Weekly Audit: Government Shutdown Averted, But At What Cost?
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: Cost-Cutting at the Environment's Peril
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger In Washington, the environment is under attack. The cost-cutting deal that the House passed yesterday stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of $1.6...
View ArticleThe Wavelength: The Battle Over Net Neutrality Rages On
By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Four months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supposedly settled the issue, the battle over Net Neutrality is still raging. If anything,...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to IRS statistics, the nation’s top 400 taxpayers...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ[/youtube] How will the next generation of seniors pay for health care if Republicans privatize...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: One Year After the BP Oil Spill, None the Wiser
By Megan Hagist, Media Consortium blogger One year after the worst oil spill in U.S. history began, key questions about its environmental impact remain unanswered. The 4.9 million barrels of BP oil...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: Single-Payer Bills Pass Vermont Senate, House
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The Vermont state Senate passed legislation to create a single-payer health insurance system, Paul Waldman reports for TAPPED. Since the state House has...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: The Closing Bell
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger This week marks the final edition of the Weekly Audit. It has been a pleasure compiling the best financial and economic writing in the Media Consortium....
View ArticleL.A. PROTECTS HOMEOWNERS, WHILE OBAMA WON'T !
Los Angeles sues Deutsche Bank for slumlord practices and contributing to the foreclosure problem. Kevin Drum of Mother Jones cites that Obama's Hamp; ( mortgage modification program ), has not only...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: House Republicans Push for Renewed Offshore Drilling
Ed. note: This is the final edition of the Mulch. To keep up with the best environmental coverage the progressive media has to offer, follow The Media Consortium on Twitter or connect with us on...
View ArticleFrom Nixon’s plumbers to James O’Keefe’s video smears: How political lying...
IT TAKES TWO THINGS to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it. The former has always been with us:...
View ArticleCould History Repeat? We're Moving That Way
Rockefeller fires on strikers in Ludlow - a two-minute history lesson. added by: Swisher 1 comment
View ArticleThe Education of Michele Bachmann from Mother Jones Magazine
In-depth insight into one of the Republican Candidates for the 2012 Presidential Elections. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/michele-bachmann-edwatch?page=1 added by: passionrock 0 comments
View ArticleRep. Ryan Quiet on His Own Medicare Plan — By David Corn| Mon Jul. 11, 2011...
He just can't seem to help himself. He lies in print,in the media and to the American Public! added by: passionrock 0 comments
View ArticleUnderstanding Obama ? It's Besides The Point !
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones is attempting to explain Obama's strategies and positions. Granted, while he may be playing to the middle, that will not effectively undo the damage that the extreme...
View ArticleNorth America's Tar Sands: The New Middle East
While Tom Dispatch and Mother Jones prognosticates the details of the struggle to stop the further earth heating burning of fossil fuels, it seems inevitable that people will have to suffer sufficient...
View ArticleThe 51 Percent Zombie Lie, Fox's Lie !
Despite Fox's propaganda that half the country doesn't pay taxes, this chart reveals that we all pay taxes. http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/07/51-zombie-lie added by:...
View ArticleListen to Mother: Radical Leftist or Feds’ BFF?
FOR A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER 2008, as the Republican Party kicked off its national convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Twin Cities were a microcosm of a deeply divided nation. The atmosphere around...
View Article"Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar" - The 2012 elections, "the mother...
Today, Bradblog’s Brad Friedman reports for Mother Jones about a secret meeting that the right-wing oil billionaire Koch brothers held at a Colorado resort in June with hundreds of wealthy donors who...
View ArticleCrock the Vote
In case you haven’t heard, the 2012 presidential election is already over and the Republicans stole it. Both Rolling Stone and Mother Jones report this week that those wascally Wepublicans have...
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