The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to remove limits on how much a person can donate each election cycle represents another giant step toward giving the 1 percent out-sized control of the U.S. political process, as Public Citizen President Robert Weissman told Dennis J…
Category: The Bush-43 Administration
Misguided Honor for Condi Rice
‘We’re All Cheneyites Now’
A Poison Pill for Iran Nuke Talks
Will ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Banks Fail Again?
The Pampered, Delusional Rich
America’s rich, who are consolidating more and more of the nation’s wealth in their own hands and giving less and less back, see themselves as “victims” of class envy, and some billionaires even liken their plight to the Holocaust, a…
Obama Ensnared in Bush’s Abuses
Debating Secrecy vs. a Free Press
The War Activists
WPost’s Anti-Putin ‘Group Think’
Exclusive: In a stunning display of “group think,” virtually the entire Washington Post editorial section was devoted to denunciations of Russian President Putin, especially his “crazy” belief that the U.S. government often ignores international law and applies “the rule of…