One year on from inauguration and month on from Copenhagen what has happened to our hope that the US would finally act on climate justice?
by Iestyn Davies
Anniversaries come and go.  But none have passed with greater significance to those of us concerned with climate justice than Obama’s first year in office.  In this policy field [...]

by Charley James
Here’s a special note to the Republican Party, its Congressional leadership, fellow-travellers like Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh, big Pharma and the insurance industry as the Senate Finance Committee prepares to debate the public option on Tuesday: Every 12 minutes, you kill a fellow American who doesn’t have access to health [...]

by Denis Campbell
In a firestorm of repudiation against Republican special interest backed ‘Astro-turfing’ (covering over real issues with pretty green carpets) and shouting down Democratic Congress members in boisterous town hall meetings, the just released Gallup National Poll shows only 5 states in the US can be listed as solidly or leaning Republican while 37 [...]

This Time About Cap-And-Trade Costs
by Charley James
Don’t conservatives, ConservaDems, the Republican Party and the rest of the “climate change is a hoax” crowd ever get tired of being wrong?
For several years, business lobbyists along with GOP and other right wing mouthpieces in Congress and on the air have been yowling that the US cannot afford [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Welsh and English blogs were all a-Twitter this week over the latest revelations of Member of Parliament expense claim inconsistencies. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown was raked over the coals for claiming £6,000 in dry cleaning expenses. David Cameron, Tory (Conservative) Prince-in-Waiting was shown in his trademark scowl demanding that all of his [...]

 
by Charley James
Arlen Specter’s stunning announcement that he is changing parties to become a Democrat is merely the latest example of the how the Republic Party is losing its grip on America.
“Since my election in 1980 as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right,” Specter tells reporters, [...]

The desperate have become maniacal. The US Republican Party is well beyond clutching at straws, it is about to disappear underneath the surface of the water for the third time and everyone from Dick Cheney to John Boehner to RNC Chair Michael Steele is desperately clinging to the highest masthead as party leader radio host [...]

 
President Obama is being blamed for causing then disrupting the USA far right Tea Party taxation protests (sponsored by Lipton, the only true winner today?). The protests harkened back to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and appear to be massive duds thudding their way across the country. What was most funny were the fringe [...]

 
Beavis farted, Butthead sniggered, “eh-eh-eh-eh” (or was it the other way around?), and for years they were the signature act of MTV’s counter culture music television revolution. The ultimate rebel against your elders genre of the period and now many of the younger “leaders” of the GOP took its message literally. Today’s Republican Party is [...]

 
- by Charley James
On Today in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech. Appearing on flickering, black-and-white sets across America, his wife seated next to him like the stage prop she’d play for the rest of Nixon’s life, he denied allegations of [...]