The Supreme Court’s seismic January ruling that corporations are free to spend unlimited amounts of their profits to advertise for or against candidates may have been the latest shakeup of campaign finance – but gaping holes already allow corporations to spend enormous sums without leaving a paper trail, a Raw Story investigation has found.
Democracy & Elitism 4: equality, opportunity and leveling up the playing field
Part 4 in a series. Pulitzer- and Emmy-winner William Henry‘s famous polemic, In Defense of Elitism (1994), argues that societies can be ranked along a spectrum with “egalitarianism” on one end and “elitism” […]
$45 billion: a sour-tasting decade of out-of-control political spending
Add up every nickel and dime recorded by the Federal Election Commission and state election commissions in this decade now ending. Result: Americans have given more than $24.2 billion in campaign contributions […]
UN Secretariat knew COP15 wouldn't hit 450ppm CO2, 2°C target
The pledged cuts to carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) won’t be enough to hit the targeted 450 ppm of CO2 thought to be necessary to keep the Earth’s mean […]
Lord Monckton labels climate activists "Hitler youth"
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) hosted a speech by Christopher Lord Monckton, a UK climate disruption denier, at Copenhagen yesterday. According to a report on the event at It’sGettingHotInHere.org, there were only five […]
Trust us – we're smarter than you: climate and Superfreakonomics
Back in 2005, self-described “rogue economist” Steven D. Levitt teamed up with journalist Stephen J. Dubner to write Freakonomics, a book that rose to #2 on the NY Times Nonfiction Bestseller List […]
Game over? Billionaire elites now blatantly rule American politics
What drives a man or a woman to spend millions of dollars — even tens of millions — of his or her own money to get a job that would place the […]
Two very different climate disruption messages
Most people view climate disruption as a horror that we and the generations before us are about to visit upon our children and grandchildren. And there’s a great deal of truth to […]
The medical marijuana memo isn't worth the paper it's printed on
The Obama administration threw a bone to the lunatic, fringe left a few days ago. The memo to federal prosecutors in medical marijuana states has garnered hearty applause from Greenwald and the […]
Insuring the world against climate disruption (Blog Action Day)
Imagine that in a few years you wake up to news reports on the radio that your town is under a flash flood watch. The ground has been so baked by the […]
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