Evening Blues Preview 7-23-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 2:22pmThis evening's music features Nashville blues and boogie woogie piano player Cecil Gant.
Stopping Monsanto
Submitted by MarilynW on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 10:08amWow, Bernie in the Appalachians
Submitted by smiley7 on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 9:32amJaw dropping enthusiasm
When I clicked online to Bernie's kick-off site and looked at the rallies planned in these venerable old mountains, my jaw literally dropped and a gasp of air joined my exploding smile.
"My god, this area is deep red." There exist no Democratic representation in DC from any of these isolated areas where the streams flow swift and most livings are made by toiling on the land.
Open Thread 07-23-15
Submitted by JtC on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 8:45amGood morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by John Lennon
Social Security Has Enough Money To Expand Benefits Now, Trustee's Report Shows
Billions are available now and in the near-future.The Social Security Board of Trustees has just released its annual report to Congress. The most important takeaways are that Social Security has a large and growing surplus, and its future cost is fully affordable.
The BLM versus White Progressive Skirmish--aka Primary Wars Redux
Submitted by cybrestrike on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 6:20pmI don't have much time so I'm going to be brief. This was meant to be a comment in another diary on the subject at the GOS, but I've decided to put this out here on its own.
This all, to me, seems as it's a Sanders versus Clinton proxy war, with genuine anger and sympathy for the fucked up situation that Sommer Foster had to deal with. I feel horrible for the bullying that she had to endure. No one should have to endure that. No one.
Monumental Video of the Tar Sands
Submitted by MarilynW on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 5:41pmthey cover an area larger than England
in other news, The Obama administration has given the go ahead for Shell to drill in the arctic.
How the War on Drugs defeated the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 3:19pmAfghanistan has cornered the global market in opium production, producing 90% of the world's opium on 780 square miles of opium fields.
Evening Blues Preview 7-22-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 2:31pmThis evening's music features soul and jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron and Motown legend Marvin Gaye.
Open Thread - Wednesday July 22,2015
Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 7:00amI have been on the road again for nearly the past week, dealing with some family business out of state and have not had time to really stay up to snuff on all the news lately. For today's Open Thread, I thought I would write about something I read Monday.
Evening Blues Preview 7-21-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 07/21/2015 - 3:14pmThis evening's music features r&b piano player Amos Milburn.
