Monday, February 24, 2014

The 'Deep State' Rolls with the Entrenched Power of Wall Street, the Military and the Government

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Former Washington Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren talks on Bill Moyers about the "Deep State" which is operating relentlessly i...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Blackburn Moves to the Head of the Crass

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It's not as if we Tennesseans did not already have enough crazy and injustice to worry about -- the legislature is in session, and you...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Koch-Funded Christie Hid Way More Than Roadblocks

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Greg Palast digs it out as few can.  Christie has some black holes on his schedule, days when he was neck deep with Koch brothers and other ...

America's Secret War in 134 Countries

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Looking for a growth industry in the U.S.?  Think the economy is still floundering and not working for many of us?  Consider the exploding m...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Finally, Some Truth-Tellers about Haslam's Colossal Rip-Off of Tennessee

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Finally, some push-back to Haslam's destructive policies of crony welfare and self-serve. Let's see:  1-- Finally, even Republic...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Judge Compares NSA Spying to Vacuum Cleaner, but Upholds their Sweep-up of Americans' Calls and Emails

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Democracy in America is toast, and the over-entertained majority don't know it.  Chris Hedges, who sued the U.S. over NSA spying on ci...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Rebranding Jesus as a Capitalist

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With a fake rant and an attempted hijacking of Jesus, here's a look at the Radical Right's cheesy attempt to "rebrand" Jes...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Americans' Misinformation Level Threatens Democracy

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Polls reveal  the propaganda of misinformation about the Affordable Care Act has worked.  Ignorance threatens democracy and progress in the ...

Nothing New about U.S. Thought Police Dogging Us

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Living the Orwellian Life Dorothy Comingore, who played the role of Kane's mistress in the 1948 movie Citizen Kane , would never have...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Military State in U.S. is Marching Onward

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By Chris Hedges I and my fellow plaintiffs have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a sectio...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

'Get Mad and Take Action' Needed to Improve Health Care Costs and Outcomes

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By. Dr. Phillip Caper For the next few months we’ll be bombarded by messages from the Obama administration urging people, especially young...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

More Whites Enter Poverty Class

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Poor Prospects in a "Middle Class" Society Sunday, 18 August 2013 11:10 By Gary Lapon , Socialist Worker | News Analys...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

America's Most Serious Threat to Freedom and Democracy

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By Ray Pensador   From Daily Kos.  Click photo of puppet strings to go to Daily Kos site and this article .  I stopped watching all b...

Expanding Medicaid is to Choose Life

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   By Roy Herron Special to The Commercial Appeal   At 13, I found my father on the floor. He’d had a heart attack.   What pass...

Irresponsible GOP Lets Working Tennesseans Fall Through the Cracks of Health Care

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It does not make moral sense, or even economic sense if you have a heart of stone, to turn away millions of federal dollars coming into Tenn...

The Burgeoning State of the Military Police State

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Humanity is Drowning in Washington's Criminality Op-ed news lays it out:  The military police state is in charge and getting worse.  C...

Trans-Pac 'Trade Deal' Is Globalized Takeover of America

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...and very few Americans have even heard of it.... Link to Hightower:  http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/3402 If U.S. takes this de...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

TN Republicans Will Need Chiropractor to Put Them Back in Line After These Political Contortions

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Hypocrite? Who, me?  Republicans take Opposite Side of Their Usual Table-Pounding Points for Larger Agenda   Once this session of th...

Obama's "Disappearing Act"

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Illustration by Mr. Fish "If we lose in Hedges v. Obama —and it seems certain that no matter the outcome of the appeal this case w...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Williamson County Home Values Would Drop if Charter and Voucher Schools are Voted In, Says School Superintendent

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This is just one potential negative side effect to opening the state of Tennessee up to the "education reform" carpetbaggers, who ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

How Many Jobs Will Tennessee Lose because of Bills that Would Outsource Education?

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I thought this was a legitimate question as many bills that are being steamrolled ahead in the Tennessee legislature would take education ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Democrats to Stew on Education at Potluck when Williamson Schools Director Speaks Thursday March 7

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"No man's life, liberty and property is safe when the legislature is in session." ---Mark Twain, 1866   What he said. ...

We Ask Ed Committees: Where's Your Economic Impact Statement from Outsourcing Education?

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What is TN's Economic Loss from Outsourcing Education? This seems like a legit question , yes not one member of either House or Sen...

Voucher Bill Moved Ahead, Charter Bill on Deck

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Updating on these bills we are tracking---this coming from the Facebook page of Standing Together for Strong Community Schools.  http://www....
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

State Takeover of Charter School Process Is Delayed

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NASHVILLE---Did public sound and fury give pause to the Republicans' bill to knock Davidson and Shelby Counties out of the way in decidi...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Little Learning, Cooking the Books, Big Profits: Is This What Privatized Education Looks Like?

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Core principles were on display in the Tennessee state house this week.  More fireworks coming Tuesday Feb. 19 when education committee hear...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Bring on the Jobs and Demand Side of Economy...as Best Remedy for Deficit

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While Congress is generally spinning its wheels and talking about everything except reality, just for fun, let's look at something that ...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Chris Hedges: This Is What a Patriot Looks Like

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Hedges Traces History of Corporate Takeover of Democracy to Peace and Justice Group, while Awaiting His Day in Court vs. President Obama Ove...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Let's Accurately Define Who Wants these Breaks for the Super-Rich

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This quote (below) from Richard Rockefeller (yes, of THE Rockefellers) in the  Citizens for Tax Justice web site punctures the idea that the...

How Many Slaves Work for You?

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Today, Jan. 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. However, do we still support a slave system?   http://www....
Thursday, December 27, 2012

'There Is No American Left'

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We are privatizing our public institutions into morally corrupt profit engines, while ramping up to imprison dissent, and any semblance of a...