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Did You Fall for It? America's Outrage Over TSA Naked Body Scanners Was Right-Wing PR to Prevent Workers from Unionizing

Posted on Apr 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The right fears nothing more than unionized workers, and found a cunning way to scapegoat workers to derail a campaign to organize the TSA.

How the Koch Brothers Indoctrinate Their Employees with Right-Wing Anti-Worker Propaganda

Posted on Apr 23, 2011, Source: The Nation

Before the landmark Citizens' United ruling, the kind of corporate propaganda Koch Industries is using wouldn't have been legal.

Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression

Posted on Jan 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The DC-Wall Street power circuit, with a big assist from the corporate media, is blindly pushing an agenda that could lead to massive social upheaval.

8 Signs Meg Whitman May Lack a Human Heart

Posted on Nov 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet

She's got billions, but Whitman has yet to perform a single significant charitable deed for the Golden State.

Jon Stewart Rally: Just an Exercise in Gen X Self-Indulgence?

Posted on Oct 31, 2010, Source: eXiled Online

In the depths of America's decline, Liberals couldn't muster up a get-together for anything better than a mock-in meant to prove we're less stupid than the other side.

How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay, Collecting Billions While Nearly Destroying the Company

Posted on Oct 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Former CEO Whitman's record of gross incompetence, massive waste and personal enrichment is breathtaking. That the media isn't talking about it is incredible.

Tea Party Flacks Are Drill, Baby, Drill Messengers Too

Posted on Jun 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Exposing how the Tea Party evolved out of the pro-offshore drilling astroturf movement in 2008, and the Koch billionaires' role in backing it.

The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

Posted on Jun 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance.

Top Billionaire Hedge Funder Sees Himself As a Hyena Devouring Wildebeests

Posted on May 21, 2010, Source: AlterNet

We're ruled over by people who despise us and think of us as prey and themselves as hyenas, busy devouring everything they can.

10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud

Posted on Apr 29, 2010, Source: eXiled Online

Fraud has become so endemic in this country that it's woven its way into America’s DNA.

Ayn Rand, Hugely Popular Author and Inspiration to Right-Wing Leaders, Was a Big Admirer of Serial Killer

Posted on Feb 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Her works are treated as gospel by right-wing powerhouses like Alan Greenspan and Clarence Thomas, but Ayn Rand found early inspiration in 1920's murderer William Hickman.

Republicans at Highest Levels Really Want to Do Away with Democracy for All

Posted on Feb 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet

There's a dangerous right-wing alignment in the making; race-baiters proposing 'civics literacy tests' and elite free market ideologues who see democracy as inefficient.

Do Obama and Geithner Have the Same Flaw: Accommodation Instead of Moral Action?

Posted on Jan 15, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Tim Geithner has a long history of caving to moral pressures and smoothing over colossal failures. But his personality is much like Obama. Maybe that's how he keeps his job.

Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions

Posted on Jan 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet

How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors, and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives

Posted on Nov 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet

That Maj. Hasan tried to get a military discharge before the massacre is largely being erased -- we're supposed to keep focusing on the Muslim part.

Focusing on Fort Hood Killer's Beliefs Is an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre

Posted on Nov 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet

That alleged killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim is not enough to explain the attacks.

After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally

Posted on Oct 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

"We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

Posted on Oct 8, 2009, Source: eXiled Online

American billionaires keep cooking up scheme after scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the national wealth, as if the last one was too easy and boring.

Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting

Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Baldasci's shooting opens a window into Fresno, Calif.'s climate of soaring unemployment, scheming agribusiness oligarchs and Sean Hannity-inspired right-wing rage.

"Death Bonds": Wall Street’s Shocking New Plan to Reap Billions off Dying Americans

Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet

It sounds too gruesome to be true, but the bankers have already shaken the silver out of everything that had value in America -- except for the elderly.

Obama Is Leading the U.S. Into a Hellish Quagmire

Posted on Sep 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Obama is doubling down in Afghanistan with more troops deployed now than the Soviets ever had, at a time when public support for it is sinking like a rock.

Meet Larry Summers’s Ex-Boss, a Billionaire with a Blood Feud

Posted on Aug 25, 2009, Source: eXiled Online

If you judge a person by the company they keep, then Obama's top economic advisor has some serious splainin' to do.

If Right-Wingers Get Their Way, 22,000 Americans Will Continue to Be Killed by Lack of Health Care Each Year

Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

This is a battle against people who want to protect a system that has killed more Americans than WW II -- not a debate tournament.

Anti-Government Ideologue Megan McArdle's Amnesia About Her Privileged, Govt.-Funded Upbringing

Posted on Aug 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The "libertarian" Atlantic Monthly writer rails against public health care, yet her family trusted government enough to make them rich.

Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He's Bailing Out?

Posted on May 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Why did Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley steer millions to a company Larry Summers directed while he administered "stress tests" on them?

Corruption Galore at the Washington Post

Posted on May 15, 2009, Source: The Nation

The Washington Post's editorial page is busy whitewashing Bush's disastrous wars, which the newspaper encouraged all along.

What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America's CEO Class?

Posted on May 2, 2009, Source: Playboy.com

They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives' posh homes in Connecticut.

The Rant: CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow -- A New Low in Right-Wing Trash Talk and Hypocrisy

Posted on Apr 23, 2009, Source: eXiled Online

Why does Larry Kudlow still have a job? He's gotten everything wrong, and his irrational anti-Obama rants are truly borderline.

Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering America

Posted on Apr 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.

Workplace Massacre in Alabama: Did Endless Downsizing and Slashed Benefits Cause the Rampage?

Posted on Mar 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

If you keep squeezing workers to fatten filthy-rich executives' already-obscene bonuses, there can be very violent consequences.

The Rick Santelli 'Tea Party' Controversy: Article Kicks Up a Media Dust Storm

Posted on Mar 3, 2009, Source: eXiled Online

Debate heats up: How much are Rick Santelli and the Tea Party protests he inspired part of a project orchestrated by right-wing groups?

The Case That Wars Fuel U.S. Economic Booms

Posted on Feb 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Republicans are censoring their own anti-New Deal logic.

The Unsinkable Career of America's Leading Twerpo-Imperialist Pundit, Max Boot

Posted on Jan 14, 2009, Source: The Nation

After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?

Revealed: WaPo Editor Fred Hiatt's Bizarre Obsession with Demonizing Russia

Posted on Jan 1, 2009, Source: The Nation

Deconstructing Russia coverage on the Washington Post editorial page.

That Was No Small War in Georgia -- It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire

Posted on Dec 13, 2008, Source: Radar

The war in Georgia will be remembered as the place where the American Empire fell on its face.

Keep Larry Summers as Far as Possible from the U.S. Treasury

Posted on Nov 12, 2008, Source: TheNation.com

In light of all of the corruption and cronyism that have marked the career of Lawrence Summers, why is Obama considering him for treasury secretary?

Watching Them Squirm: Is Fox News Abandoning the Mob It Created?

Posted on Nov 7, 2008, Source: AlterNet

A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience.

The New York Times' Biggest Screw-up Since They Sold the War in Iraq

Posted on Oct 28, 2008, Source: The Nation

Deconstructing the NYT fairy tale of the poor innocent small democracy of Georgia attacked by a cruel Cold War Russian monster.

Played Like a Fool: Campaign Manager Cashes in on McCain's Cold War Mentality

Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: The Nation

He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's advisers have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions and made good money on the side.

Bankrupt AIG Underwrote McCain's 'Reform Institute'

Posted on Sep 21, 2008, Source: TheNation.com

John McCain's critical of the bailout of AIG. But it turns out the insurance giant is one of the largest donors to his pet think tank.

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