This Week, Let's Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff
We have just a week left to help Burlington, Vermont kill the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the biggest taxpayer ripoff in human history. On Monday, October 7, the Burlington City Council will vote on a...
View ArticleKeep Your Promise: A Left-Right Coalition to Help Veterans and Cut the Debt
There is wide political agreement that we need to do more to support our veterans and their families. A recent spectacular demonstration was the 326-90 vote in the House and 95-3 vote in the Senate to...
View ArticleWarren and Sanders: Missing Voices for Iran Diplomacy?
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are increasingly seen as leaders of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, largely as a result of being the most...
View ArticleDec 29: Join our petition drop at the Burlington office of Sen. Bernie Sanders!
On Monday, December 29, at noon, I’m going to be delivering petitions from Vermont residents to Senator Sanders’ Burlington office, urging him to speak up now in favor of diplomacy with Iran. If you...
View ArticleProfiles in Courage: 38 Dems Publicly Break With Netanyahu's War Polemic
A recent CNN poll found that four out of five Democratic voters oppose the Israeli Prime Minister's planned March 3 tirade to Congress against diplomacy. Thursday morning, twenty-three House Democrats...
View ArticleNYT: Taxing Wealthy & Cutting Pentagon Make Sanders "Unelectable"
On Sunday, in the course of an article about Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders attracting huge crowds in Iowa, the New York Times told us thatread more
View ArticleHow Bernie Sanders Can Kill the 1%'s TPP Trade Deal
The DC press says it's getting down to the wire on a possible vote in the House on fast track to substantially pre-approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other pending trade deals, with a vote...
View ArticleLet's Celebrate a Fast Track Defeat National Day of Gloating
Let me be perfectly clear, as President Obama might say. I'm not claiming that fast track trade negotiating authority is defeated for now. Unlike some people, I do care what Mama Don't Allow.But...
View ArticleTPP: No To Post-Election "Etch-a-Sketch"
In an interview from Davos with Bloomberg TV on January 20, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, a top lobbyist for the pro-corporate-power Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement, assured...
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