "This same story, portraying public employees as the primary cause of budget crises, is being told across the country. Yet, in many cases, we're only being told half the tale."
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David Sirota, Pando Daily
Sirota writes: "This same story, portraying public employees as the primary cause of budget crises, is being told across the country. Yet, in many cases, we're only being told half the tale."
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Errol Morris,
On Donald Rumsfeld's Inability to Separate Fact From Fantasy
Calum Marsh, Esquire
Marsh writes: "In his more than thirty-five years as a documentarian, Errol Morris has profiled a lot of delusional people: Holocaust deniers, unpunished murderers, serial killer obsessives. None are as oblivious to their own mistakes as Donald Rumsfeld proves to be in this film."
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Calum Marsh, Esquire
Marsh writes: "In his more than thirty-five years as a documentarian, Errol Morris has profiled a lot of delusional people: Holocaust deniers, unpunished murderers, serial killer obsessives. None are as oblivious to their own mistakes as Donald Rumsfeld proves to be in this film."
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Changing our
Climate of Indifference
Jill Richardson, AlterNet
Richardson writes: "In a million ways, the changing climate is ruining lives there: changing rain patterns, floods, mudslides, crop failures, and more."
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Jill Richardson, AlterNet
Richardson writes: "In a million ways, the changing climate is ruining lives there: changing rain patterns, floods, mudslides, crop failures, and more."
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Pennsylvania
Fails to Report Water Contamination From Fracking
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams writes: "If you live in Pennsylvania and would like to be informed of when and where fracking leaks are contaminating the groundwater, well, good luck."
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Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams writes: "If you live in Pennsylvania and would like to be informed of when and where fracking leaks are contaminating the groundwater, well, good luck."
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