AlterNet: Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?

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Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?
http://www.alternet.org/story/144697

What can teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?
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“Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years”

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“Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years”

"... serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch."— In praise of... Wikileaks -The Guardian, October 20, 2009

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Some of the Organizations that support WikiLeak are:

What do these organizations have in common?

1. Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
2. The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
3. The Associated Press - world wide news agency, based in New York
4. Citizen Media Law Project - Harvard university
5. The E.W Scripps Company - newspapers, TV, cable TV etc.
6. Gannet Co. Inc - the largest publisher of newspapers in the U SA, including USA Today
7. The Hearst Corporation - media conglomerate which publishes the San Francisco Chronicle
8. The Los Angeles Times
9. National Newspaper Association (NNA)
10. Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
11. The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
12. The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
13. Public Citizen - founded by Ralph Nader
14. together with the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC)
15. The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)
16. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
17. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade by Juan Cole

If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst of times. They are driven by pure greed and narrow profit-seeking for themselves. It is the alliance of the Neoliberal super-rich with the new lower middle class populists led by W. and now by Sarah Palin that produces clown politics in the US. They are the ones who didn't want a public universal health option, did not want the wars abroad to end abruptly, did not want the Copenhagen Climate convention to succeed. They are driven by pure greed and narrow profit-seeking for themselves. They always get their way, and they always will as long as you poor stupid bastards buy the line that when the government raises their taxes, it is taking something away from you.

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