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Presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday released a plan to protect independent news outlets and journalists from the effects of widespread media consolidation.Sanders, decrying the mega-mergers he says have led to a handful of large corporations acting as gatekeepers for the information most Americans receive, calls for concrete steps “to rebuild and protect a diverse and truly independent press so that real journalists can do the critical jobs that they love” in an...

This Labor Day, Our Money will gather 500 participants to host a march for Full Employment and Economic Justice in commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement legacy of advocacy for a Federal Job Guarantee. The march will begin at the MLK Memorial in Washington DC at 11 am and end at the Marriner Eccles Building of the Federal Reserve around 2 pm.  Our Money founder, Rev. Dr. Delman Coates, will use this opportunity to draw the connection for lay audiences between the Civil Rights struggle...

I am purposefully avoiding overtly political stuff now that we are in the throes of another campaign.However, when one faction of the country sees the other faction as fascist and names it, political discourse has descended about as far as it can go in that direction other than upping the amps.The opposite extreme when one side sees the others a socialist and even communist, political discourse has descended about as far as it can go in that direction other than upping the amps.This is a...

Pretty funny, and very apt. Tulsi is the only foreign policy realist that is running against endless, so far at least.Duffel BlogMaj. Tulsi Gabbard receives surprise deployment orders to Antarctica [satire] Yossarian

I don't think that this quite correct. John Bolton is the frontman in the administration for casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a rabid supporter of Zionism and a major contributor to Trump's political campaign. It is not an exaggeration to say that Trump owes his 2016 victory in large part to Adelson's legal bribery.OK, course, Trump gave no quid pro quo for the funding, so it is not bribery in the legal sense. However, anyone who thinks that political contributions, especially large ones,...

The Democratic primary season is upon us, and the party’s candidate list is a useful starting point for assessing the impact of affluence on American politics. Classic works by sociologists of decades past, including C. Wright Mills and G. William Domhoff, posited that U.S. political institutions were captured by elite economic actors, who seek to enhance their own material positions at the expense of the many.... "Class" is a technical term in sociology. It is synonymous with "social...

Happy Independence Day as America celebrates with a military parade in the capital city.If vigilance is the price of freedom, Americans need to wake up and stand up as the vise jaws close.This Can't Be HappeningUS is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home Dave LindorffSee alsoThe Rutherford InsitituteIt’s Time to Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America John W. WhiteheadAlsoAlterNetTrue patriots are rebels, not bootlickers Meteor Blades

MMT.The WEEKThe 1 question journalists should stop asking 2020 Democrats Jeff Spross

While Trump has too often accommodated this hive of neocons, his recent statements and repeated calls for cooperation with Russia and China demonstrate a sound push back which should be taken very seriously. In that Fox interview Trump said: “With all of everything that’s going on, and I’m not one that believes—you know, I’m not somebody that wants to go in to war, because war hurts economies, war kills people, most importantly—by far most importantly.”You know, in Syria, with the...

Orwellian indeed. Evidence-free "truth" — when evidence suggests otherwise. Only this is not fiction.Consortium NewsOrwellian Cloud Hovers Over Russia-gate Ray McGovern, CIA analyst for 27 years, with special expertise on Russia, and prepared The President’s Daily Brieffor Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)See alsoSic Semper Tyrannis The Malevolent Farce that is Mueller and the Russia Hoax Larry C Johnson, former CIA...