I did a segment on RT this afternoon about WikiLeaks exposure of Washington’s subservience to US corporate interests, which I wrote about earlier this week on AlterNet. Here is the video: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIsZgn7DFeE&w=640&h=385] Also, today’s episode of Democracy Now featured an excellent interview with Kim Ives and Dan Coughlin, who have been reporting on the 2,000 […]
Month / June 2011
My latest piece published yesterday at AlterNet: One of the most significant scourges paralyzing our democracy is the merger of corporate power with elected and appointed government officials at the highest levels of office. Influence has a steep price-tag in American politics where politicians are bought and paid for with ever increasing campaign contributions from big […]
Here is my latest article published today at AlterNet: Politicians, the media and the power elite tell us that state and local government budget shortfalls are the result of lavish compensation packages paid to teachers, police officers and firefighters along with “entitlements” such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. The truth is that the economic crisis, […]
Here is my latest article published today at AlterNet: Between Collateral Murder, the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Diary, and Cablegate, it appeared as though 2010 would go down in history as the most shocking year in WikiLeaks revelations. Americans discovered that trigger-happy soldiers who have been trained to kill are likely to shoot innocent civilians, including journalists and children. They learned that […]
According to an article by Raw Story, the US Department of Education sent a SWAT team (that’s right a SWAT team!) to the home of Kenneth Wright to — collect his wife’s unpaid student loans. Acting on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 […]
I had the pleasure of appearing on RTTV this evening to discuss corporate abuse. I sat down with RT’s Lauren Lyster to talk about the recent PR campaign by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Chevron, and the think tank The Center for Strategic and International Studies. They have teamed up on a new project […]
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