In 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations are people and money is speech, opening the flood gates for corporations and plutocrats to spend unlimited amounts of outside money to influence elections and threaten politicians. An immediate result was millionaire Art Pope spending millions to engineer the Republican take over […]
It is clear that the so called “business and financial elites” have a stranglehold on our economy, government and political system, if not our minds. The current shutdown of the government can be traced back to lobbying groups such as the US Chamber of Commerce and the billionaires who fund the Tea Party through […]
In 2012 John Delaney (D) got elected to fill the new Maryland 6th district US Congressional seat which was created as a result of gerrymandering by Democrats in Maryland. The newly created district was carved out of Congresswoman Donna Edwards’ 4th district seat, a progressive Democrat who did not toe the line set by […]
As I have written and commented on for more than a year, The Lumina Foundation has been selected for some time as the wrecking ball against the public commons, especially in terms of higher ed. Lumina is the kitechn cabinet of the Department of Education under Obama and the new Race to the Top for […]
Race to the Top is not a national problem or a national opportunity. It is a world plan by developing nations and the plutocrats and functionaries to turn the whole squalid mess that is called ‘schooling under capitalism’ over to testing regimes. ‘Testing Ministers’ will be next. All of this is clothed as helping ‘disadvantaged […]
Picture of George W. Bush’s niece, Lauren Bush, who was married to fashion icon Ralph Lauren’s son, David, back in August of 2011 at the Ralph Lauren Ranch RALPH LAUREN The Ralph Lauren Company recently admitted to criminally violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, related to a subsidiary bribing customs officials in Argentina over a five year period. […]