Author: Michael Winship

Stories by Michael Winship

How a Legal Case Over an Idiotic Right-Wing Anti-Hillary Film Might End Up Destroying Our Democracy

A nasty little piece of propaganda could unleash a new torrent of cash flooding into campaigns from big business, unions and other special interests.
Posted on Sep 5, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms

As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.
Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

'The Select Few' Are Cashing in: Shocking Corruption at the Washington Post

Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.
Posted on Jul 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.
Posted on May 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Why Michael Pollan Doesn't Want to Be Secretary of Agriculture

The writer is not biting at an Internet-fueled citizen's movement to draft him for the cabinet post, but he does have some suggestions.
Posted on Dec 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet

The Big Money Barrier Surrounding the White House

Can change happen when the usual suspects are piling up money like sandbags against the public's clamor for a better deal? We'll find out.
Posted on Nov 3, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

A Truck-Sized Loophole: Corporations, Special Interests to Spend $100 Million on Convention Parties

The parties' conventions offer plenty of opportunity to skirt the spirit of campaign finance laws without violating them.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org

D.C. Is Drowning in a Sea of Campaign Cash

Follow the money -- it goes from your gas tank to the wine bars and steak houses of DC, where the payoffs from big business to politicians go down.
Posted on Jul 21, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

The Iraq War Was About Oil, All Along

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.
Posted on Jul 5, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

U.S. Doublespeak a Betrayal of Iraqi Translators

Iraqis working with U.S. troops live in fear of being sent back to Iraq.
Posted on Feb 23, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org

109th Congress: Goodbye, Farewell and Don't Let the Door Hit You...

With 19 members under federal investigation and a record-low number of days in session, let's hope our new Congress can do more than the old one did.
Posted on Dec 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet

We Hold This Truthiness to Be Self-Evident

Cable hosts and politicians are increasingly making statements with no foundation in the facts. As with Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the truth may soon catch up with them.
Posted on Feb 8, 2006, Source: BuzzFlash

Tigers, Bears and Bush

Adding to its dismal environmental record, the Bush administration now wants to permit the hunting of endangered species in other countries. Grrr!
Posted on Oct 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet

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