The Roots of the Tea Party
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/15990/the_roots_of_the_tea_party/ How conservatives came to dominate U.S. politics. BY Melvyn Dubofsky January 8, 2014 Only by understanding the...
View ArticleTycoon’s hostage taking strangles pensions: Boeing workers cave on retirement...
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/tycoons_hostage_taking_strangles_pensions_boeing_workers_cave_on_retirement_ransom/ After government drops an investigation amid a Tea Party firestorm,...
View ArticleDemocracy needs whistleblowers. That’s why I broke into the FBI in 1971
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/07/fbi-1971-burglary-hold-government-accountable Like Snowden, we broke laws to reveal something that was more dangerous. We...
View ArticleConservatives Don’t Want To Talk About Income Inequality. That’s Why We Should.
From Pandagon@Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/conservatives-dont-want-to-talk-about-income-inequality-thats-why-we-should/ By Amanda Marcotte Tuesday, January 7, 2014 Do you believe...
View ArticleBurglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/burglars-who-took-on-fbi-abandon-shadows.html?_r=5& By MARK MAZZETTI JAN. 7, 2014 PHILADELPHIA — The perfect crime is far easier to...
View ArticleGreen Capitalism: The God That Failed
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21060-green-capitalism-the-god-that-failed By Richard Smith Thursday, 09 January 2014 The results are in: No amount of “green capitalism” will be...
View ArticleGrand theft pension “reform”
From Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org/2014/01/09/grand-theft-pension-reform Gutting pensions is part of a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. January 9, 2014 “PEOPLE ARE...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Media’s Obsession With Objectifying Transgender Bodies
From Media Matters For America: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/08/the-right-wing-medias-obsession-with-objectifyi/197488 LUKE BRINKER January 8, 2014 Transgender actress Laverne Cox made waves...
View ArticleI was not Born a Man, I Was Born a Baby. Further Would You Ask Cis-Gender...
For the record I had SRS over 40 years ago during the bronze age of their doing SRS. Think about it! Cis-privilege means people don’t automatically think they have the fucking right to ask you about...
View ArticleCan Media Please Stop Focusing on Trans People’s Bodies?
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/01/09/op-ed-can-media-please-stop-focusing-trans-peoples-bodies In interviews with Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox, Katie Couric displayed a...
View ArticleFormer Alabama youth minister arrested for allegedly sodomizing teen boys
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/former-alabama-youth-minister-arrested-for-allegedly-sodomizing-teen-boys/ By David Ferguson Thursday, January 9, 2014 A former youth minister and...
View ArticleGeoengineering: As Bad As Climate Change?
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/08-4 Risky plan to mitigate climate change could dry out the tropics: study Andrea Germanos Published on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by...
View ArticleNo, really: It’s over for Christie in 2016
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/10/no_really_it%E2%80%99s_over_for_christie_in_2016/ The bridge scandal lets national media dredge up every instance of pettiness, rage and payback. There are...
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