Though this year’s list of Academy Award-nominated documentaries is one of the strongest they’ve had in years, I’m hoping to see the award for feature-length documentary go to Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (along with the short doc category award going to my good friends Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert for their film […]

Another commie liberal attacking America’s true economic achievers…

Warren Buffett’s Statement to Congress on Estate Taxes
Mr. Chairman, Senators, I appreciate the opportunity to express a few views on the estate tax.
I will limit my remarks to three points.
The first relates to the intellectual dishonesty employed by those who use the phrase ‘death tax.’ This term […]

Great to see this issue get such direct reference and dissection via a national media platform. It is unfortunately becoming of even more relevance these days, what with the Supreme Court ruling giving corporations nearly unlimited carte blanche rights to purchase the American political process.
“Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to […]

Sunday talk show pundit and syndicated columnist George Will outdoes himself with this stellar performance in the service of the governing (and owning…same thing) elites of America.

“Now, some people are saying, oh, corporations, that means Microsoft will be buying ads. Microsoft’s trying to sell software. They’re not interested in getting into political fights.”

Well, in a […]

A video on the Supreme Court ruling granting corporations unfettered access to our political system, and for organizing a movement for a Constitutional amendment to counter the egregious growth of corporate dominance over our political system.

On a day America honors the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., this is one of his speeches most likely not to be quoted or referenced by our politicos or by many, if any, members of the punditocracy.
Delivered in NYC on April 4, 1967, King delivers a cogent analysis as to our responsibility […]

These people have clearly had enough. Amazing footage of protesters surrounding and swallowing up members of the paramilitary Basij militia, who operate under the direction of the Ayatollahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. It seems Iran is likely descending into full-fledged police state soon. A sure sign that the regime will eventually fall, and […]

UnCommon Sense TV - “Media Bill of Rights” An overview on the “Bill of Media Rights” as promoted and advanced by a large coalition of organizations and activists working towards a more democratic media system. The program includes a point-by-point description of the principles inherent in it and required for a media […]

ThinkProgress spoke with Wendell Potter, a former VP of communications at health insurance giant CIGNA, about exactly how insurance companies derail reform and preserve the status quo. Working in public relations for CIGNA, Potter had a direct role in multiple campaigns in the past to minimize public outrage at insurance company abuses, defeat legislation aimed […]