http://www.ustvmedia.org Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:44:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is one of the best, most concise, explanations I've ever read on how Wall Street banking firms are controlling the economy. Ellen Hodgson Brown describes an ongoing drama between Wall Street and Washington that gets next to zero coverage in the corporate press, and lays lie to the ongoing ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/politics-in-america/2010/02/07/battle-between-jpmorgan-vs-goldman-sachs-and-the-mythology-of-the-free-market/ Thomas Linzey, who co-wrote this article, does some great work with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and the Democracy Schools. I would definitely recommend anyone and everyone interested in furthering one's understanding of how and why we have reached this current situation in our nation's political environment, and ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/corporate-democracy-and-usa-inc/2010/02/01/whose-rights-challenging-corporate-power/ 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 ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/corporate-democracy-and-usa-inc/2010/01/31/let-freedom-ka-ching-colbert-on-protecting-rights-for-corporations/ 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 ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/corporate-democracy-and-usa-inc/2010/01/30/george-will-corporations-have-no-interest-in-political-fights-and-campaign-donations-dont-determine-votes/ Spot on analysis from Ruth Marcus... In opening the floodgates for corporate money in election campaigns, the Supreme Court did not simply engage in a brazen power grab. It did so in an opinion stunning in its intellectual dishonesty. --------------- “If it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/the-judicial-system-and-the-courts/2010/01/28/the-supreme-courts-shoddy-scholarship/ 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. http://www.ustvmedia.org/corporate-democracy-and-usa-inc/2010/01/27/free-speech-is-for-people/ New Coalition Responds to Citizens United Decision with a Call to Amend the U.S. Constitution to Overrule the Supreme Court's Activist Expansion of Corporate "Rights" Contact: (202) 642-1848 or additional coalition contacts below www.MovetoAmend.org Washington, DC - After justices on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of corporate "rights" in the Citizens ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/the-judicial-system-and-the-courts/2010/01/25/supreme-court-decision-a-pearl-harbor-for-american-democracy/ http://www.ustvmedia.org/propaganda-and-faux-news/2010/01/23/on-corporate-propaganda-the-american-constitution/ How many more times does this have to be explained? The real central message in the film ["Capitalism: A Love Story"], and the one we should all be sharing around on Facebook, is that democracy and capitalism are NOT the same thing. We have suffered for the past eight years under ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/politics-in-america/2010/01/21/democracy-and-capitalism-are-not-one-and-the-same/ 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 ... http://www.ustvmedia.org/what-is-patriotism/2010/01/18/mlk-on-breaking-the-silence-and-moving-beyond-war/