Fighting corporate power since 1776

Boston Tea Party engraving

The Boston Tea Party, claims liberal talk radio host Thom Hartmann, wasn’t really a protest against higher taxes and unrepresentative government. Instead, its target was the excessive power of a large corporation — the British East India Company. In Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became “People” — and How You Can Fight Back Hartmann explains that, [...]

Will the Transition movement be the Tea Party’s next target?

Tea Party protester with a sign

Could Rob Hopkins become the US right wing’s next Van Jones? Could the Post Carbon Institute become the next ACORN? Thanks to Rob Hopkins for sending around a silly Tea Party video attacking the Transition movement. It features Rob himself along with PCI as part of a United Nations plot to “take away your land.” [...]

Atlas bombed: Right-wing think tanks betray ignorance on energy

Atlas Shrugged movie still

I want to get this review out fast, because, by the time you read it, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, which came out in mid-April, may already have left the theaters. Critics have roundly panned the movie version of free-market goddess Ayn Rand‘s 1957 novel for weak acting by B-list actors and a script with dialogue [...]

In peak oil, we can afford unions more than billionaires

Addicted to Koch sign at Richmond rally

On Saturday, my wife and I drove up to Thomas Jefferson’s capitol building in Richmond to join in on Virginia’s state rally of support for the public workers in Wisconsin. We know that peak oil is here and that it’s probably the biggest single cause for the Great Recession. We just don’t think that a [...]