Thank You for Standing Up By Chris Hedges (about the author) January 23, 2012 opednews.com This article cross-posted from Truthdig I spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for “disturbing the peace” and “refusing to obey a lawful order” More
David Cobb - 'Citizens united' Doesn't Fly in Big Sky State [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5CuvMNFnsc&w=420&h=315] Thom Hartmann talks with David Cobb, Spokesperson-Move to Amend / Attorney / National Projects Director-Democracy Unlimited, about Montana's Supreme Court issuing a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to More
The Citizens United Era: How the Supreme Court Continues to Put Business First PFAW.org A new People For the American Way Foundation report examines how the Supreme Court's conservative majority is working to reshape our Constitution and elevate corporate interests above the rights of individual Americans. Beginning with the 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the Roberts More
America in Decline by Noam Chomsky Nation of Change OpEd Published: Friday 5 August 2011 “What remains of political democracy has been undermined further as both parties have turned to auctioning congressional leadership positions.” “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world More
