WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JOHN KERRY. The new U.S. Secretary of State commits the unpardonable sin of comparing the suffering visited on innocent people at the Boston Marathon with the 2010 Israeli raid and killing of numerous passengers on a “flotilla” of vessels bound with humanitarian aid to breach the Israeli blockage of Gaza. Israeli [...]
Just over a month after an election in which the role of Corporate America in the nation’s governing philosophy played a key role, champions of the “pro-business” and anti-labor agenda are shrugging off defeat with swift action in the heart of the American manufacturing center. Quite literally the home of organized labor in the United [...]
The 2012 election had long been predicted to set new records for money raised and spent during a single political campaign, but updated figures show that the actual money race has blown past expectations and is likely to be the most expensive in American history by nearly $1 billion. The dismantling of national campaign finance [...]
One of the nation’s most prominent organizations ostensibly dedicated to promoting the interests of small business and small business owners is in fact a well-oiled machine taking in substantial secret contributions to lobby on behalf of policies that solely benefit major corporations. “Small businesses” are a favorite subject of election year politicking and a catchall [...]
Eight weeks to go until the November election and the race to raise and spend as much money as corporations and wealthy contributors can part with is already setting new political spending records, charting a pace that goes beyond even the most wild predictions offered at the start of the campaign. From the moment Barack [...]
In the avalanche of money being raised and spent on the 2012 election campaign, from local elections to congressional races to the battle for the White House, the most significant players have turned out to be groups with the innocuous title of “social welfare” organizations that use every tax and campaign finance loophole on the [...]
Already poised to blow out records for the most expensive campaign in American history, the financial stakes attached to the 2012 presidential election were raised to unprecedented levels by a monumental flip-flop from Barack Obama. Having long promised to raise as much as one billion dollars in direct donations to the campaign to win a [...]
LEADING PHYSICIST, LONG A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER, CHANGES HIS TUNE AFTER DOING A STUDY FUNDED BY GLOBAL WARMING DENIER ORGANIZATION. (AP) Richard Muller, biting the hand that fed him, concludes that those claiming significant global warming are indeed right, that the average temperature of the earth has increased by 1.6 degrees since the 1950′s. His [...]
The stage is set for what could be the country’s most expensive election in history next year, with President Obama taking in record sums for his reelection bid and independent conservative groups ready to unleash as much as $440 million to defeat him. The 2008 presidential contest won by Obama, along with congressional races, cost [...]
Barack Obama and his army of wealthy “bundlers” are getting a head start on the purchase of the 2012 presidential election, but conservative financiers looking to beat him next fall aren’t far behind. President Obama’s reelection campaign kicked off in earnest over the last three months, and though the November 2012 general election is still [...]
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