March 23, 2018 by Common Dreams “We will be marching this Saturday for those that we loved and lost, and we write this in the hope that no other community or publication will ever have to do the same.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer “We are firsthand witnesses to the kind… Continue reading
March 23, 2018 by Common Dreams Medicare for all is what the Pentagon does. It is what President Harry Truman wanted from Congress back in the nineteen forties. It is time. by Ralph Nader “The campaigns that exist today are receiving too little on-the-ground assistance for such a widely-supported issue.” (Photo: National… Continue reading
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to… Continue reading
By Ellen McGrody Feb 25, 2018 (thebaycitybeacon.com) Mayor Mark Farrell and Senator Scott Wiener at a Shared Schoolyards opening. Proposed network would be fast, open, and provide explicit protections for user privacy and net neutrality. This week, the San Francisco Municipal Fiber Blue Ribbon Board released a report recommending a… Continue reading
What to expect from Saturday’s rallies for gun control By Brock Keeling@BrockKeeling Mar 22, 2018 Sandy Shieh, a student at San Francisco’s Lincoln High School, holds a sign during a rally and march against gun violence at the Civic Center Plaza. Photo by AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Hundreds of thousands of people… Continue reading
Please share. This is not a solution. This is a future problem. They do not care for their clients in their nursing home, do you really think they will care for the homeless? –Mike Zint First they came for the homeless added 11 new photos. March 22, 2018 From two emails. The… Continue reading
U.S. Postal Service truck. (Alexander Marks / Wikimedia) March 16, 2018 (trhtudig.com) By Ellen Brown The U.S. banking establishment has been at war with the post office since at least 1910, when the Postal Savings Bank Act established a public savings alternative to a private banking system that had crashed the… Continue reading
BY EMILY CADEI (sacbee.com) ecadei@mcclatchydc.com February 26, 2018 Nancy Pelosi is the most right-wing candidate in her reelection race this year. The House Democratic leader faces not one, but three, Democratic challengers in 2018, as well as a Green Party candidate. And while national Republicans love to target Pelosi as… Continue reading
Greg Palast Published on Mar 18, 2018 The dark art of dynamic psychometric manipulation in politics was not pioneered by Cambridge Analytica for Donald Trump, but by organizations such as i360 Themis, founded by the Koch brothers, and Data Trust, Karl Rove’s data mining operation. For more on i360 and… Continue reading
March 19, 2018 by Common Dreams “My friends tell me it is dangerous to criticize the Russian government the same as I criticize my own. But each of us are given a limited number of days to make a difference. Life is a choice to live for something, or to die… Continue reading
