Last week, more than 550 groups, representing tens of millions of individual members, signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to vote against a push by President Obama for 'fast track' authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a so-called "free trade" now under negotation between the U.S. and eleven other Pacific rim nations.
Wisconsin is the latest state to line up behind a national effort to amend the Constitution and cripple the federal government's ability to spend, apparently with the ultimate goal of completely overhauling America's system of governance.
Newly-unsealed court documents and media leaks add to a growing body of evidence that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s campaign is at the center of a wide-ranging secret probe into campaign finance violations during the state's contentious 2011 and 2012 recall elections.
So the weather is 20 below, we are Wisconsin! We hope you will join the Center for Media and Democracy, the Progressive Magazine, WORT-FM, Common Cause and other Madison friends for two terrific evenings at Madison's historic Barrymore Theatre.
Congress passed a nearly trillion-dollar omnibus Farm Bill Tuesday after almost three years of debate that one analyst called "fairly epic." This major piece of legislation, which is generally under-covered by the mainstream media, sets farm and food policy for the next five years.
With the financial recovery looking more like the Great Recession, people are turning to the real goods and services of the earth economy.
In a muddled attack on the Center for Media and Democracy and those who are concerned about produce grown in sewage sludge, "The Salt," parroted sewage sludge industry PR and misled readers.
Raw milk was big news in the national media just before Christmas.
Did you see President Obama’s State of the Union? While the President had an optimistic tone, I saw the same theme of giving more power to corporations at the expense of the people.
A secret court ruling in the "John Doe" probe into campaign finance violations during Wisconsin's 2011 and 2012 recall elections could have implications well beyond the investigation -- if news reports from anonymous sources are accurate.
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